After passing 50,000 miles and 9 years, 6 months, and 8 days bicycling, you’d think there wouldn’t be any more milestones for a while. You’d’ve thunk wrong. I’ve been streaking for a while, but not the kind where some idiot is running buck nekkid across a field where they’re playing sports ball in front of thousands of people and more at home watching the ol’ boob tube.

My streak is decidedly more tame, doing some sort of activity every day for 500 weeks which is that 9.5 years. I’m not sure how Strava calculates the streak week, like you have to exercise at least half the week or a certain number of hours.  But I’ve cycled every day for 5 years and 9 months as of today. If I can make it another 3 months, that’ll add up to 6 years. Plus I’ve been walking almost every day for 7.5 years and doing daily yoga for 11.5 years, each for 30 minutes or more.

As always with me, and really everyone if you think about it, that’s a big if. Read on for more thoughts. I can’t promise they’ll be deep, but I won’t promise that they aren’t, either.

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