Me neither.
I do the odd century,usually one a year,a couple of 75miles and a few 50miles.As I ride alone mostly I do 30-40miles most of the time
Me neither.
Sympathies, Al. Both our Labs died within 36 hours of each other back in April. We're still mourning.
Apart from the two extremes, there's more routes between those two destinations than anyone is likely to do in a lifetime. How many of them have you done? I suspect it's just the one. Nothing wrong with that, some people ride the same route every week, it's just there's a huge difference between having been somewhere and having traveled there. If the objective was the destination, you've ticked it off, several times. For me the objective is usually the journey, the destination largely irrelevant.
Yes this sounds a lot less like 'l've been everywhere' and a lot more like 'l've been everywhere west of the Tamar'. Get on a train to somwhere and cycle home, even if it takes five days.PH wrote: ↑15 Sep 2021, 9:16am Apart from the two extremes, there's more routes between those two destinations than anyone is likely to do in a lifetime. How many of them have you done? I suspect it's just the one. Nothing wrong with that, some people ride the same route every week, it's just there's a huge difference between having been somewhere and having traveled there. If the objective was the destination, you've ticked it off, several times. For me the objective is usually the journey, the destination largely irrelevant.
The British Cycle Quest is good for this, it encourages you to plot routes you might not otherwise consider, some of my nicest rides have been when I wasn't expecting them.
The cathedrals challenge that we've talked about previously, is a similar thing. As someone suggested, it's either about the cathedrals, or the journey and if the latter it might as well have been car showrooms.
I climbed Helvellyn (my favourite LD mountain) almost every year until illness about 5 years ago. Similarly Cheviot. Always different and never tired of it.Tangled Metal wrote: ↑16 Sep 2021, 6:48am How about doing day walks with each new day you add one mile to the length of the walk until you can't do any more miles due to time left in the day or physical fitness.
Never done that but I've done over 50 miles in 16 hours straight walking. 40 miles in 9 hours. I know I could do more but I admit that I don't want to do it anymore.
I've not got bored of doing my usual stuff. It's about being out and not in. Even if I've done it all before. I used to do Coniston old man at least 5 times a year, helvellyn about 4 times and Warton crag a lot! Later wansfell got regular visits. Each walk is different even if the route is the same