Cycling the South Downs Way with a twelve year old
Edith at Lewes YHA What was I thinking? Edith and I cycled part of the South Downs Way back in 2016 when she was ten years old and I was recovering from a bad cycle crash (I remember some of my scars started bleeding after getting sun burnt). Towards the end of 2017 we started planning another 'adventure weekend' for the following summer. After much debate and enjoyable research, we decided to do something really epic and try and complete the South Downs Way in its entirety. We knew it was going to be a challenge but if a ten year old can do almost forty miles in a day and a half, then a twelve year old can do one hundred miles in four full days, can't they? The Plan The South Downs Way is pretty much 100 miles long from Winchester to Eastbourne. There are a lot of blogs, websites, books, leaflets etc describing the route. The excellent Cicerone guide describes a three day plan of roughly equal segments by distance. Although my daughter is tall and strong ...