multimodal commuter
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360 miles in 24 hours would be an impossible pace for me. A Flèche is 360 km in that time, a very moderate pace even with stops, but 360 miles is a whole lot more. Last July I rode 275 miles in a 24 hour period. That includes several long food stops, walking over two bridges, a ferry, and a nap; so I could have gone a bit farther if conditions had been different. But I don't think there's any way I could maintain a 15 mph average speed for that long.
As for the Erie Canal path, the parts of it I've seen were nice, but not conducive of fast riding. The busy sections are busy, and some sections are poorly maintained. There are sections where you have to take the road. These are not always marked. We had to turn around a few times to get around an obstacle of one kind or another.