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re: Which feat is harder, thru hiking the AT or riding the Tour de France route?
Posted on 4/10/24 at 8:15 pm to Ingeniero
Posted on 4/10/24 at 8:15 pm to Ingeniero
People read that book and think ‘oh yeah, imagine how great a cheeseburger will taste after 3 days eating ramen’.
Read it again lol. Ticks with lymes. Almost everyone gets lymes on the trail. Hitchhiking. I once picked up thru hikers up in Maine and the saying is true “the guys get skinny and the girls get mean” and they stunk really bad. 6 months hiking through the woods. Most people are mentally bent when they reenter society. Thousands of people do it every year. It’s going to be like a moving community of weirdos and freaks that you cant get away from.
Id rather motorcycle cross country and sleep under the stars than hike 6 months of basically the same scenery; trees.
Read it again lol. Ticks with lymes. Almost everyone gets lymes on the trail. Hitchhiking. I once picked up thru hikers up in Maine and the saying is true “the guys get skinny and the girls get mean” and they stunk really bad. 6 months hiking through the woods. Most people are mentally bent when they reenter society. Thousands of people do it every year. It’s going to be like a moving community of weirdos and freaks that you cant get away from.
Id rather motorcycle cross country and sleep under the stars than hike 6 months of basically the same scenery; trees.
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Posted on 4/10/24 at 8:24 pm to Obtuse1
quote:correct.
Physically the TdF route especially if you are doing a stage a day, for all but the most fit amateur cyclists some of the mountain stages, and definitely the Queen stage would be damn near impossible. Just consider how hard it is for the World Tour sprinters to finish the big climbs.
It's the compressed timeline that's the problem. Former cat3 road racer weighing in here and I can tell you I wouldn't have been able to finish.
Consider every stage is roughly 125-150 miles and throw in 2 or 3 days worth of cat1 or Hors catégorie mt vonteaux or alp duez climbs and you're not getting on the bike and doing another 150 miles in the saddle the next day even with the 2 pitiful rest days.
Also with that much riding a simple rubbed blister on your inner thigh becomes a raging bed sore and your immune system goes to shite and getting sick and still having to ride every day relentlessly..
Not happening and I raced and trained like a fiend for years
This post was edited on 4/10/24 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 4/10/24 at 8:31 pm to usc6158
quote:LoL that's cute
The third week would be rough, but if you didn't push any of the climbs, very doable
Posted on 4/10/24 at 8:38 pm to Ingeniero
I’d find it tougher feat to take 6 months off work vs 3 weeks.
Posted on 4/10/24 at 8:39 pm to Obtuse1
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Mentally through hiking the AT.
Physically the TdF route
This I what I settled on too. The idea of walking 2100 miles over 6 months would take a mental toll, but I don't even know if I could physically finish the tour challenge. I think I'm definitely a Type 2 Fun person though
Posted on 4/10/24 at 8:51 pm to Ingeniero
I hiked the AT for two weeks back in the day. Kind of wound up hiking with a random group going at my pace and about 3 or 4 days in I realized they were just homeless people.
Posted on 4/10/24 at 8:53 pm to Ingeniero
There are some very ordinary folks, both very young and very old that compete the AT. Extreme athletes struggle with the TdF.
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