When I was 22 I went cycling on my own in BC for a month, down the Pacific Coast for a month and across the continental US for a month. I was athletic, but had no strong cycling experience. For the first several days each day was my new longest distance record. Other than stops between each leg of the trip, or to visit someone, there were no planned days off.

In BC the weather was cold and I did about 130 km per day mostly because there was so much daylight and nothing else to do. The Pacific Coast I average something like 50 miles a day and generally met a lot of other cyclists at the H&B campsites and rode with them. Going across the US, I mostly was just getting home on a budget and aimed for 100 miles per day, but ended up more like 90 miles per day because of some big storms.