Double Century Streak

Aug 28th, 2009 (Fri)
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Cycling in my new home state of Colorado in 2006: Canny by Fort Collins' iconic Horsetooth Reservoir during the Fort Collins-Wellington 200.


By riding to Walden in August 2009, I extended my annual double century streak to 14 years. I hope to continue this streak for as long as I am physically capable to (barring injury or death, probably five more decades). This seems reasonable to me because one of the minimum fitness standards I have for myself is that I should be able to bike 200 miles on any given day — even without training and if that meant having to ride very slowly — and fulfillment of the goal means doing so just one time each year.

Below is a list of rides I’ve done that (in my view) “qualifies.” Basically, I count any ride of 195.0 miles (I allow for rounding :) ) or more in which I did not sleep for a significant amount of time at some point during those 195 miles. Right now I will define that as “sleeping more than 20 minutes.”

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