Hey Bill - Great question! I never really tracked annual mileage (I have been riding for over 45 years) until I started using Strava in mid-2013 to formally track mileage. I knew that I rode a fair amount annually (I have 3 sons and a wife who all like to ride + commuting regularly) - I logged a little under 7,000 miles in my first full year tracking my mileage. I decided to make it my goal to reach 10,000 miles in a year - I had a couple of years of in the mid-9,000's and I began to think it may not be possible given my family and work commitments. I should also mention that I live in Minnesota and I only count actual outdoor rides (no Zwift, etc.). Last year (2017) saw particularly mild weather all year - the favorable temperatures combined with a commitment to train for the Leadville 100 MTB race allowed me to FINALLY squeak past the 10k mile mark.
2018 was a different story - a cold, harsh winter (18" snowfall on April 15th) and a chilly fall (snow in mid-October) combined with some time off the bike due to a few broken ribs has curtailed my mileage a bit. I adjusted my goal for the year to 7,500 miles - I am currently at 7,257 miles. Hopefully I can ride like Steve someday! On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 4:49:05 PM UTC-6, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Steve Palincsar shared some info about himself that I think is awesome. > Unfortunately that great info was in a thread that was otherwise generally > icky. I'm breaking out the inspiring nugget out. Specifically, Steve said: > > "I and many, if not most, of the folks I ride with are well over 70" > "2018 was a bad year weather-wise, and my mileage is way off from last > year; instead of just missing 11,000 as was the case in 2017, I think I'm > going to finish 2018 with only 9,000. " > > Regardless of one's opinion about "Just Ride", septugenarian cyclists > putting down 10,000 mile years is freaking fantastic in my book. Steve is, > I think, very close to my father's age (if my father was still alive). I > hope to be laying down the big mileage of a Steve Palincsar when I'm in the > neighborhood of 75. 2018 is already my biggest mileage year ever. I've > got a puncher's chance at reaching 10,000km by year's end. I turn 50 in a > couple months, and I still work full-time and am still raising two > teenagers, so I'm anticipating major gains in the free-time department as > retirement approaches. My goal was to put down my first ever documented > 5000 mile year, and I've done that. I've got a little more than 1000 miles > to go to reach 10,000km. I also have wanted to do a half-million feet of > climbing in a calendar year. That won't happen for me in 2018, but I'm > about to hot 400,000 feet for the first time. > > What 2018 cycling goals did you set and achieve (or not-achieve)? What > goals will you place for 2019? > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
