WHY and how would somebody cycle over 500km to a hacker conference? (WHY2025)

I (hopefully) will have cycled from my home city of Mannheim all the way to the WHY camping grounds (>500km) in one go. I will report how I approached the whole endeavour, how I prepared, what the challenges were and what the hard part was. If I happen to not make it, I will describe how, why and what I should have done better. Planing and executing a plan like that, cycling more than 500km in one go demands equal parts preparation and lack of sanity. I want to share the story in an attempt to inspire people to explore their limits and achieve things that they did not think they would be able to do. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/FQNMBE/