Local cyclist hits 500,000 miles

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No I am not this hard core.

It’s taken 38 years, but David Goetzinger has biked 500,000 miles.

Goetzinger, who rides his bicycle year-round, has ridden at least 10,000 miles each year since 1992, a 28-year streak that includes a personal record of 22,614 miles in 2006.

“It didn’t come easy. I weathered a lot of injuries and illnesses in the process,” Goetzinger, 69, said Wednesday, shortly after reaching the milestone on Louisburg Road in Kieler, Wis.

Goetzinger, who remembers riding his old Schwinn bicycle roughly 20 miles per day while working for the City of Boscobel as a teenager, got back into cycling in 1982, when he officially began keeping track of his mileage.