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The route wasn't much of a factor. To meet the parameters set out by Guiness world records people she had to log at least 18,000 miles, was not allowed to count
by Fricken 2y ago
The route wasn't much of a factor. To meet the parameters set out by Guiness world records people she had to log at least 18,000 miles, was not allowed to count miles that work against her general easterly direction, and had to end the trip in the same place she began. So she sought routes that mostly kept her off of highways and bad roads. She skipped Asia entirely.
- gcanyon 2y agoI think it has to have been a significant factor just in general. And now I checked the route the previous record-holder rode, and it's a very different story: https://jenny-graham.com/round-the-world/ https://jenny-graham.com/round-the-world/ tl;dr: rain, riding at night, sleeping out in the cold. And I just noticed that article has the average miles per day, which ranges from a high of 184 to a low of 117 -- so the route can obviously affect performance by a factor of 1.5 or more.