Coffeeneuring 2025
I enjoyed last year’s Coffeeneuring challenge so I was definitely back in for the 2025 edition: Coffeeneuring Challenge 2025: You’re Only 15 Once – Chasing Mailboxes
The challenge is to ride your bike out for a coffee (other beverages are acceptable) seven times over a six week period in October and November, going to at least six different places and riding at least two miles round trip each time.
I got off to a slow start with first immovable (but nice!) commitments and then illness getting in the way of riding my bike. In the end it turned out that the first ride I took was the longest one though. I’d have liked to have managed more long rides but then I’d always like to have more time and good weather!
I sketched out a map of the first ride and then that turned into it’s own whole thing. They were so much more fun to create than just sharing a route map. I enjoyed trying to find interesting stuff to put on the map. Hint: Ride 7 contains the best random fun thing I saw, though I think Ride 2 was the most interesting map.
Ride 1, 26th October
- 🚲 43.91km
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Ride 2, 29th October
- 🚲 12.81km total
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Ride 3, 2nd November
- 🚲 20.19km total
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Ride 4, 6th November
- 🚲 11.58km total
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Ride 5, 13th November
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Ride 6, 16th November
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Ride 7, 23rd November
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Conclusion
- Six lattes, and one ride that began with a home brewed cappuccino and took in a chai latte.
- Seven different coffee shops, five of which I’d never visited before, and only one repeat stop from last year.
- All “drink in” drinks. There were six ceramic cups and one glass. All washable! Actually add another washable cup for the one coffee I had a home.
- More croissants than got illustrated, I can’t quite remember the count (also not trying too hard to remember).
- I managed to stay dry on all these rides (though very much not on others in the same time period). There’s been no snow this year, I’ve just been dodging rain.
- I have bought a new pair of thick winter gloves since last year, much warmer than the old ones. And I found my good summer gloves before one of these rides. Still haven’t found the old summer gloves though.
- 141.3km of riding, up from 126.8km last year. I’m surprised by that, I thought I was missing out on long rides this year but last year I was ill in the middle of the coffeeneuring season (and this year the illness fell at the beginning).
