10 Pedal Days Remain

Day 13 is in the books – almost two weeks done. If you aren’t over half way, we are!! Get to pedaling. There are 5 additional potatoes who are calling it “official” tonight and looking for a new magnet.

Fry Alicia crossed the threshold with 127.81 miles while Tater Excellency got in a total of 115.48 miles to earn a new magnet. Star-Spudded reached 100 miles today with a total of 108.49 miles. Got Tot? is in at 108.33 miles and Yogatato is over the line with 102.00 miles.

That brings our total to 63 potatoes that are finished and official. Our Swishers – Swisher Sweet Potato and Dicktater are leading the pack with 317.00 and 298.29 miles respectively. There are 156 taters on the road so one more got off the couch today. That leaves us with 25 DUD SPUDS who took the time to sign up but haven’t pedaled at all yet.

Potato Happenings

Duchess Potato was out for the famous (and annual) “Mathews Post Office” ride while Yam Kronen was out celebrating with another Biker Chick who became an official Potato on their weekly ride today.

Senator Spud was out burning those pizza calories and Mythical Patata did her first indoor ride of the tour – the heat finally got the best of her.

Potato Chip Rock has been playing chauffeur for the last couple of days and got a chance to get out again today.

I’m on my way downstairs to hop on my bike for some indoor miles – gotta get closer with the days counting down.

We did get some feedback on the age question from yesterday. We have reports of a 72 year old riding – he’s been with us for several years – and a 78 year old riding her first tour. Our oldest finisher I remember, off the top of my head, is 81 – but I’ll research to confirm. That was my mom so she pops into my head the quickest. I think our youngest was 8 or 9 – again, I’ll do my research! Regardless – y’all rock getting out there to pedal. I know some of our DUD SPUDS in training are envious.

Administrivia

With all of this pedaling, our potatoes have totaled 14,736.46 miles. Only 15,260.54 miles left to meet that “extra challenge” I threw out there.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

Report miles here: Mileage Entry

Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber