Maybe the guy has cycled a million miles maybe he hasn't? Say he started cycling at 10 years old this gives 72 years of cycling 13,888 miles for each of these years. To reach the million mile milestone he would need to cycle this distance year on year, starting from age 10 to present day. I am sceptical as having cycled 12k a year myself for several years, his claims seem to me to be some what stretching it. If we say he started cycling serious distances much later in his life, but still when he was a young man, say from age 18, then this annual average distance he needs to ride to reach one million miles equates to 15,625 miles each year for 64 years. Some years have may had to ride a lot more than 15,625 miles to make up for any short fall in previous years. He can't have had much time to do anything else if he had a full time job as well. Maybe as a civil servant he didn't do very much? When I used to ride 12k a year commuting, working full time, I was permanently in a cycle of riding, eating, washing clothing, maintaining bike(s), sleeping to recover. I had little or no time for much else. I was very fit, but come the end of each week I was knackered. I did this for three years. Even cycling half the distance of the one million miles he is claiming, it would be a monumental effort. Unless there is other corroborating evidence other than his own I would take his claim with a pinch of salt. I hope his claims are true as ultimately the only person(s) he is cheating is himself and maybe the people who have been taken in by him.
