Climbing challenge completed, move on to the distance challenge – BionicOldGuy

Last Tuesday, June 30th, I completed my June Climbing Challenge with a total of 7,652 meters. The highest mountain in the world is Chomolungma (Mt. Everest) at 8,848 meters. When looking at the highest peaks on each continent, South America comes in second with Aconcagua at 6,962 meters. Crossing 8848 meters is a challenge called “Everesting”. I didn’t quite manage that. But I did a little more than just “Aconcagua-ing,” which feels pretty good.

A challenge makes training fun, which is why I signed up for the 800km distance challenge in July. I’m actually photographing 1000 miles, a little over 1600 km. This requires an average of just over two hours of driving at 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) or more, which seems doable. In the first 4 days I’m just over 111 miles faster than planned so far. I enjoy this more than climbing because speed on the flat is much more the strength of my recumbent bike than climbing.

Last Sunday I took a long cruise through the mountain roads northwest of Morgan Hill.