What scares us the most?
Even though we're no longer spring chickens, we're quietly confident that, physically, we're up for this challenge, i.e that we CAN cycle an average of 90 miles per day for 11 days. We're confident that, with all our training and conditioning between now and April 18th, we will be in sufficiently good shape. What are the most likely things to stop us achieving our goal? Here are the big two: Repetitive strain injury (RSI) . It's unlikely that we'll cycle more than one or two back-to-back 90 mile days as part of our training. Which means that we just won't know in advance what might issues might niggle our bodies us after 3 or more days consecutive 90 mile days in the saddle. The challenge with RSIs is that they're very hard to treat or mask with pain killers. Some years ago, on a long mountain bike ride of 100km in one day, I suffered from iliotibial band syndrome, more commonly know as " IT band syndrome ". It's quite common amongst cyclis...