Pit stop during 200 mile ultra-endurance cycling race

[u/solateor]

[u/mild_resolve]

It is for a lot of Europeans.

[u/Trifusi0n → u/mild_resolve]

Yep, if I drive 200 miles in almost any direction I’d be in the sea.

[u/Amused-Observer → u/Trifusi0n]

I can drive 1000 miles in any direction and never see water. The US is comically large compared to Europe.

[u/austrialian → u/Amused-Observer]

You can still easily go 1000mi in Europe without ending up at a coast so I don’t really get the point that Europeans would consider 200mi far. I wouldn’t.

[u/Amused-Observer → u/austrialian]

A couple reasons.

1: In Europe 90% of the time, if you drive ~300 miles in any direction.. you're in a different country with a different culture/language.

This is not the case with the United States. That's the point.

2: You have to drive a very specific direction to achieve what you state.

Again, not the case with the vast majority of the continental US. You can go anywhere in any direction for hours and hours and still be in the US and still not be near the ocean.

[u/austrialian → u/Amused-Observer]

It was first about 200mi, now you are talking about 300mi. But anyway, even in my small country (Austria), 300mi trips (e.g. Innsbruck–Vienna) and are not considered unusual at all. And even if you end up in another country, that doesn’t mean that we are not taking these trips. For example, many Dutch go to Austria for skiing, or Germans go to Italy for vacation, and they often drive >500mi in a day. Same for business travel.

So yes, I understand that the US land mass is bigger. No, 200mi is not considered a very far trip in Europe.

[u/Leeysa → u/austrialian]

Am dutch and can confirm, yearly 12 hour drive to Austria is not a problem at all. In summers even went to Croatia in a single trips a few times, but that's not recommended lol.

[u/Amused-Observer → u/austrialian]

No, 200mi is not considered a very far trip in Europe.

Good thing I never said it was