Each year for the past few years I try and ride as often as I can, my reasoning is that if I can’t go far, at least I can go often! Best effort to date was 2017 when I managed to ride 363 of 365 days, succumbing to the flu and staying in bed for two days in September. Rules are minimal; on the bike and over 1 ㎞, hopefully over 1.6 ㎞ to satisfy those who aren’t metric and insist on at least a mile. Added degree of difficulty, this year is a leap year.
Results so far: [366/366]
- : 1 – Lorne to Waurn Ponds, Southern Cross to home
- : 2 – commute
- : 3 – Hughesdale to Lorne
- : 4 – Lorne to Wye River return
- : 5 – Around Lorne
- : 6 – Commute
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- : 10 – commute
- : 11 – Lorne Wye River return
- : 12 – Lorne to Waurn Ponds
- : 13 – commute
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- : 15 – commute
- : 16 – commute
- : 17 – Yass River Road church
- : 18 – 3 Puncture Yass Ride
- : 19 – Yass River Road Buckmasters Bridge
- : 20 – Yass River Rd/ Murrumbateman/ Bungendore
- : 21 – Bungendore for coffee
- : 22 – noodles and milk
- : 23 – bakery
- : 24 – Warrnambool to Hopkins river, BMX and around Warrnambool
- : 25 – Warrnambool dunes
- : 26 – MTB tracks
- : 27 – evening fun
- : 28 – school book collection
- : 29 – Huntingdale wetlands
- : 30 – commute
- : 31 – commute
- : 32 – bakery
- : 33 – fetch milk
- : 34 – commute
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- : 39 – bakery
- : 40 – movie
- : 41 – commute
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- : 45 – Night border crossing
- : 46 – Moama meandering
- : 47 – Campaspe exploring
- : 48 – commute
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- : 53 – bakery
- : 54 – Yarra Valley Rail Trail
- : 55 – commute
- : 56 – school pickup
- : 57 – commute
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- : 59 – commute
- : 60 – bakery
- : 61 – Elwood Park T-50
- : 62 – commute
- : 63 – Super Tuesday counting
- : 64 – commute
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- : 66 – commute
- : 67 – Five Mile Track
- : 68 – Garvey Track
- : 69 – Mt Defiance
- : 70 – commute
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- : 73 – commute
- : 74 – Family grampians ride
- : 75 – Halls Gap bike paths
- : 76 – commute
- : 77 – commute
- : 78 – commute
- : 79 – Caulfield and back
- : 80 – commute
- : 81 – bakery
- : 82 – Djerring trail
- : 83 – Boyd park
- : 84 – Beer rescue
- : 85 – School book collection
- : 86 – commute
- : 87 – Afternoon delight
- : 88 – loaves and fishes
- : 89 – Quiet Rainy Ride
- : 90 – Murrumbeena meander
- : 91 – Afternoon ride
- : 92 – shopping ride
- : 93 – Day 93, flu shot ride
- : 94 – Day 94, Rosstown railtrail ride
- : 95 – Day 95, wet shopping
- : 96 – Day 96, rain, beer, pavé
- : 97 – Day 97, Around the blob
- : 98 – Day 98, around and around
- : 99 – Day 99, shopping with a loop
- : 100 – 100 days of riding, how silly is that
- : 101 – Allez alley, pavé party family fun
- : 102 – bread and fish
- : 103 – milk before breakfast
- : 104 – Djerring trail and Dandenong creek
- : 105 – Djerring trail, Caulfield racecourse
- : 106 – colouring in north Hughesdale
- : 107 – colouring in south Hughesdale
- : 108 – Huntingdale wetlands and Scotchmans creek
- : 109 – bread shopping
- : 110 – Djerring trail east
- : 111 – a capital tour of Murrumbeena
- : 112 – murrumbeenaring around
- : 113 – Four bike paths
- : 114 – wriggly out, straight back
- : 115 – packer park laps
- : 116 – Ferndale trackery
- : 117 – Triangle around the burbs
- : 118 – Caulfield racecourse
- : 119 – Halfway to Clayton and back
- : 120 – Riding in the rain
- : 121 – Okalee blocx
- : 122 – Take me to work
- : 123 – get thee to a bakery
- : 124 – Sunday fruit loop ride
- : 125 – Star Wars day galaxy ride
- : 126 – One does not SIMply get a new phone
- : 127 – a ride in seven bits
- : 128 – Windy parallelogram
- : 129 – Caulfield and beers
- : 130 – loaves and fishes
- : 131 – Sunday St Kilda Cycling
- : 132 – School chores
- : 133 – Chilly rakali spotting
- : 134 – Hello horseys
- : 135 – Orbitting chadstone
- : 136 – afternoon triangle
- : 137 – bakery
- : 138 – family ride pipeline track
- : 139 – clayton and milk
- : 140 – a brisk half Djerring
- : 141 – no fruit, one loop
- : 142 – rebel rebel, no helmet
- : 143 – pre-beer-o’clock ride
- : 144 – saturday shopping
- : 145 – we’re going on a beer hunt
- : 146 – looks like an axe
- : 147 – afternoon of the stupid walkers
- : 148 – explore Holmesglen trail
- : 149 – Rosstown Caulfield loop
- : 150 – around again
- : 151 – bakery
- : 152 – exploring south and west
- : 153 – cold wet caulfield
- : 154 – an interesting wriggle around
- : 155 – up and down through Oakleigh
- : 156 – to caulfield and back, differently
- : 157 – around chadstone, err, malvern east
- : 158 – Saturday shopping
- : 159 – Lorne Wye River return
- : 160 – Mt Defiance Family ride
- : 161 – Carnegie crazy garmin ride
- : 162 – bread, milk, nearly 10k
- : 163 – wetlands and huntingdale
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- : 166 – family ride, alleys and parks
- : 167 – colouring in the map
- : 168 – chased by a rainbow
- : 169 – around the block for chicken
- : 170 – midday chadstone shopping
- : 171 – rummage around clayton
- : 172 – fish and bread, carnegie and caulfield
- : 173 – solstice sunday
- : 174 – afternoon east malvern loop
- : 175 – hark, a new-found laneway
- : 176 – backstreets and boomers with bogroll
- : 177 – cold icy rain and rainbows
- : 178 – local loops with ITB pain
- : 179 – loaves and fishes
- : 180 – cold still winter day
- : 181 – frosty team kids drop off
- : 182 – bad strava art echidna
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So there you have it, I made it through the entire year riding every day. Two orders of magnitude, shortest day was around 1.6 ㎞, longest was 160 ㎞. Challenge accepted, challenge completed.
notes
It took me until to publish this publically, here’s the ugly little bash snippet I use to generate a ticklist of dates:
#!/bin/bash
d=2020-01-01
while [ "$d" != 2021-01-01 ]; do
date +" - [ ] [%F %a]" -d $d
d=$(date -I -d "$d + 1 day");
done
Last update – .
