Pawtucket, Rhode Island · Begins 1 October

Three hundred miles. Thirty-one days. Three bicycles.

A hand on the drop bars, the rider's shadow thrown across the asphalt
$50 raised of $500Every mile pledged to the American Cancer Society

I love cycling, but I suffer from the inertia that shackles me to my computer every day. I’m so grateful after every ride, and I still struggle to get up, pull on the shorts, and set out. So this October I am riding three hundred miles for the American Cancer Society, and putting every one of them on this page as I go.

Rides appear here from 1 October

300 Miles in October
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 Peugeot · 0 mi Orbea · 0 mi Iguana · 0 mi

The standing · not yet started

Nothing down. Three hundred to go.

The clock starts on 1 October and runs to the thirty-first. That is 9.7 miles a day if I ride every day, or a shade under 70 miles a week. Everything on this page fills itself in from Strava as the month goes.

The month, day by day

Each box inked in to the height of that day's ride.

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Nothing inked in yet. The Ride Against Cancer falls on the twenty-fifth; the rest is up to me.

Every ride

Routes as ridden, from 1 October.

Nothing yet

The first card lands on the first ride

Each ride in October gets one of these — the route as drawn by the GPS, the distance, the time, and which bicycle carried it.

where I need to be 1 OCT 31 OCT

The climb

The only line on the chart is the one I have to beat.

The dashed line runs from nothing on the first to three hundred miles on the thirty-first. My own line starts drawing itself on day one, and the gap between the two is the whole story of the month.

Why I am doing it

Every mile I ride is pledged to the American Cancer Society.

I love cycling, but I suffer from the inertia that shackles me to my computer every day. I’m so grateful after every ride, but I still struggle to get up, pull on riding shorts or a bib, and set out.

I love big ambitious goals, and when this cause came to my attention I knew I had to do it. Like everyone, my life has been impacted by cancer — so many loved ones have battled it, and raising some money while riding is literally the least I could possibly do to honour their fights.

Raised so far
$50
of $500 · 1 donation
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