I am participating in Project Hero's "Ride Inside Ride" - Honor Ride on August 22 in support of injured veterans and first responders. We are coming together for a fun, virtual 30-mile ride to help provide recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration services to healing heroes across the country. There are thousands of veterans and first responders who deeply rely on Project Hero's life-changing programs that improve their mental and physical health and wellness. Please donate to my page and help us save lives by restoring hope and purpose for those who have served.    

My first virtual ride with Project Hero on Rouvy App was on May 20, 2020. I started riding with Project Hero riders twice a week and have built up to everyday per week. After my 14 day trial period with Rouvy, I signed up for a yearly subscription of Rouvy! I forgot to mention, Project Hero riders are on a conference call so we can encourage one another.

On June 20, 2020 I signed up for Rouvy’s Hamburger #7 Challenge (6-20-20 to 7-26-20). Basically, Rouvy “challenge you to burn the equivalent of 20 hamburgers - that’s 14,400 KJ! Finish this fun Challenge, and enjoy the delicious taste of guilt-free victory!” Since signing up for this challenge, I have been riding twice a day with one of the rides with Project Hero riders. We are able to create a "friends list of Project Hero riders" and we have been competing / encouraging one another!  So far, we have ridden in 14 countries! As of 7-16-20, I have burned 14251 KJ in 620.53 miles in a time of 41 h 43 min. I am currently ranked 33rd among the women competing in this challenge.  I'm on scheduled to have burn 14,400 KJ by 7-17-20. However the challenge does NOT end until 7-26-20 @8:00pm. I want to be ranked in the female category less than 30th, so I have more kJ to burn!

While riding on the Landsberga to Kromsta course on 7-17-20, I reached my goal of burning a total of 14400 KJ for the Rouvy Hamburger Challenge since June 20, 2020. My fellow Project Hero riders celebrated with me at estimated mile marker on the course. Thanks to the professor's (Bruce) estimate. Also, Bruce designed a chart to let me know how many minutes I would need to ride for each ride based of my Avg Watts, in order for me to burn the required amount of KJ per ride. I would not have  attempted the challenge if it was not for Bruce's chart! Thanks Bruce!  I then designed a spreadsheet to estimate the day I would complete the challenge based on the required KJs burned per day.

Also, on 7-4-20, I rode my longest ride on Rouvy. I rode the “GFNY Cozumel” course at 48.61 miles. I rode it in 3:24:53 with elevation of 377 ft. I rode this by myself. I attempted it the day before with the Project hero riders but was exhausted and I stopped at 20.12 miles (1:17:42).  I needed more recovery time from the previous day's ride.

1,591.8 miles and climbing … from 5-3-20 to 7-26-20 with Project Hero HUB Global Virtual Cycling plus extra rides when I have ridden 2 or more rides per day for about 25 days within the above dates.

While I still continue to deal with a multitude of medical and mental challenges, I'm focused on changing my lifestyle by riding my bike with the Rouvy App using my Wahoo KICKR. It's a blast!

ISAGENIX products, eating healthy and virtual cycling with Project Hero riders to help improve my health (physically and mentally) and eventually reach a weight of 150 lbs, which was my weight when I enlisted in the U.S. Army in May, 1994.

The ride is also to bring awareness of the 20 veterans that die each day due to suicides and also to reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness / Bring Awareness to Suicide Prevention. 

Update: Another day of riding on 7-26-20, I have burned 22988 KJ in 1007.29 miles in a time of 66 h 28 min for Rouvy's Hamburger Challenge that began on 6-20-20 and ends on 7-26-20. I am currently ranked 12th out of 702 women competing in Rouvy's Hamburger challenge. I am currently ranked 288 out of 6340 men & women competing in Rouvy's Hamburger challenge. It is getting me ready for the "Ride Inside Ride"-Honor Ride on Aug 22, 2020! 

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I'm currently competing in the Rouvy Climbing Challenge from 7-24-20 to 8-23-20.

As of 8-19-20, I have currently climbed 9,172.50 / 6000 m with a distance of 464.36 miles and time of 34 h 29 min.  I'm currently placed 39th in the womens category!

Rules & Prizes

"Climb up at least 6,000 m. INDOORS or OUTDOORS during the Challenge period. Feel free to choose any route you want to, but Challenge routes must have a combined average ascent of over 0% in order to qualify. The Challenge ends August 23 at 12 p.m. UTC."

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I'm currently competing in the Rouvy Endurance Challenge from 8-15-20 to 9-13-20.                                                                                                                    

Time to get some endurance miles! Go for a long ride and add some miles to your training diary. You can go slow but, you have to go far!

 Routes: (Date Completed)

(1) Col de la Colmiane (from Nice)

(2) Tour de Suissel |Fiesch - SEDRUN | Pt 3

(3) Ride Of The Fallen Leaves 2015 - Pt 3

(4) SKODA Velotour Skyline (8-16-20 - Completed)

https://my.rouvy.com/virtual-routes/detail/34872

Rules & Prizes
Finish all of the announced routes to get a chance to win a ROUVY subscription. You can ride each route as many times as you want during the August 15th -13 th September time period. The order in which you ride the routes is up to you. The challenge ends September 13 th at 12 a.m. UTC.

Important note: You must ride and finish the selected routes in a "RACE MODE."

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I have currently ridden 1,895.88 miles since May 3 on the Rouvy App with my Wahoo KICKR along with Conference Calls on Project Hero Virtual Rides with Project Hero riders plus my own additional rides on Rouvy when I was riding 2 rides per day! 

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To move from the Elite Level to Regional Level, the following requirements:

Congrats, you are now an Elite athlete. If you want to stay elite, you need to be sure to train with the elite. We are really going to test your abilities and you may feel some pain. Oh, and there is plenty of climbing coming your way!

*RouteRide "Fred Whitton Sunny 2015 - Pt 8". (completed)
*RouteRide the route "Alongside The Rivers".   (completed) 

*Ascended Climb up Mount Everest (8848 m) in one month  (completed)

*1 / 2 Multi Challenge Complete at least 2 challenges

         :1 challenge completed Rouvy's The Climbing Challenge. (completed)

         :1 more challenge to completed Rouvy's Endurance Challenge 

Routes:             

        (1) Col de la Colmiane (from Nice)
        (2) Tour de Suisse| 6 |FIESCH - DISENTIS-SEDRUN | Pt 3
        (3) Ride Of The Fallen Leaves 2015 - Pt3
        (4) SKO DA Velotour Skyline ( 8-16-20 - completed)

 * Points Collect at least 1200 points in this level (completed) 

 TurboTRDPro_Missy on the move.

Thank you to our The 2020 "Ride Inside" Ride sponsors