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 1km, hopefully over 1.6km 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]
- Lorne to Waurn Ponds, Southern Cross to home : 1 –
- : 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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- : 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
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- bakery : 32 –
- : 33 – fetch milk
- : 34 – commute
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- : 39 – bakery
- : 40 – movie
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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
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- : 60 – bakery
- Elwood Park T-50 : 61 –
- : 62 – commute
- : 63 – Super Tuesday counting
- : 64 – commute
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- : 67 – Five Mile Track
- : 68 – Garvey Track
- : 69 – Mt Defiance
- : 70 – commute
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- : 74 – Family grampians ride
- : 75 – Halls Gap bike paths
- : 76 – commute
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- : 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
- shopping ride : 92 –
- : 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
- Take me to work : 122 –
- : 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
- cold wet caulfield : 153 –
- : 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
- midday chadstone shopping : 170 –
- rummage around clayton : 171 –
- carnegie and caulfield : 172 – fish and bread,
- solstice sunday : 173 –
- afternoon east malvern loop : 174 –
- hark, a new-found laneway : 175 –
- backstreets and boomers with bogroll : 176 –
- cold icy rain and rainbows : 177 –
- local loops with ITB pain : 178 –
- loaves and fishes : 179 –
- cold still winter day : 180 –
- frosty team kids drop off : 181 –
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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 1.6km, longest was 160km. 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 –
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