This is an official challenge to anyone now writing in the Tour de France or, for that matter, any cyclist in the world who comes across this post. Yesterday, on 5 July 2010, at 4:19 PM, I left my house for a bike ride. I used an iPhone app called MapMyRide to–well–map my ride. My ride ended at 5:11 PM, making it a 50 minute ride. I thought that I had ridden about six or 7 miles, at a leisurely pace, stopping to take pictures here and there.

But I don’t know my own power! When I looked at the map of my route as uploaded, I had biked 2487.1 miles: across western Massachusetts, through upstate New York, through a little piece of Ontario on the Great Lakes, through Michigan, across Lake Michigan (there must be a ferry), through Wisconsin and Minnesota into Canada, across Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and well into Alberta just above Edmonton. I’ve embedded the map below, but it’s impressive to list them out like that, don’t you think?

I remember none of it, nor how I got home… I did get some pictures, but I stopped taking them a few miles from home. I’m not sure why. Did I fall asleep on Ambien during this 2400 mile ride? I don’t take Ambien! Anyway, here’s my six, not so interesting pictures.

I would say I gottta quit drinking, but anything that allows me to bike 2500 miles in less than an hour, can’t be all that bad for me!

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Another benefit offered to premium members is access to free “signature” training plans, a certain number per month based on membership level. But beware, you may not find any training plans to suit you! There are only seven plans for cyclists, and the only one that is free to premium users is the training for a century ride, i.e. a bike ride of 100 miles. So if you are training for that, you have one plan you can avail yourself of. If you are not, your free plans are useless to you.

I haven’t found all that much of the community either, but in all fairness, I haven’t gone out of my way to get involved.

How many states and countries to I have to cross to get here?

What bothers me the most, though, is that I have raised all these concerns with the site, and there is no response whatsoever. I expect more. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off on a bike ride. Who knows where I’ll end up. I hear Costa Rica is nice this time of year!