I booked my return flight from America last night – Boston to Glasgow – leaving Boston on Thursday 5th October 2017 and arriving in Glasgow the following day. I had hoped not to leave Boston until the Sunday but this would have meant a £1100 plane ticket instead of a £453 – I went for the cheap ticket!
I had already decided to reduce my trip by a week and now I’ve knocked off another couple of days – seriously reducing the number of cycling days but still very much doable (well if folks can do it in less than 9 days I should be able to do it in 10 and a bit weeks??) – I just need to take what is still very much a random selection of dots on the map and format a route – but plenty of time yet to do that??
Both my route and, more so, my time planning would be much easier if I wasn’t planning on doing the Maine Marathon – sense is telling me to abort the marathon idea but where’s the fun in that – it’s all about the challenge!
**Fastest Crossing of America by Bicycle (Male) – stolen from Guinness World Records**
The fastest crossing of the USA by an individual, as set during the Race Across America (RAAM), was achieved by Christoph Strasser (Austria) in 7 days 15 hours 56 minutes cycling from Oceanside, California, to Annapolis, Maryland, from 10 to 18 June 2014. In 2013 Christoph Strasser became the first person to cross the USA coast to coast in under 8 days when he finished in 7 days 22 hours 11 minutes. He had previously won the race in 2011, posting a time of 8 days 8 hours 6 minutes. The race route varies each year and Strasser’s average speed of 16.42 mph is also a record in terms of average speed, far better than his 2013 speed of 15.6 mph.
