Originally Posted by
robow
Mev, he's going to have ride much more than you did according to your blog. I noticed you rode better than 80 miles a day only 11 of the 31 days you rode in March and only 3 of the 19 days you rode in April. He needs to ride better than 80 miles everday and he won't be able to withstand the several days where you rode less than 50 miles. The young man's got a difficult but not impossible task in front of him.
The way you reconcile the differences here is that I occasionally deviated from the ST route. An example is when I went via Deming rather than Emory Pass. You are going off the posted ST route distances. My distance from Oceanside (since I bypassed San Diego) to St Augustine was 2763 miles and the ST route was 3159. A small amount may be because my odometer read low, but another part would be different routing.