Bicycle touring is not about sport. It’s not about winning, or covering vast distances every day— it's about switching from a sedentary mode of living to a nomadic mode of being. It's the search for a particular perspective you can get on yourself and the state of the world when everything around you is constantly moving, when you're immersed in the forces of nature and all its beauty, unpredictability, and expansiveness.
From this point of view, you can understand yourself at the deepest level. Name, age, and address are no longer relevant, while watches and calendars become dumb objects. Focus exists in the moment, driven by the cycle of the Sun, from which awareness becomes razor sharp, the ego loses its grip, and you can understand with animal clarity what it means to be alive.