Someone wants to cycle LEJOG but is starting with little experience. To build up confidence and fitness they decide on a strategy which involves cycling one mile on Day 1, two miles on Day 2, three miles on Day 3 and so on. If their chosen route is 1000 miles, how many days will it take them?
[Edited to address lack of precision in the question]
Excel had it sorted in about 30s...
The fact that they have decided on that strategy shows that they are indeed inexperienced as it is utterly impractical and there is no way they would be able to implement it. So I'm going to say that they would have to modify their strategy once they started and it would take them a few months as they would probably give up and go back to the planning stage before restarting. Maybe a few weeks if they were bloody minded enough to press on.Someone wants to cycle LEJOG but is starting with little experience. To build up confidence and fitness they decide on a strategy which involves cycling one mile on Day 1, two miles on Day 2, three miles on Day 3 and so on. If their chosen route is 1000 miles, how many days will it take them?
[Edited to address lack of precision in the question
Isn't the answer obvious?
12th day of Xmas........
Wow, twice as quick as gauss, Im in awe :-)
A better idea would be to start at a reasonably managable 20 miles per day and build from there. It would save 19 days of pointless short distance riding.
You reckon you can find a B&B exactly one mile from where you started?
That's what you say, but have you seen @potsy lately? Doing 2 miles the day after riding 1 mile might be a bit much.....
Its a fully supported ride with my butler driving the mobile home behind me.
B&B, no, but camping or glamping, yes!
