One Day To Pedal, That Is – yep, we have one day to pedal, potatoes. Remember, pedaling ends tomorrow at midnight. All miles MUST be entered by midnight on July 25th.

Spud Drowsy leads our pack of potatoes over the finish line today with 128.1 miles.

Erin Loves Spuds made her final ride over the finish line a fun one, despite the flat tire and wraps up with 105.4 miles and a thank you to her biking bud, Later Tater.

The most fun part of Helmer Spud’s 102.9 miles was beating Kartoffel Kaiser to the finish line – we know she’ll get there though and is there a name change in the works?

Robert Bakes Potatoes and Pig-Pen Potato have finished with exactly the same mileage. They both check in with 101.97 miles, exactly.

Spuddy Holly is over the line for another magnets, hit the century mark with 100 miles, bringing our total number of potatoes over the line to 156.

We have pedaled over 27,400 miles and have 55 potatoes who have started but are still not over the line. Hopefully most of them will make it tomorrow. Several of those are within 20 miles of the finish line and a couple of those work with me – you don’t want to hear about it for the rest of the year, do you?

I’m also looking at these 57 potatoes on the couch. Definitely some DUD SPUDs in training. We’ll see how many of the remaining 55 who started are going to join them.

Potato Happenings:

Tri Potato got some additional miles today riding back and forth from the lemonade stand. Her potatoes in training (one hers, the other a friend) set up a stand along the VA Cap Trail.

Salt Life Yam was cut off by a car (be careful potatoes), unfortunately, it was a police car. Fry Alicia was also cut off – only by a deer. It happened while she was climbing, so again, crisis averted. Everyone is reporting in OK and no mashed potatoes.

Bramboregg had the rain wash away the oil from his chain. He just bought some anchovies at the supermarket and used the oil to lube the chain and keep going.

If you see Potato Chip Rock, wish him a Happy Anniversary – he rode a mile for each of the 34 years today. Congratulations on the anniversary and the ride.

Harley Taterson is closing in on Paris (97.2 miles so are) and his yellow jersey arrives Monday. He’s ready to show it off.

Administrivia:

Log your miles using the exact email you registered with or they won’t show up. Pedaling ends at midnight, July 24 and all miles need to be entered by midnight July 25.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

Report miles here: Mileage Entry

Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

With 2 days remaining the battle for most miles pedaled is heating up. Decapitato logged 51 miles – he does NOT want to be out ridden this year. Come on Swisher Sweet, make him earn it!! As for those over the line today, we may have a new record with 17 potatoes becoming official today. Our total potatoes are now at 150 and our miles are over 26,400. Pedal potatoes, pedal.

Finishing it up at the top of our list today is Fitz and the Tater Tantrums with 141.5 miles. Uetz Chips is also over the century mark at 114.4 miles. Few Potato isn’t far behind with 112.5 miles.

Spuds McKenzie and Papa Spud are in a dead heat with 107.7 miles. Space Yam is done and has a new magnet after pedaling 105.2 miles. Loaded Potato is only two tenths back with 105 miles, crossing with Meadow Lark Potato, also with 105 miles. Spuddux is done after 104.1 miles.

Billy Spud has 102.4 miles for his magnet while Grape Tater pedaled 102 miles for his. Bean Counting Potato is also at 102 miles. Only a tenth back is Mama Spud with another magnet and 101.9 miles. Pedaler McPotato also pedaled 101.9 miles to earn a magnet.

Closing out our day are Spudasaurus with 101.1 miles, DrewTuber with 100.9 miles, and Sweet Spud with 100.8 miles. Congratulations to all of our newest magnet earners!!

We still have 57 potatoes on the couch – DUD SPUDs in training?

Potato Happenings:

I didn’t get everyone’s comments today as I’m out of town but we’re really racking up the miles. Taters rocking it out! Only two days left so pedal on, potatoes.

Good luck if you aren’t finished. Take your remaining miles, divide by 2, and pedal away. Remember to log any miles you have pedaled so far so our tracking is accurate. Check below for specifics on when pedaling/tracking are to be complete.

Administrivia:

Log your miles using the exact email you registered with or they won’t show up. Pedaling ends at midnight, July 24 and all miles need to be entered by midnight July 25.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

Report miles here: Mileage Entry

Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

With only 3 days to pedal, we have surpassed 25K miles. We also have 8 new taters checking in today bringing our total official potatoes to 134.

