[Closed] 100 miles a day for 31 days?

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I've done it for 10 days. I reckon it gets easier after a few days. Easy to pick up a long-term injury though, and I'd not like to try to fit it around the rest of my life.

Best of luck big man, I reckon the miles you do for the years you've done it for, you'll be fine.

👌🏻

work have told me i can have a month off to do it, as a gift for my 20 years service.

and i may be camping............  ;o)

Fantastic! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Tony, thats ace...will be tough but awesome

Speak to Chris Hall (chrishallrides on Instagram) he did 107km every day for 107 days for charity. Ok he’s fit, but he found it tough.

If it was anyone else I'd say it was just an excuse to buy a new bike 😂

My personal view is that it sound like a tedious waste of holiday.

BUT, it does also sound damned difficult, so I'd give you a huge amount of respect if you managed it.

My personal view is that it sound like a tedious waste of holiday.

a months paid touring a waste?     you must be pissed......... ;o)

Is this a big organised event, Ton, or something you're planning as an individual?

Is this a big organised event, Ton, or something you’re planning as an individual?

just me love.    unless i can convince anyone else

Great idea mate. What an adventure!

Even just on Zwift it would kill me.lol

Keep us updated. If you tour that would be great. Doing a local 100 every day would get pretty boring I would think?

Well, maybe you could think of a challenge which catches the imagination a bit more than "a months paid touring" (your own words, but it might look like just a holiday to non-cyclists).

So how about 10 days of 10 different challenges? That will still raise the same amount of money.  And leave you with 3 weeks for a fabulous touring holiday!

I'm sure STW can help think up some suitable challenges for you . . .

What’s the charity and are you planning a leg in the Cotswold’s?

a months paid touring a waste?

Doh.  I didn't realise you'd be touring.  For some stupid reason I thought you were planning on doing a ton from home each day.

I stand fully corrected.  It sounds like a fab idea (and damn difficult )

Go for it.

Thinks... where's 3,100 miles away....

Istanbul and half way back 🙂

Goodness. that'll teach me to judge other people by my own low standards 🙂

A ton a day sounds bloody daunting for me! I managed to break through 300 miles and 20000 feet of climbing during a week of annual leave mid summer, what started as a just for fun challenge became mental and physical torture by the Sunday, when I still had ~25 miles and ~1500 feet left... I was completely drained after the final ride.

And you want to do more than double that? I'll give the men in white coats a call. 😉

If you go ahead with it - post your route on here and I'm sure you'll get lots of volunteers to ride along with you for a leg or two. Sounds like an immense challenge to me.

I'm currently putting together a 1000km in 6.5 days London-Harwich-Amsterdam-Brugge-Paris-Dieppe-London ride for May next year.

I'm a bit daunted by the prospect of 100 miles a day for 6 days, so good on you. I think it will be an amazing feat to complete it.

Sounds great. Bloody hard work but great 🙂

fuk that

happy to join you for a day if you are riding near me. tough challenge but think of all the beer & pies you'll be refuelling with 😆

I'd be doing a slow Tour Divide if it were me. 100 miles a day for 27 days and then ride to Phoenix airport (400 miles) for the flight home. 3100 miles and by no means a death march.

ton

...but for a hefty overweight 50 something, this would be a tough old challenge.

Might be tough, but you won't be overweight for long... 🙂

Have you tried doing a few century days back to back before? If not might be worth doing it.

I always reckoned day 2 was the worst, but after that you get a rhythm and it's "easier".

If it's a tour and you've actually got places to go, things to see and a destination each day it's less irksome than just going out and riding 100 miles a day for the sake of it.

Personally I hate those "ride at least 1hr a day for a month" type challenges as it turns what should be a fun activity into something you *have* to do. But doing it as a trip is much more enjoyable although if I was doing it for that length of time I'd choose somewhere warm and sunny to do it!

A UK Tour of 100 miles / day for 31 days is enough to do a double LEJOG so it's a fair amount of road you'll have to plan in!

More thoughts;

Camping sounds great and gives the ultimate flexibility in stopping, avoiding the need to pre-book accommodation. However that's extra weight you will need to carry, you are more exposed to the vagaries of the westher, you may not sleep as well and you could waste a lot of time finding a suitable pitch each night.

Fuelling your body will take a while too so you need to consider eating time in your schedule.

Would it be at least 100 miles per day or are you aiming for 3100 miles over 31 days? The latter would give you much more flexibility in route planning.

My recent longer rides I've averaged 10mph - that's including meal/pee stops etc. 10 hours per day on a bike. Gives 14 hours recovery, less if you are repeatedly stopping to look at stuff, take photos etc. I reckon you'd be averaging more once you get past day 3.

Even route finding can slow you down. A good GPS will minimise that faff.

Great idea Tony. There are no problems only challenges mate, would love to have the time to do something like that myself, sounds a fantastic adventure.

its definitely a big ask especially fully loaded if camping and unsupported so consider terrain and elevation as well as head winds.   What I’ve gathered from reading books on the tour divide and round the world tours is that you will basically cycle yourself fit as you go so it’s mainly a case of getting the bike fit spot on and taking care of yourself (your arse in particular as others have stated). May the force be with you and look forward to reading up on your progress.

I nearly broke my wife on our tandem dash to the south of France this spring - 860 miles in ten days, having places pre-booked & avoiding hills was a godsend. Recon 100miles per day camping is a pretty tough call - good luck with it.

