By: Rae Simpson

Rae Simpson — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:08:34 +0000

First, people who sign up for tours like these are A-type personalities who know full well that there will be the challenge of doing more miles on more successive day than even the most active of us do during our normal lives at home. We find out quickly how to manage the effort so we can go at it again day after day. We get strategies from other riders and from staff, ideas as to how to balance the desire to ride the bike with the desire to have time at the end of the day to enjoy the destination. Getting a lift up a brutal climb on a long day can make a big difference. Starting from the lunch stop before a rest day can make enough time to get laundry done right then and relax or sightsee on the rest day. The point being to manage your pace from the very start so that it is sustainable until the very finish, and it is amazing how much better most of us are doing at the end if we haven’t overdone the first week. I’m not the quickest any more (never was) – I need those tactics and I’ve felt great finishing every trip I’ve started except maybe my very first one when I hadn’t quite learned how to effectively manage the expectations.

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By: Rae Simpson