Today we celebrate with Salt Life Yam and her 107 miles. Verdant Potato is also over the line with 105.5 miles. Cajun Gator Tater has another magnet with 103.3 miles – this tour followed hip surgery but HAD to get that magnet and keep the streak alive. Dolly Partato pedaled 101.2 miles for her magnet.

All in a bunch, these four potatoes finished within about a tenth of a mile of each other: Spud Ice with 100.7 miles, Incognito Potato also with 100.7 miles, Spudly Beach Bum also has 100.7 miles and Microchip has 100.6 miles and a big WHEW as she finished.

Way to go stomping on those pedals to earn a magnet.

Seventy seven potatoes are still looking for the finish line and will be crossing soon. We still have 57 potatoes on the couch – DUD SPUD here they come.

Potato Happenings:

Tuberski is finishing up while touring colleges – does she know she has .8 miles to go – SOOOO close.

Tombet Tuber is pedaling to the Tour in France – I haven’t seen it yet today but hoping you had as much fun as they did.

Potato Prez pedaled to Assateague National Park to see the ponies. Scenic tour – or is that Scenic le Tour??

Good luck if you aren’t finished. Take your remaining miles, divide by 3, and pedal away. Remember to log any miles you have pedaled so far so our tracking is accurate. Check below for specifics on when pedaling/tracking are to be complete.

Administrivia:

Log your miles using the exact email you registered with or they won’t show up. Pedaling ends at midnight, July 24 and all miles need to be entered by midnight July 25.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

Report miles here: Mileage Entry

Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

With only 4 days to pedal, we’re adding 5 official potatoes to our list today.

Tater Tot is over the century mark with 104.8 miles while Spuddles checks in with 101.6 miles. Yamyscira is pedaling away on vacation and has accumulated 100.9 miles and another magnet. Also finishing up today is Spidey Spud with 100.5 miles and SpuderLee with 100.3 miles.

Congratulations to the latest magnet earners. You all contributed to getting us over the 24,000 mile mark.

That will bring our total official taters to 125 with an additional . We have 86 potatoes still pedaling away but not yet crossed the century mark – I know some will make it but how many? Fifty seven potatoes remain on the couch, one less than yesterday. They are in jeopardy of becoming DUD SPUDS with only 4 pedal days remaining.

Potato Happenings:

A quiet bunch today. Potato Prez is reporting a flat ride from OC to Bethany and back but everyone else is pretty quiet out there. Just looking for the century mark if they aren’t already there.

Good luck if you aren’t finished. Take your remaining miles, divide by 4, and pedal away. Remember to log any miles you have pedaled so far so our tracking is accurate. Check below for specifics on when pedaling/tracking are to be complete.

Administrivia:

Log your miles using the exact email you registered with or they won’t show up. Pedaling ends at midnight, July 24 and all miles need to be entered by midnight July 25.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

Report miles here: Mileage Entry

Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

Our pic today is paying tribute to all of our indoor cycling the potatoes are doing this year. Pedal anyway you can to get those miles in – so far, we’re over 23,000 of them.

Let’s add 9 new official potatoes to our list today:

Robert Tuberson is finished with a new magnet with 114 miles and only a mile behind is Rocky Potato with 113 miles (and lots of hills).

Super Chipski has also crossed the century mark with 104.6 miles. Pump up the Yam has a new magnet with 103.4 miles and Fauling for a Spud is hot on his trail with 103.2 miles.

Uprooted Potato is done with 100.5 miles and only a tenth behind is Gator Bait Tater with 100.4 miles. Also just over the line is Blu Tuberry at 100.1 miles while Potato Loco hit 100 miles exactly.

Congratulations to all of you!

That will bring our total official taters to 121 with an additional . We’ve still got 89 potatoes who have started but not yet crossed the century mark – will they make it? Fifty eight potatoes remain on the couch, in jeopardy of becoming DUD SPUDS with only 5 days left to pedal.

Potato Happenings:

Happy Birthday today to Tri Potato – I’ll just say she didn’t have time to ride 49 miles.

Cajun Gator Tater rode the exact same mileage two days in a row. With 6 miles, he’ll need to throw in another 3 tenths and earn a magnet.

Pig-Pen Potato is getting a late start – two rides in but up to 40 miles already. With that kind of average, he’ll have a magnet for sure. Keep it up!

Administrivia:

Log your miles using the exact email you registered with or they won’t show up. Pedaling ends at midnight, July 24 and all miles need to be entered by midnight July 25.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

Report miles here: Mileage Entry

Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

The pedaling continues fast and furious as potatoes everywhere are scrambling to get those miles in before the end of the day Sunday. We have 11 more who made it official today – magnets all around!

