Back from Europe Bike Update
If you don't bike for six weeks, it's like you haven't biked all winter. I feel slow, and my body is sore. The ride is taking a lot longer, but it is happening. I'm at 30 commutes for the year, which puts me 3 weeks (6 rides) behind a 2/week pace starting from my first commute the week of May 11. If the weather and the schedule cooperate, I should be able to catch up.
It's less likely that I'll be able to hit 1000 miles for the year before bad weather pushes me off the road. I got started too late and I was on vacation too many weeks, so I'm just past 500, or not even to Moria.
However, there is a consolation. In July my office had its second "Bike to Work" month. Last year the prize categories were "most rides" and "longest single ride"; since I have coworkers who bike less than a mile to work and others who cleared a day to ride in 20 miles, I won neither. This year they added "most total miles", which I won with 232.7 miles over 13 commutes. So that's nice. I got a gift card out of it, which is even nicer.
It's less likely that I'll be able to hit 1000 miles for the year before bad weather pushes me off the road. I got started too late and I was on vacation too many weeks, so I'm just past 500, or not even to Moria.
However, there is a consolation. In July my office had its second "Bike to Work" month. Last year the prize categories were "most rides" and "longest single ride"; since I have coworkers who bike less than a mile to work and others who cleared a day to ride in 20 miles, I won neither. This year they added "most total miles", which I won with 232.7 miles over 13 commutes. So that's nice. I got a gift card out of it, which is even nicer.