Coffeeneuring Rules
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2025: You’re Only 15 Once
Readers. Bike riders. Randonneurs. Always Be Coffeeneuring Club members. Scenesters. People (on Earth)! It’s back again and it’s a big one. That’s right, it’s the 15th edition of the Coffeeneuring Challenge. You’re only 15 once so let’s make it the most of it. Saturday, October 11, we launch. If you ride a bike, enjoy low-key… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2024: The Year of Small Wins
Readers. Bike riders. Randonneurs. Members of the Always Be Coffeeneuring Club. Everyone (on Earth)! The season has arrived. Year 14 of the Coffeeneuring Challenge. I’m pretty excited to say that we’re still here. We are still here and October 6 we roll. If you ride a bike, enjoy low-key adventures, drink coffee or tea (or… Continue reading
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2023 Coffeeneuring Challenge: Grand Patch Prize Reveal
So this is what the day after the Coffeeneuring Challenge 2023: Lucky 13 feels like. The sun did not shine and it rained all day here. We need the rain, though, our part of the country has been in a drought. So can’t be too sad about the showers and wet sidewalks. The end of… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2023: Lucky 13
Hello readers, randonneurs, bike riders, members of the Always Be Coffeeneuring Club, and everyone else who finds themselves reading this post. Have you given any thought to your fall plans? I have. I’d like to encourage you all to join lucky year 13 of the Coffeeneuring Challenge. On October 7, the Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge returns!… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge: 2022 Submissions and Prize Reveal
Friends, we are in the thick of the 2022 Coffeeneuring Challenge, with three full weeks remaining to fit in your rides. Keep riding, you can do it! We have also reached the point in the challenge where some coffeeneurs have completed all seven required brewvets and are on to c+1 bonus rounds. Keep going, it’s… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2022: Year 12
Does anyone know what time it is? I’ll tell you. It’s time for the 2022 Coffeeneuring Challenge, now in its 12th year. On October 7, the Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge is back and this time we have an Intern to help run the challenge! If you ride a bike and drink coffee or tea (or even… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2021 Control Cards and Design Reveal!
The 2021 Coffeeneuring Challenge kicked off this past Monday, October 18 and the official season is now upon us! Many pedaled out early on their challenge pursuits, but if you have not, do not fret. You have plenty of time to cross the finish line. Still wondering what this coffeeneuring business is all about? Click… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2021: the c+1 edition
October 18, 2021, the Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge returns, now in its eleventh year. Yes, 11! My friends, if you ride a bike and drink coffee or tea (or even hot chocolate, coffee stouts, or cider) please consider this fall challenge. The Coffeeneuring Challenge is a time to lightly turn the pedals, make the most… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2020: One Good Thing
Where shall we start with 2020? I have an idea. Let’s start with one good thing. On October 10, 2020, the Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge returns. That’s right my friends, if you ride a bike and drink coffee or tea (or even hot chocolate, coffee stouts, or cider) and are on the hunt for one… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2019: Eight is Great and So Are We
On October 11, 2019, the Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge returns for another year. That’s right my friends, it’s year eight for this relaxed cycling endeavor for people everywhere. If you like riding a bike and enjoy drinking coffee or tea (or even hot chocolate or cider), consider this fall challenge. Eight is great, and I’d… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2018 Prize Reveal!
It’s go or no-go time for the 2018 edition of the Coffeeneuring Challenge. If you want to be part of this year’s activities, you must begin coffeeneuring this week. There’s no time to lose, friends, just get on your bikes and ride them to a coffee shop near you. Bam! One down, and six to… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2018: The Best Intentions
The Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge is a relaxed cycling endeavor for people everywhere, and it’s coming your way once again, starting October 12, 2018. If you like riding a bike and enjoy drinking coffee or tea (or even hot chocolate or cider), consider this fall challenge. Back for year eight, the Coffeeneuring Challenge has almost reached the age of… Continue reading
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Seven is a Lucky Number: The 7th Annual Coffeeneuring Challenge
My favorite birthday card ever was from my seventh birthday. The card read: “Seven is a lucky number That’s what people say And so your seventh birthday Ought to be your lucky day.” The Coffeeneuring Challenge turns seven this year, surely a lucky year. Ironically, we kick it all off on Friday the 13th of… Continue reading
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6th Annual Coffeeneuring Challenge: The Spirit of Coffeeneuring
Now in its sixth year, the Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge is a relaxed cycling endeavor for people everywhere. If you like riding a bike and enjoy drinking coffee or tea (or even hot chocolate or cider), consider this challenge. In a nod to the French as well as randonneuring, the Coffeeneuring Challenge has its share of rules. Don’t let… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge 2015: A Dream Within a Dream
Now in its fifth year, the Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge is a relaxed weekend cycling endeavor for cyclists everywhere. If you like riding a bike and enjoy drinking coffee or tea (or even hot chocolate), consider taking on this challenge. In a nod to the French as well as randonneuring, the Coffeeneuring Challenge has its share of rules.… Continue reading
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Fourth Annual Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge
Coffeeneuring season has arrived! Hard to believe that the Coffeeneuring Challenge is now in its fourth year, but I looked at my calendar and it really is true. From 12 participants that first year to over 125 last year, coffeeneuring continues to grow. I hope you will consider giving it a go this year. Coffeeneuring… Continue reading
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I was Going to Complete the Coffeeneuring Challenge, but… Honorable Mention Category!
Maybe you entered the Coffeeneuring Challenge with great ambitions, but other things in life got in the way. I know. It’s hard to imagine what can keep people away from coffee and their bicycles, but it happens. Not to worry. You can still submit the coffeeneuring rides you accomplished and perhaps be eligible for the… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge Housekeeping
As the Coffeeneuring Challenge heads into the final two weekends I thought it a good time for some coffeeneuring housekeeping. Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge Update: Government Shutdown Rule
Today is the day! After another year of waiting, the Coffeeneuring Challenge begins again. Where will you ride? How will you plan your weekends to complete all seven coffeeneuring trips? Continue reading
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Third Annual Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge
Coffeeneuring is based on an idea from Joe Platzner, member of the Seattle Randonneurs. As he discussed life after the 2011 edition of Paris-Brest-Paris, he noted: A bunch of us have trained pretty hard for PBP. After PBP, I’m probably going to lobby RUSA for an official “Coffee Shop Run” medal. To earn it, you… Continue reading
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2nd Annual Coffeeneuring Challenge: 7 Cups, 6 Weekends
That’s right, people. Coffeeneuring Challenge time. Another six weeks of rule-based biking and imbibing is here! Yeah! Some of you may recall that coffeeneuring is based on an idea developed by Joe Platzner, a member of the Seattle Randonneurs, as he discussed life after last year’s Paris-Brest-Paris. He noted: A bunch of us have trained pretty hard for PBP.… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Rules Update! Columbus Day Weekend
Coffeeneurs, look up from your Kindles and cappuccinos! I bring you a special update about the Coffeeneuring Challenge! Tara, a Chasing Mailboxes reader and coffeeneur (or technically, a coffeeneuse), noticed a potential loophole in the Coffeeneuring Challenge, and asked: Does Columbus Day Monday count as a “weekend” day if I promise only to do two… Continue reading
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Coffeeneuring Challenge: 7 coffee shops in 6 weekends
If you read The Daily Randonneur, you may recall my interview last month with Joe Platzner. At the end of it, he noted: A bunch of us have trained pretty hard for PBP. After PBP, I’m probably going to lobby RUSA for an official “Coffee Shop Run” medal. To earn it, you need to ride… Continue reading
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