Double Century Streak
Cycling in my new home state of Colorado in 2006: Canny by Fort Collins' iconic Horsetooth Reservoir during the Fort Collins-Wellington 200.
As of August 2010, the number of consecutive years I’ve ridden at least one double century is 15. 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.”
- 2010: Peak-to-Peak 300km Brevet + 13 miles.
- 2009: Fort Collins-Walden 200
- 2008: Fort Collins-Nebraska 200
- 2007: RMCC 400km Brevet, RMCC 600km Brevet (I slept in a hotel room during this one but only after the first 400km)
- 2006: Wellington-Carter Lake 200
- 2005: Butterfield, Bay In a Day, Bass Lake Powerhouse
- 2004: Hemet, Mulholland, Mt. Tam, Tour of Two Forests
- 2003: Davis 400K Brevet, Davis 600K Brevet, Paris-Brest-Paris
- 2002: Knoxville Fall Classic, Heartbreak, Death Valley
- 2001: Devil Mountain, Knoxville Fall Classic
- 2000: Solvang, Terrible Two, Knoxville Fall Classic
- 1999: Solvang, Devil Mountain, Central Coast, Davis, Terrible Two
- 1998: Solvang, Davis Double, Eastern Sierra
- 1997: Death Valley, Davis, Grand Tour
- 1996: Davis
