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The route…

Dan Watt has graciously used his mapping skills to put together an awesome route for my ride. In total, subject to a couple of small changes, the route is officially 775 kilometres, or 482 miles.

Here’s how it breaks down timewise.

In Florida, I rode 386 miles in 24 hours. That’s an average pace of 16 miles per hour.

If I average 16 miles per hour for 482 miles, I should be able to complete the entire trip between Ottawa and Windsor in just over 30 hours.

(For the Canadians in the crowd, 386 miles is 621 kilometres, 16mph is almost 26kph).

That’s about 6 hours, or 20% faster than the current record.

I’ll post the entire route at some point - It’ll make for an interesting addition to the archive that I’m building with this blog. I’ll have to check with the UMCA to see how it compares to the route that Ron Dossenbach (the current record holder) took in 1987.

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