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evilmike · Nov 25, 2024

It was a perfect day yesterday weather-wise. I was hoping to reach triple digit miles yesterday but after the main ride, I wasn't up for the bonus distance. (I did get a metric century-and-a-half.) For the main ride, I went to the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge and explored off the beaten path. At one point, I was so far off the beaten path that I had to switch Google Maps to satellite view because the map view no longer showed any trail at all.

(150.5 km)

evilmike · Feb 9, 2025

Even though I wasn't able to get a picture because my trip counter reset (twice!) today, I was still able to get past a milestone number today -- 101 miles (162 km). I didn't start out aiming for 100 miles. I was going somewhere specific and misremembered how far away it was. I got to my destination and realized I was already at 48 miles and thought "well, I'm going to be too close not to go for it."

drawn_inward · Feb 10, 2025

evilmike said:
Even though I wasn't able to get a picture because my trip counter reset (twice!) today, I was still able to get past a milestone number today -- 101 miles (162 km). I didn't start out aiming for 100 miles. I was going somewhere specific and misremembered how far away it was. I got to my destination and realized I was already at 48 miles and thought "well, I'm going to be too close not to go for it."

How much time did this take?

evilmike · Feb 10, 2025

drawn_inward said:
How much time did this take?

It ended up being a 12-hour day with probably a little more than 8-hours of that being crank-time. I rode to a botanical gardens, had lunch, spent around an hour walking around the gardens, and rode home. During the ride, I had a few stops along the way: a couple of times to get pictures of birds, a couple of rest breaks, and the inevitable pit stops (an important part of distance riding is knowing where the good bathrooms are!)