Best try a few 100's as suggested, figure you may have done this already? I have not done 100M for a while, but did a little tour this year at 100km easier but still consider logistics, map reading, hills, heat (if you cycle spain/france, not UK!) and also head winds, caught me out second day.

As mentioned above camping allows choice, where as bnb gives a target, but less flexibility. I have not found perfect match for touring, but maybe that is the way, some rides better than others. What I found this time is that my local rides near home are easy as you know the route, you know the hills and where to get a coffee, etc, elsewhere takes more time and effort.

Planning is also fun as you can do it from the sofa;) Good luck and Enjoy.

Rome and back?

Did half that (which was 100m a day for 14 days) a few years ago.  Mostly flat (it was from work to Rome, so sort of following EV5). But, in a group with our bags carried so much easier.

Possible pitfalls: headwinds, injury, loneliness.

Possible benefits: tailwinds, fitness, solitude.

I completed mine and don't regret doing it despite picking up an injury half way through which has never really ever fixed properly.  It reminds me of the achievement.

Sounds easy on paper. The actual reality, when you're fully loaded, carrying camping gear...I'd generally consider myself quite fit, but it's tough going, and I've only ever done it over a couple of weeks.

Expect early starts and late finishes. The benefits of camping and being fully self sufficient is that you can just push on and ride until dark on the days you feel good. Expect half of the campsites to be closed by the time you get there...

I'm all for it. I don't agree that it's a waste of time. You see loads of stuff (although you will have very little time to stop), but the challenge makes it into a real adventure, which you'll remember for a long time. You'll have some really good days, and some really bad ones.

Unless your fitness is good, I'd consider dropping to 70 or 80. And it obviously depends on terrain too. Start gentle and work your way into it, and never go crazy hitting climbs hard or trying to make up time. Your body will thank you for it.

Ton - Scotsroutes makes some very salient points above re, route, ave speed, finding somewhere to stop overnight, etc.

I have done a few 100+ mile rides back to back and IMHO don't under estimate the fatigue from long multiple days in the saddle.

I would respectively suggest that you undertake a few test days riding 100 miles back to back to see how your body reacts, IMHO part of the trick on long rides is finding out what foods your body will accept when it's under severe pressure, for me that's jam donuts, buttered T-cakes, individual small pork pies, crispy bacon rolls/sandwich, salty crisps, etc - I tend to alternate between something sweet then something savoury. I also use SIS tablets in my water bottle this stops cramps both during the ride & during the night.

Ride a bike that is very comfortable for long rides is essential together with some padded gloves & shorts, I never use to wear padded shorts on road rides but now on longer rides 75+ miles they are a Godsend together with butt cream 😉  Pick your route well, no point in beasting your self up lots of hills if you can avoid them.

Riding 31 days doing 100 miles each day is an enormous ask, I wish you well 🙂

thanks for all the replies everyone.

the idea behind the camping thing was to just ride 100 miles and sleep as near to where that is, without having to then find my obviously pre booked digs.

doing it that way i would not have to be too strict with the route planning.

also, i would not be carrying a lot of camping gear, a small tent a mat and a bag would do. no cooking stuff, food would be bought along the way.

the route would be a visit to the four corners of the uk, lands end, jog, cape wrath and somewhere in kent.

it wont be until may. so plenty of time to fine tune stuff.

this is not a deffo, but something will be.

How’s about 100<i>kms</i> a day?

still a decent challenge

But a bit more realistic perhaps...

Ton.

When you have a plan and route sorted ,fire it up here.

I would be up for keeping you company on a north of the border 100 section.

Disclaimer...this may mean that you would end up listening to a complete muppet wittering on for hours. 😉

Hard graft I reckon mate, good luck to you.

Good luck to you, sounds great if bloody hard work. If you found yourself anywhere near mine at the end of the day you would be welcome to a bed for the night and a hot bath at short notice. (Nethy)

Time of year wi'll make a massive difference.  When do you intend to start?

Sounds like an amazing thing to take on. If at any point between "somewhere in Kent" and JOG you find yourself in East Northants you're welcome to a brew and food, a bed and a riding mate for a day if it hits a weekend/school holiday.

Spare room in York. And a garage for t’bike.

Not that that is anything like 100 miles from your home of course, but if the logistics works out the offer is there.

Was going to say same as Metalheart go metric 100kms a day time for pub lunches and cafe stops converted to 31 days and back to imperial just short of a 2000mile trip so a handful of longer days would make that number

Whatever enjoy

I went to a talk by Steve Abraham earlier this year.  Amongst lots of other interesting stuff, he mentioned tyres.  He used Schwalbe Ones, tubeless.  In 150,000 miles he had only 3 occasions when he had to take one off to fix it.  My jaw almost actually dropped.  Not sure what the equivalent would be for touring.

I'm based in Sussex, so probably handy for joining your for part of the lands end to Kent section.

Also willing to offer advice on hill avoidance and cafe hunting in the area.

I've been getting into multi-day trips, recently, but nothing quite as epic as your plans

I personally think you should scale back the camping element and throw in a proper bed every couple of days.

Travel lodges/YHA/Premier Inn can be very cheap if you book in advance, and you'll be glad of a bath/nice bed after a couple of 100 mile days back-to-back.