Trail rides with EBC and then ride back

Saturday sunday and monday I will join Everglades Bycicle club and ride 3 trails in north florida. West Orange trail in Orlando on saturday ,Withlacoochee Trail  on sunday and  Van Fleet State Trail on monday. On tuesday I will ride back. to miami. Will ride highway 50 to cocoa beach and down A1A to miami

mobile to miami

Last november I did a ride from Mobile Alabama to miami and then to key west. I did the same route as the pensacola 1600 from Pensacola to Perry. After Perry the 1600 km rando route goes down us 27 but I continued through Mt Dora to Orlando. US 50 through Christmas and Titusville to cocoa beach and down A1A to Miami. and later to Key west and back. I did it touring style riding between hotels. Longest was 120 miles and shortest 50 miles. Highway 399 between Pensacola and Panama City beach was closed when I tried to ride it. I had to turn back and ride more than 10 miles to highway 98. On 98 there were closures and detours on the way because they were fixing small bridges. So when you ride this route let someone drive the route day or so before to check if the bridges are still closed and ask about 399 closures. About 10 miles before Mexico beach there is a military training area with a sign along the road about explosives. So I dont recommend walking off the road. If you have a flat there stay on the road fixing it. If you have time go to a oyster restaurant. Lot of them in this area. The road is usually good. No cracks in the pavement. In the area around 100 miles before Perry there are not many shops or gas stations. Found 1 extra small shop around 40 miles w of Perry not on maps. In this area mobile phone connection is scarce. But sometimes you can ask for wifi. Even on small restaurants. That is it. Enjoy the ride. I enjoyed it alot.

Guinness

Lot of things happening. Long version. When i walked around Iceland I focused on finishing it and I was not thinking of Guinnes world record at all. Then I decided to cycle around iceland. I knew both the walking and the cycling part were Icelandic records. Nobody had done this before. After the cycling part was finished 2016 i got the idea that probably this could be a Guinness world record in longest triathlon. After talking to Guinness they decided to look into it and told me that because i dont have full video coverage of the attempt it is not qualified for longest triathlon even if it is nearly 2000 miles longer than existing longest triathlon.I have been talking to existing record holder Norma Bastidas about how she did her triathlon record and I am thinking of doing full attempt on her record. her record is 4983 km total. My record attempt is planed to be 8000 km. My weak part is running. I will test my ability next 2 weeks in that category. I am strong in swimming and cycling so that will not be a problem. If my running test is positive i plan to start my attempt beginning of february and finish 7 months later. I will do this attempt in Miami most of it but part of the cycling will be done as a long point to point ride to Halifax in the spring. I will send another status in 2 weeks letting you know if i am up for the running part. So please no media coverage yet until I give a green light.

St Augustine to Halifax Nova Scotia

I will do a little ride to Halifax from where I returned in my last ride. This is a unsupported ride. I will ride between hotels .The start will be middle of May or beginning of jun depends on weather. It is around 30 days. 

My ride last christmas was a training ride for this ride. My ride from Mobile Alabama to Miami too. i wil ldo few training rides before i start. My trainng rides are to Ft Pierce and back. 

 

Christmas eve on the bike

On cristmas eve I was riding from Daytona to St augustine florida in a good tailwind. Iwas riding fast north. My plan was to send my father SMS in Iceland when it is 6 Icelandic time or 1 eastern time. Found a gas station with internet connection just before 1 and sent the sms. Then few miles later I rode past a guy playing bag pipes in front of his house af Flagler beach. he was good so I stopped to listen to him. I listened to him for 10 minutes. This was my christmas music. Great moment. moments like this are part of the reason why I ride long rides like this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speed

On a day to day rides like I am doing riding fast has totally different meaning. Usual cyclists that only do few days per week riding talk about speed as miles per hour. And more miles per hour the better. On day after day ride you need to ride slower. So slow that you can ride the day after. And you pick your distance per day as the distance you can ride many days in a row. If you go too fast per day you need more resting days and you go slower. And if you ride too far one day you need more rest days And goes slower. My speed is 60 to 80 miles per day . usual touring rider rides 50. To 60 miles per day. Some people have trained themselves to do 100 or more miles per day but that is not usual.

bike path Titusville

Bike trail to titusville

Rest days

On a long day after day rides you need rest days. I try to take rest days on hotels with laundry. Then I can clean my clothes. Dirty clothes are not just smelly. They can become acidic and hurt you. Sores because of this are difficult to handle and take few days to grow. On rest days I try to eat clean food like fish or steak. My usual day to day food is gas station food. Gas station food is not the best food you can get but it includes calories and energy to drive you on a long ride.

riding down A1A

Palmtrees my bike and ice cream on my way down a1a.

New bike path from Mims Florida to Titusville

And another trail between Mims and Titusville that I did on the long ride Here is article about it. It is new. few months old

C2C expands in North Brevard

After more than two years under construction, the newest portion of the Coast-to-Coast Trail opened without fanfare through North Titusville and Mims in September 2017. I rode it on Labor Day to check it out.

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