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Mileage Advice on the C&O
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judy from Austin, TX on 6/6/2013 2:40:14 PM:
My husband and I will be riding from Pitts to DC in September. We are regular bikers in our 50's, laset year we rode 375 miles on the Camino de Santiago in Spain that included paved roads and dirt path and lots of hills. Our bike trips are vacations, so we usually take a day off from riding every 4th day and allow plenty of time to cover the full distance. I've read many of the posts and would like to get some feedback on what you experts think are the toughest sections of the C&O so we can break up our mileage days appropriately. Thanks!
 
JJB from Fairmont, WV on 6/6/2013 3:47:12 PM:
Hi Judy! No expert here but I am always willing to try to help folks out when I can. One question for you. Are you camping or staying at a B&B or hotel? How many miles do you think you will do in a day? I ask because there are some some towns that have more to do in them than others. Hancock vs. Paw Paw for example. This may influence your decision of where to stop and stay. (I hope that made sense...lol).
 
Anonymous on 6/6/2013 5:22:45 PM:
We are trying to avoid camping. Thinking of averaging about 30 miles a day. We know we will have to do 45 miles from Cumberland to Little Orleans since no place to stay in Paw Paw. We have relatives in Cumberland so we will be staying over an extra day there for sure. And when we take other leisure days we will want them to be in places of interest and with a decent restaurant.
 
judy from austin, Tx on 6/6/2013 6:00:25 PM:
I should correct that...really a decent place to sleep would be considerably more of a priority than restaurants. We're not food snob bikers. I guess I should clarify my question...if we were going to have a couple of higher mileage days, are there sections of the towpath that would be better (or worse) for high mileage?
 
lenny on 6/6/2013 8:22:02 PM:
All 185 miles are hard to tell apart on the C&O, that is the condition and surface. I would try to get in touch with the proprietor of the Liberty Gas station in Paw Paw, she told me last fall her partner and her where opening a few rooms across the street.
 
JJB from Fairmont, WV on 6/7/2013 4:56:58 AM:
I know we have had to literally hose off our bikes and ourselves at Hancock, Paw Paw and Cumberland. It seems like we always hit rain around the Hancock area. Rain equals mud and mud puddles and that will slow you down. One of our considerations for mileage was finding a B&B that had a washer & dryer. We do laundry every 3rd day.
 
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