So I just used the school stationary bike for a half an hour. While I did vary a lot on speed, from about 8mph at the lowest and a little over 25mph at the highest, I averaged out at slightly higher than 14mph.
This means, that given our miles over the trip, which is melted down to approximately 30 miles a day, I should only spend a little over 2 hours bicycling every day that I'm in Europe.
Honestly that doesn't sound bad at all. If I put in some extra time every week, we can have plenty of extra time to stay in Dublin before we return home.
To better demonstrate the trip I've created an illustration of our plans.
This is the basic idea. We will skip Greece if we feel we don't have enough time.
In addition to working out, we'll also be moving out of our apartment and into tents in my dads backyard. Not only will this save us a bunch of money, it should also prepare us for living in tents most of the time in Europe.
Yay! I'm so glad your criminal mastermind was able to make a map like this, I was going to but my ability is limited to paper and a highlighter. We probably will wander a little lower through France, but that is definitely the overall! I'm so excited, 40 miles a day doesn't seem that out of reach. Although, there will be those possibly rocky or uphill areas where we can only get 5 miles per hour :P J/K we are staying on main roads so we should be fine.
ReplyDeleteP.S. After some deliberation and map studying it looks like we may have to travel through the alps, though we could go around. It will probably depend on how much time we have left when we start heading North in Italy.
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