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Yesterday's bike distance: 5.5 miles. With the Kryptolock.

Today's distance: 11.5 miles. Only counting 6.1 of those, though, since a time gap of more than three hours intervened. Again, with the Kryptolock.

Will attempt 7 tomorrow with Kryptolock. The next day, will attempt 7 without the lock, this time going for speed and fewer stops.

one step at a time. All hail Milo of Crotona.

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Also? I bought my three year old nephew a bike helmet. The one his parents got him at Christmas perched on top of his head like a hopeful but confused headcrab, so after I measured his head circumference last week and found it to be in the range normally labeled "14 years old and up", I went to a bike store to get him one. They said child heads have weird shapes sometimes, so get him fitted in person. Yesterday I took him to Dick's Sporting Goods near my parents. I had to talk him out of the helmets with Lightning McQueen on them, as they were all too small. We eventually found a blue and white Bell that fit him okay and met safety standards (which, really, is all that matters in a helmet; so long as they have the safety OK, you can spend as much or as little as you like). When he said it felt okay, I tightened it up in the back, picked him up, held him upside down by the middle, and shook him up and down a few times. It didn't fall off, so I straightened him up and asked a store employee if it was a properly angled fit and he said yes.

So, helmet.