Just another Century

On the Board in '26.  Sub Freezing Century with the High maybe making it to 30?  Started out with 21 at 5AM, dropped a few degees to 18 at Sunrise. .  Average Temperature ~24.

7.4 Hours

7.1 Hours / First Ride In Two Weeks / This ride I surpassed my first 5 digit (10,000 mile) year of 1984.  14,127 miles that year!

7.3 Hours / 112 miles for 112th Century of '25 / >14,000

Now over 14,127 miles for the year,  That was the distance I covered in 1984 at 18-19yo my first 5 digit (10,000 mile) year.  That was my 5th year riding.  In '83 I had ridden 8,500.  New Years Eve I came up with the idea to go for 5 digits / 10,000.  A few weeks earlier in December '83 we had moved from Cherry Hill, NJ to Broomall, PA.  Here I was only a half year out of High School and in a new area.  It was moving out of PA to Cherry Hill, NJ in December '79 that became the genesis of my becoming more serious in riding.  This move back into PA in early December '83 was the 9th place I lived in.  By the next December we would move again making for 10, the 11th a bit more than a half year later.  I had no plans.  College wasn't in the works.  I had my weekend job all through HS back in NJ.  So finding a job was what came naturally - finding one in March that year.  Work and riding was all I did.  Shattered 10,000, finishing with the 14,127.  I got involved  with the Delaware Valley Bike Club, made some friends, and we did a lot of of those annual big rides all the various clubs in the tri-state (and beyond) had.  Rode my first Double Century as well in 1984.

I think there were at least a dozen cones at the corner of S Line Rd and Wabash Rd in Stevens. One survived.  I quickly got out of there before Pete Kegsbreath could finish the job.  Also lost were at least four of those solar marker lights.

Looks like somebody bought a soft pretzel two-pack at Wawa, started to eat one as they pulled out onto 272 N in Ephrata, didn't like it, threw the remainder out their driver window. I myself find those Wawa soft pretzels barely tolerable. 

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7.1 Hours / First Ride In Two Weeks / This ride I surpassed my first 5 digit (10,000 mile) year of 1984. 14,127 miles that year!

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Just another Century

On the Board in '26. Sub Freezing Century with the High maybe making it to 30? Started out with 21 at 5AM, dropped a few degees to 18 at Sunrise. . Average Temperature ~24.

7.4 Hours

7.1 Hours / First Ride In Two Weeks / This ride I surpassed my first 5 digit (10,000 mile) year of 1984. 14,127 miles that year!

7.3 Hours / 112 miles for 112th Century of '25 / >14,000

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