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04-17-17, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Spartan420

Thanks for the reply.

Am I tripling my distance? I pulled "ride 16 miles a day" out of thin air based on nothing more than that is how far I have to go to ride an hour.

I am only tripling my miles if the miles I arbitrarily started with are not too low already - which they might be. I could have went a lot longer yesterday.

Maybe I misread your post. I understood you to say that your longest ride to date is 20 miles, and that you have a goal of riding 64 miles, which is roughly 3 times as great.

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