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’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

The riding itself it actually the easy part so long as you know where you’re going and know how to pace yourself.

As @freeagent alludes to above, it’s the logistics that gets most people on long tours like that – finding a campsite, washing, showering, eating, ensuring sufficient food / water reserves. The thing about a proper bed is excellent advice.

Go through booking.com and you can get free cancellation up to 24hrs in advance so if plans change, you’re not going to make it to [location] etc you can just cancel with no penalties. Similarly it’s a very useful tool if you get to a [location], decide you can’t go any further, it’s raining, you’re soaked and you can just get your phone out and find a place. I’ve done that a couple of times and a friend relied almost entirely on that approach to finding accommodation during TransCon. A bit more expensive on occasions but often hotels / B&Bs are happy to fill spare rooms.

That’s Land’s End to John O’Groats three times. Massive challenge.

Attempted JOGLE a few years ago as an overweight but reasonably fit mid 30s regular biker. 6 months intense training saw me as fit as I’d ever been but still not fit enough.

By day 3 or 4 I was in trouble with injuries, the group was going too fast and should have split early on every day (the 100+ mile leg from Inverness to Glasgow was done at a 20+ average). By day 5 I was pedalling with one leg to get to the hostel, day 6 I climbed off the bike as I was pushing up hills unable to put weight on my right leg. It really, really hurt quitting especially with a lot of sponsorship behind me. Not really got back into road biking since.

Even slowing it down there will be days where everything will hurt. The slower guys in our group needed an easy day on day 9, they slowed it down even more, lost the support van, missed dinner and had to get rescued as it got dark (they went back to where they climbed off the next day).

We stayed in hostels most nights, the day after a rubbish night sleep due to a snorer is awful. The weather was glorious for us but self-supported you’re not going to have down days to wash and dry your kit.

I’d honestly say it sounds like you’re setting your sights very, very high. If you’re going for it I’d recommend at least a year of training with multiple back to back 100s. I missed that, did a few 100+ rides but never followed up with a long day in the saddle the next day, would have gone out on the mtb or something.

Try riding 10 miles a day (or increase depending how fit you are), every day for a month. It’s more difficult than it sounds when you’re legs are tired and you get a couple of days with stinking weather. Hitting that many miles in a month isn’t difficult but the commitment to climb on your bike every day no matter what is very difficult.

Keeping from getting ill during a month of being totally run down will be tough too.

If you do go for it good luck! Sorry for the negativity, just from personal experience I’d say it’s one for someone super fit to start with…

With no commitments and a month free I’d be packing a touring bike and gear and heading somewhere warm that would be interesting to explore to pedal round and enjoy without putting the pressure on for hitting mileage targets. Actually that’s not true, I’d be packing the van up with road and mountain bikes and setting up in the Alps for a month. That would be a superb month off 🙂

100km a day would be much more achievable. We’ve done some rides in France and Italy carrying kit and doing back to back 100 mile days loaded up is tough for a mortal.

Bed and stuff in West Berks, I’ll even do a day riding with you if you want…. I won’t be doing the day after though !

Massive massive task that ..

That would be well impressive.  Big target, as plenty have said.

You could save yourself 100 miles by doing it in April, June or September, though.

Whilst it is good to have targets, at the end of the day you have to enjoy it too, so rather than saying i am going to do x miles in y days, set yourself the target of riding from one to place to another and enjoy it, some days you’ll be able to out a big day in, but all it takes is a day of hard rain, or a day where you have to wait an hour for a shop to open and you’re left chasing your tail to reach your target.

I’ve done 7 days of back to back 100 milers and it is do-able for someone of average fitness like me, but if you are touring the idea is that it is tough, but it also has to be memorable rather than spent with your head down and staring at your stem “getting the miles in”

Hire a campervan/motorhome and have the Missus meet you at the end of each day, for lunch etc.

@ton – could you do a 100m/100km routine to save the body & mind?

You’d still be doing a “century” each day. It might help you recover knowing that after a tough 100m you’ve “only” got 100km the next day.

What about a ride of 3000 miles covered in a month rather than a ton a day?

There is some good advice here – i’d not get too fixated an exactly 100 miles per day – 80 Hilly miles in the Peaks is so much harder than 120 miles of flat/rolling South coast coastal route.

I’d try and look at an average of 1000 miles every 10 days..

+1 for a frame bag/seat pack, for 2 reasons

1: you will carry less crap (by necessity)

2: it transforms the feel of the bike, for the better.

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