Fine question Bill. My goal was to ride the Great Divide MBR and to take my sweet time doing it. My friend and I spent 64 days meandering along, swimming in every lake, pond, river and creek we could find. We brought our Tenkara rods and fished some of the finest trout waters in N.America. We cooked delicious meals from an adequately stocked larder, and we sought out every brewery along the way to sample the finest IPAs the American West has to offer (basically, it was a 3000 mile pub crawl!). The weather was stellar, the riding sublime, and the number of wonderful, generous people that we met along the way only re-confirms what I already know: get people outside, away from TV/media and the agitation it's designed to perpetrate, and we are kind and curious. I saw this many years ago when I hitchhiked around the country, and I saw it again by bicycle this past summer. People are good. Put 'em on a bicycle and they are good and happy.
Cheers, John ps. Never really counted kilometers, but I'd estimate I ride somewhere between 10 and 10,000 per year. When I reach the age of 70, I think I might start counting. On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 4:34:05 AM UTC+5:45, 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.
