Originally Posted by
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are you stupid? 75 miles a day is nothing. thats about 7 hours of biking. maybe you're just hella out of shape. bad advice itt.
It actually turned out to be good advice for Alaska/Canada. 75 miles fully loaded with 50mph headwinds and lots of climbing turned out to be 12-14 hours of riding, depending on exactly how strong the wind was blowing and how many hills we encountered. It was the headwinds that got us though, for sure.
There is also a big difference in the severety of the climbs north of Vancouver. (Anchorage is at 0, Vancouver is near the 2100 mile mark, and Tijuana is near 3667.)
There were a few days that we were able to pop out 90 or 100 miles though. We even pulled a 150 mile day coming into Vancouver.