Awareness of the outside world. Last year’s IRL ride had problems. “To help riders meet this test better, you can look forward to expanded educational opportunities that will be offered after the first of the year.” The Tevis Cup: Get Ready – Here Comes 2025!, November 11, 2024.
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Virtual Tevis starts today. We did not sign up. Partly, the problems alluded to above. Mostly, us. We are not riding or driving these days (sad face, moving on), so it would have to be 100 miles of hand walking. We’ve done this before. [VT archives]
With our daily morning walk, I am going to come close to 100 miles in 100 days anyway. Last year, the Virtual Tevis was less of a challenge and more of a bookkeeping exercise. The other human in the house is still on injured reserve. He’s okay, but daily walking is out. He could only do it if we rode/drove. [Version 2.0]
Update, this decision was made (and the post drafted) before my foot injury.
Maybe some year we will get back to riding 100 miles in 100 days.
Elsewhere, folks are having fun with this. The Ohio Horsemans’ Council arranges group rides and a finish line party, allevents, Chagrin Falls: The Virtual Tevis.
The IRL Tevis Cup starts July 12th, 2025.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 