you can't until you can

removing the imp from the possible

You can’t plan for it. There is no way to ‘feel ready’.

I was stunned by Zeke’s assessment.

How do we do it then?

We just decide. We go. You can’t do this until you do it. You won’t be able to do it until you get on the bike and start grinding it out.

Then what the fuck are we doing - going over packing lists, gathering food and what not?

Zeke chuckled gently as he spoke. This stuff is so we merely don’t die. We’re getting this stuff together so we have a chance.

I didn’t realize this by Zeke didn’t spend his youthful, adventurous times riding huge distances.

Up until my first hundred off road, I never came close to riding this far before.

This didn’t seem to check out. You used to ride to Windsor to work on a farm?

Yeah. Eighty K. Once per week On road.

Road riding is a different game. Less friction, more gradual climbs and altogether less effort required just to stay on a bike. Much of what we ride is fairly punishing.

It was only a few years ago that I first rode 100 off road. It was only last year that we did the three hundred.

I was still a bit bent with Zeke. So you didn’t train or prep?

Nope. We just decide. We go out without options for rescue and we just keep riding. The human body is capable of incredible things when you decide to just go for it.

What adventure are you not committing to?

What new possibility is merely a choice away?

Choose to join us - me, Zeke and Jed on an adventure to the head of Lake Charlotte.

Sign up here to go on the Lake Charlotte Mini Epic - part bike ride, part party, part fundraiser for the Lake Charlotte Mountain Bike Association - 100% odd, offbeat camaraderie.

55k of mixed riding into the wilderness with odd, determined, uncivilized weirdos.

We’d love to have ya!