What’s happening . . .

The touring society discontinued the total miles challenge at the end of 2024. This optional challenge allowed us to record all of our riding, whether on club ride or on our own. Results were reported in the Freewheel newsletter and awards issued at the end of the year. Few members were participating and the board decided to discontinue it. But, we received enough inquiries into continuing the function that we have set a new challenge for 2025 on the Ride With GPS website. Visit the [2025 Mileage Challenge](https://ridewithgps.com/challenges/30180?privacy_code=2WKSokel2d0lyt05hHB06lYzfkFeWxos) to sign up or view the current leader board. If you are not already a member of Ride With GPS it will prompt you to sign up for an account at this point. The free basic account is all that is required.

While I was at it, I created a climbing challenge. Sign up for the [Mountain Goats Challenge](https://ridewithgps.com/challenges/30337?privacy_code=gp4e45kwnTAB6ctIfBqdKPL6ss4qPgiM) to see and share your altitude gains over the year.

The 2024 Mileage Report is now available at the "More Information" link below. In addition to the usual breakdown of rides, trips, and miles for the year, this report includes a listing of Career Miles. This is all the club miles we could find for every member covering the years 1996 through 2024 (23 pages of listings). If you want to find your entry I recommend using your browser's search function (Ctrl-F in most windows browsers) to find your name. Data for the earlier years is pretty sketchy. Gathering it involved a lot of manual entry from old newsletters. If you think your data is shorted, let me know and I will update it.

Finally, this is the last report that will include total miles. We will no longer be collecting and reporting miles outside of those reported for club rides.

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