Originally Posted by
Chitown_Mike
I could probably push through it by this fall, but I want to ensure if I pushed myself I could do 80 miles a day, hence the training. Plus all my current long rides are on a road bike in the super flat lands of Chicago, so the dirt trails and such, plus the continental divide, would probably push me harder than I can expect.
My 2009 tour on the Montour, GAP, and C & O.
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...P-C-amp-O-Tour
Keep in mind as you read it, if you read it, that you are not only more fit than I was, but you have knees that work. Rereading this journal now reminds me that 2009 was the first sign of the beginning of the end for my knees.