Tot Diggity is the farthest over the line today of all our new potatoes with 112.9 miles. Later Tater crossed the finish line as well and earned a magnet with 110 miles.

Loly Pop is happy each day of her riding and now has 106.6 miles and a new magnet. Manntater is hot on her trail 106 miles even.

We called it yesterday but to make it official, CompuTater is over the century mark with 105 miles – and other potato witnesses.

Potato Sticks has another magnet this year, finishing up at 101.7 miles while Gravi-Tater is chasing her down with 101 miles.

Home Fries saw that shout out yesterday and sprinted to magnet number 11, checking in with 101 miles.

Melatater and Haus of Spuds are crossing the finish line together with 100.6 miles. Bananayama is the 11th tater we’ll shout out today coming in with 100.3 miles.

Congratulations to all our potatoes who made it official today.

We’re over 22,300 miles today with 111 official taters. We’ve still got 210 potatoes pedaling and 58 potatoes on the couch with only 6 pedaling days left.

Potato Happenings:

The “leaders” battle is still going between Decapotato and Swisher Sweet Potato but Swisher Sweet has now taken the lead by about 7 miles. This one could go down to the wire but they are both closing in on 550 miles.

Bubba Spud is slowly closing in on magnet 12 with 13 miles to go now. Working on magnet number 10 are Mama Spud at 85.4 miles and Rocky Potato at 97.1 miles. So close – y’all got this!

Tri Potato is off her taper from her ocean swim race yesterday (3rd in her age group) and back to pedaling. CycoTater is on the road as well, racing groundhogs. She tracked it until he headed off to his burrow.

Administrivia:

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Results so far are here: Reported Miles

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Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

Never sure where you’ll find potatoes these days, but willingly boiling themselves?

As our weekend draws to a close, we celebrate four more official couch potatoes, bringing our total to 101.

Bandit Yam has another magnet as he checks in with 117.5 miles. Also earning another magnet with 109.5 miles is 50 in 50 Potato. Potato Cake is also over the century mark with 103 miles and hitting 100 miles exactly is Tattie Tater.

Congratulations to all our latest century cyclists.

We’re over 21,500 miles as of today with 210 potatoes pedaling. 58 potatoes are still on the couch with 7 days of pedaling left.

There are 109 potatoes who have started pedaling but aren’t yet over the line. Sending MAJOR cheers your way as you wrap this up. Take your remaining miles and divide by 7 – target that many miles per day…you got this!

Bubba Spud is only 17 miles from magnet 12 and Home Fries is only 9 miles from magnet number 11. If you see these two potatoes, send them positive thoughts as they finish out for these milestones. I’m checking in on those who are looking for magnet number 10 in tomorrow’s update!

Potato Happenings:

Later Tater had a fun and fan-Tater-tastic time. Le Tour helped motivate her back to her bike after Covid. Thanks fellow taters, from Later Tater.

Yogatato, Spudly, CycoTater and CompuTater were all out pedaling together. They had a non-tater along for the ride as well (maybe next year?). They all watched CompuTater turn into an official tater at mile 12 (we didn’t get CompuTater’s miles in time to make it official today but look for that tomorrow).

Fry Like an Eagle and Oh-Kay Tuber (I think) are touring the Great Dismal Swamp – not dismal at all. It’s reported as very pretty but you must watch for bears.

Microchip is finding the hills easier today – nice surprise for her!

Administrivia:

Log your miles using the exact email you registered with or they won’t show up. Pedaling ends at midnight, July 24 and all miles need to be entered by midnight July 25.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

Report miles here: Mileage Entry

Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

Madam Tuber partied a little too much tonight so the update will be short but we cannot shortchange our potatoes who made it official today.

Nine potatoes earned their magnets today, crossing the century mark. Leading the pack is Yogatato with 106.5 miles. Baked Potato is right behind her with 106.1 miles. Blooming Spud has another magnet to her credit with 103.1 miles.

Shout out to Countess Tater to pedals just about everywhere these days (including to the Salty Dog) – she’s got 102.9 miles. Maraschino Potato is over the finish line with 101.7 miles (the kids will be proud). Zappa Patata is done with 101 miles exactly.

Spud Luda is just finished with 100.7 miles and Even Stephen Spud is also in the 100 mile mark with 100.4 miles.

