Streaks

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. Continue reading »

Beginning in 1999, I started a “foreign-country-a-year” streak that I hope to maintain for many more decades. Here is a list. Continue reading »

Many people seem to be surprised by this but I am a pretty big football fan. That is, professional American football (to differentiate from there’s-way-too-many-teams college football, eh?-does-anyone-care Canadian football, and international football, known to Americans as “soccer.”) Come January, I even turn on the TV once in awhile — something that almost never happens during the rest of the year — just to watch. Continue reading »

By riding a self-supported double century — the Wellington-Carter Lake 200 — in Colorado the other week, my streak of having completed at least one 200-miler-in-one-day every year since 1996 continues. Generally, I don’t like being a slave to streaks but this is one I intend to continue for at least another 40 years into my 70s.

Some of my fondest life memories are of two-hundred-mile adventures on two wheels so I thought I’d reflect back and pick out some of my favorites. Continue reading »