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17.26 miles park ride today,
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A bicycling app I use is called STRAVA. There are clubs you can join in the app. Some clubs have "Challenges".
I joined a challenge that started today. It's not that difficult of a challenge. There are challenges that are way above my skill level.

Le Col Vuelta Challenge
Celebrate the third and final Grand Tour of the season and ride 120km (75 miles) to earn a £50 ($60) Reward.
August 24, 2019 to September 13, 2019

The $60 reward is for their online bicycle gear shop (jerseys, gloves, etc).
You also earn a badge, a virtual badge which is an icon that displays in your "trophy case" (webpage).

Now that I have started the Challenge, my bar in the app is filling up. The more you ride the more the bars fills till it is complete.
It also tells you what place you are compared to the distance of others who joined the Challenge.
For example right now there are 107,787 joined and I am in place 17,647/22,553 (Others have not yet bicycled.).

I also joined this Challenge that starts September 2:

The Escape Plan

Leave your distractions behind 5 days a week for 4 weeks.

Sep 2, 2019 to Sep 29, 2019 — 9 days until start

Get moving 5 days a week for 4 consecutive weeks.

(Minimum of 15 minutes of elapsed time per activity)
Participants354,250
Build healthy new habits, and receive an Escape Plan finisher's badge in your Trophy Case.

16.29 miles park ride today,
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My wife gave me this bell as a gift when I got the new bike:
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Some Berliners are a little flipped out:
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and like to punch each other in the head:
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A house canon for home defense:
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Fish pond:
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A sign says no bicycles allowed in the USSR WW2 Memorial but I needed to cut to the other-side so I carried it up the steps:
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When I got to the other-side it was blocked by construction so I pushed it across the grass you are not supposed to be on:
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When I got to that gate it was blocked by construction too, so I went back to the side I came from. What a waste:
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Tomorrow I have to go schedule surgery for my leg.
A vein collapsed and is causing blood to pump in the wrong direction.
I am sure it sounds worse than it is. No one looked or sounded very concerned.
I been wearing a compression bandage for three months and then was asked if I wanted surgery.
I said: No I’ll stay with this for another three months. Because I just got a new bicycle.
But now I am thinking to have the surgery because I read it could lead to a heart problem.

Big 40.91 miles scouting/beach ride today,
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I went up the elevator and then saw there was a crossing...
The crossing below,
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The elevators,
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Was hot today. My daughter’s school sent all the students home early because of the heat.
I told her, next time meet me at the lake!
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I finished the LE COL challenge 16 days early.
Got a code for 60 dollars for their online shop.
They have nice jerseys.
I am currently in place 34,168 of 103,474 participants and can still climb the ladder till it ends.

33.95 miles today, beach/around-the-lake ride,
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Found a great gravel path hidden in plain sight (simply turn right, I mean left.)
It goes a long way, I turned off on a dirt track and then onto another gravel path.
It’s great! Need to scout it out completely.
I have been on and passed many trails that go off to the unknown.
It will take years and years to scout them all.
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My daughter was let out early from school again today because of the heat.

25.71 miles on the last day of August. Rode to the lake and met my family there,
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Looked like a music video was being made at the graffiti wall.
Think I mentioned not all the artists are male.
Here is the female I have seen, doing her thing,
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This is a picture I took many hours later going home,
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I rode through a park that has a mini train,
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It’s a great park, exceptionally great I would say, but one of the great things is this drinking fountain that provides a stream of cool water with no need to push a button. A jogger arrived right behind me and we took turns drinking, which he told me is the camel method. I told him I am from NYC and most water fountains don’t work. He said in Geneva they have water fountains all over the place that works just like this one (constant stream). I was like Wow (mind blown),
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I now have a solid route to the lake that includes four different woods with long trails that takes me there.
I am very happy about that,
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