May 4, 2014 will be Day #1234 of my streak. As the title says, I can't take it anymore. I've run out of goals and I'm burning too much gas. Daily roundtrips of 40-50 kms each is getting crazy. It was fun. Time to move on to other things.
But I still needed some significant day to stop on. Otherwise I'd just keep going one day at a time. I tried to give the end of it to my long-suffering wife for her birthday. She said, "No way! I'm not going to be blamed for ending it! No anniversaries, Christmas, or Valentine's either!" Nothing else significant coming up, so I figured the only way was to pick a day and make a big deal out of it. The bigger it is, the harder it is to back out.
A public statement by way of an event should do the trick. I'll throw in a ceremonial handing off of the Mantle of the Manitoba Streak to Bike4Me. He can take over the longest active Manitoba streak and if he keeps it up for a few more months he can even have the longest Manitoba streak title. So come on out everyone - the more people who show up, the harder it'll be for me to grab just one more on Monday.
Much as I love wings, I've never looked forward to a wing night as much as this one.