Inspired by Lael, Miranda has taken on increasingly demanding bikepacking challenges over the last three years. She’s hallucinated in the middle of the night, fallen asleep while riding, thrown up, and been trapped on a mountainside. Planning distances, meals, water locations, and bivvy stops is hard for someone who’s focus used to be on a 3–10-minute efforts but Miranda loves a challenge.
That brought on the idea to ask Lael if she would build Miranda a route she could ride ‘blind’ – a route where she knew nothing about in advance. She’d only ridden planned routes before, so by removing any control in designing the route the challenge would be much greater. The beautiful thing about bikepacking is that any distance is a good distance. Could Miranda embrace that tenet and have a similar experience to Lael? She didn’t need to ride to her capacity for the same distance or speed – she just had to try.
