Originally Posted by
jeffpoulin
One more thing, be prepared to be hungry at work. Not just a little hungry. The kind of hunger that makes you eat a second breakfast when you get in and yearn for lunch by 10am, then a second lunch by 2pm. 80 miles/day will require an extra 2000+ calories. On day one, you'll probably have that in reserve so it'll be no big deal, but by your second week, you'll be foraging all the time.
This is something else I was thinking about. We're talking about 4-5000 calories per day - how are you going to physically just carry that much food on your bike? This is a problem I run into on my 'light' bike. Even stuffing my handlebar bag full, I end up running a bit low on certain days. Tough to make the time to eat, too.