Archive for January, 2008

January Riding

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Proper rides: 62 miles (metric century ride)
Commuting: 91 miles (16 days riding to work and back)
Business: 39 miles (3 trips to work via Hurworth)
Misc: 10 miles

Total: 202 miles

A metric century and riding to work and back every day (I must have had a week off riding last January) gets me 50% more miles in January […]

Phew! Almost missed the 200 miles for the month!

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I just got an email cancelling the work than normally means an extra 8 miles of riding tomorrow. With my normal commutes, that would put me 2 miles under 200 miles for the month!

Luckily, when it was really windy last week, I took the longer route to/from work, but still counted it as 5 […]

Undercounting?

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I remapped my commute this morning, so someone could export it as a GPX file and tell me my height gain. It turns out that the round trip is 5.6 miles, not 5 miles like I assumed. Over 195 working days, that’s an extra 117 miles per year!

I’m going to keep logging it […]

A metric century

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

A metric century on the road, on an unsuitable bike. I found an 85km route on Bikely and added a little to it to get it up to a round 100km. Darlington - Shildon - Sadberge - Neasham - Girsby - North Cowton - Darlington.

Hard going on 32:16 with big tyres.

Distance: 62 miles […]

An extra 3500 miles in 2008?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

One hundred miles a week is 5200 miles per year. On the one hand, that’s slightly more than three times what I did in 2007. On the other hand, it’s only 14 miles a day.

2007 Biking

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Another year of commuting by bike all through the year, but otherwise a very patchy year for riding, with five months where I didn’t ride at all, other than for getting to and from work.

1684 miles for the year, which is about the same as last year. Somehow, I did 14 non-work rides again […]