Agreed. Plenty of cyclists have toured over 10,000 miles on a bicycle in a year and written journals about the experience: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/ https://crazyguyonabike.com/

Personally I rode 20,000 miles in 24 months (with 5 gaps, Covid being the longest gap):

http://kundi.ge/about-nic-roets/