Outside Triathlon, I would like to

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I have wanted for years to ride the Great Divide mountain bike route down the spine of the US.

Lady Flash is supportive, so maybe I should just nut up and get it done.

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Iā€™d quite like to do the European Divide, the change of scenary and culture would be amazing as you worked your way down to Portugal. But I need work out how I can tolerate camping and potentially the whole Brexit 90 days in 180 could cause issues if I was playing strictly by the book. How boarder control know how long youā€™ve been in Schengen zones I have no idea.

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Two old Uni friends did it; one wrote a book about it!

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Yeah - west highland way race is a good oneā€¦ cycle across another country again ( even if thatā€™s just GB ) ā€¦ learn to navigate properly for a fell race :laughing: I guess ride a cool stage of the tour, something like thatā€¦ the big climbsā€¦

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It occurs to me that I am in a defacto state of ā€˜outside Triathlonā€™ these days.

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I did get my UTMB points but failed twice in the lottery.

Still havenā€™t surfed Cloudbreak!

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Instead of never getting the chance to run around it, why not climb it :+1::sweat_smile:

I did that on an aborted Matterhorn trip.

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Hmm, I nearly got to Cape Wrath last year but a combination of illness and the ferry crossing not being on cost me that one, I will go back at some point though.

I have now added Boston to the list, keep failing to get into Berlin and Tokyo has been off limits but I think I read they are about to let tourists back in? Canā€™t really see sub-3 happening now sadly.

I ticked off 3 peaks this year and might still look at Jura again.

Iā€™ve added about another 5 US states and aiming to retire before 60 now!

Erm, the second part of this one hasnā€™t aged well, and a few of the capitals will be off limits for a few years! But I am going to start progressing the others again.

Visit every European capital - 31 down so far (and go to Pripyat while Iā€™m in Kiev)

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Retire early

#obsessed.

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Cripesā€¦ already itā€™s LEL again this year and will be PBP next year due to COVID shennanigans delaying LEL.
In the meantime I was one of a dozen GBDuro finishers last year, 2000km LEJOG via mid Wales with significant off road chunks in 4 ā€œstagesā€ bivvying and being self sufficient throughout. Crazy adventures so I guess that ticks the second paragraph.

Finding it very hard to be ultra bike fit AND ultra run fit at the same time these days so one is always compromised hence majoring on bikes lately (2000 was a couple of ultras including white horse 100 and at the end of the month iā€™ll be winging it at warwickshire ring but at least thatā€™s ā€œflatā€)

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Swim the channel ( in a wetsuit ) - none of that goose fat and pie eating or whatever goes on

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i donā€™t understand the questionā€¦

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The GBDuro heart painted onto the road at Worldā€™s End is still there :heart:

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It was probably pitch dark when @ed_m was going up there :smile:.

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I recall him telling me that he slept under a bush at the Llandegla end of the boardwalk so youā€™re probably right!

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Damn right it wasā€¦ the first 60miles of stage 2 took 9+ hours, dead purdy tho.

And yeah pulled off the trail for a comfy nap on the pine needles, naturally there was a better spot 200m further on.

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