Hitting 100 miles exactly for magnet number 11 is Texas Potato – he should have ridden the first year with us 🙂

With only one day into the weekend, we’re already over the 20K mile mark with 20,405 miles. We have 96 potatoes who have made it official with 209 who are pedaling.

Potato Happenings:

Lots of happenings today and I’ll do a better job including them tomorrow. Madam needs her beauty sleep – tired Tater!

Administrivia:

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Results so far are here: Reported Miles

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Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

As this crazy group of pedaling potatoes make their way into the third weekend of Le Tour, we’re celebrating another 11potatoes who made it official today. Check out the O’Shaughnessy beer fridge above if you want to see some magnet goodness as well.

Crossing the line today:

New Potato finished up with 111.9 miles and what is becoming a TdCP tradition on the W&OD starting at Purcellville terminus and Magnolia’s for lunch.

Got Tot? has 108.5 miles as of today – and a magnet on the way.

Tot Louie celebrated his 108.2 miles today – using the TdCP as his motivator.

Chipper Jones crossed the century mark with 108.1 miles and La Nuova Patata hot on her heals with 107.9 miles.

Cash in Your Chips cashed in today with 104.7 miles, just ahead of Artful Tuber and her 104.5 miles.

Potato Jam has another magnet for the beer fridge after pedaling 104 miles while Yamma Rae finished up with 102.1 miles.

Nip it in the Spud, Golly D Tater and Christmas Potato are all finishing today with 101.1 miles. I’m guessing Golly D and Christmas rode together. Nip It has an extra .01.

We’re up to a total of 86 official potatoes with 18,875 miles pedaled. With the weekend coming, I’m sure we’ll see 20,000 miles, much like Lubbock, in the rear view mirror.

And what’s with the 60 potatoes on the couch? Not a mile pedaled for any of them?

Potato Happenings:

Erin Loves Spuds is our inspiration as we go into the weekend. Her husband helped map out a new ride near Mt. Wachusett in Massachusetts. They live in an area with quite a bit of hills, which is awesome and also intimidating. Having dealt with lots of setbacks physically since having 3 kids, today was one of her proudest cycling moments. She knows she has it in her to do even more. Happy Friday Taters from Erin! – half way there, go Erin.

Potato Chip Rock rode in Spain, then France, then Italy – three grand tours, one day, reverse order.

Loly Pop is happy to be pedaling, whether out on the road or indoors on the trainer. Pedaling away. Incognito Potato was out on a beautiful morning ride as well.

Administrivia:

**Note: Tomorrow’s update will be delayed as I’ll be jammin’ at a concert until the wee hours!

Log your miles using the exact email you registered with or they won’t show up. Pedaling ends at midnight, July 24 and all miles need to be entered by midnight July 25.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

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Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber

Once again, we have a plethora of potatoes over the finish line. Today there are 9 potatoes who made it official.

Yamirez is finished up with 125.5 miles. Fat Tire Tater had less than a mile to go for a couple days and got over the finish line today with 109.5 miles. Rain or Shine Tater is all done for another year (but I bet he’ll log more miles) with 106.4 miles. Simmering Spud is also finished up – she’s got 104.3 miles.

Yam Kronen has another magnet this year with 103.3 miles and just behind her is Star-Spudded who finished one day prior to her personal goal with 102.8 miles. Coming in hot is Iron Tater with 102.4 miles. Commissioner Potato and Disorderly Tater (lots of lawlessness there) are both finished with 102 miles.

It looks like our total miles today is just shy of 17,700 and we now have 75 official potatoes. 207 are off the couch, leaving 61 still lounging.

More Pedaling by the numbers – Pedaling potatoes who provided age info:

1 is in the 80s

21 are in the 70s

72 are in the 60s

61 are in the 50s

36 are in the 40s

19 are in the 30s

8 are in the 20s

4 are in the 10s

others put their birth year as 2022 so we’re not sure…

Potato Happenings:

Fry Alicia is working on indoor climbing for the Copper Triangle.

Try Potato is stuck indoors as well (and not happy about it) as she misses the Capital Trail.

Ain’t No Tater High Enough was out with four other potatoes today – some official, some still working to earn those magnets. Sounds like all are having fun though.

Administrivia:

Log your miles using the exact email you registered with or they won’t show up. Pedaling ends at midnight, July 24 and all miles need to be entered by midnight July 25.

Results so far are here: Reported Miles

Report miles here: Mileage Entry

Happy Pedaling,

Madam Tuber