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Re:See Your Folks by stevoski on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @04:50PM (#6562087)
Get involved in cycling communities and you realise that this, while not particularly easy, is not particularly hard either. Especially for spryer-than-average 70-year-old.

An average unfit person of almost any age, can, within a couple of weeks of regular riding, achieve 100 km in a day.

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Re:See Your Folks by mkingston on Thursday October 17, 2013 @04:14AM (#6564169)
Get involved in cycling communities and be comfortably shown up by someone three times your age and you realise that [...]
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Re:See Your Folks by jusben1369 on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @05:52PM (#6562346)
Woooh. An unfit 55 - 70 year old isn't going to do 100km's after a couple of weeks. They'll blister and cramp out at a minimum even if it's really flat terrain. However, they could get there in a couple of months with the right training/dedication.
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Re:See Your Folks by precisioncoder on Thursday October 17, 2013 @02:13AM (#6563912)
Disagree, hell an unfit person can normally walk 30-40k+ a day and biking is much easier and faster. Perhaps you're confusing km with miles?
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