I had to (HAD TO) ride on December 31st. My compulsive nature required it: earlier in the month I noticed that I was in third place for the most total new miles ridden in Alameda County, CA on Wandrer.earth. The prize for logging the most new miles was ~300 points. In second place above me was my friend Doug. In first place was a rider who I don't know. I clicked their map and this is clearly a San Jose cyclist who has done "everything" in Santa Clara County and has explored randomly but impressively up into Alameda County. So, given the challenging but achievable mileage deficit, and the identities of the competition, I decided to take a run at it. I made a big push on Dec 28th, riding 100k on the one nice day between storms. I did a short rainy ride on the 29th and a very short one on the 30th. I had only 6 miles to go on the 31st, but the weather was really dreadful. For context, it turned out to have been the wettest single day in San Francisco in the last 170 years. I chose a very flat residential neighborhood on Alameda Island to go pick up my 6 new miles. I rode about 14 miles total and picked up 8.5 new miles and was absolutely drenched. I certainly had the roads to myself. Fortunately it was not terribly cold.
In almost any other situation, it would not have been a day for riding. I was pleased to achieve my target of winning the annual Wandrer bonus, and I'm finding that those small, measurable victories help my state of mind. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, January 2, 2023 at 8:09:09 AM UTC-8 brok...@gmail.com wrote: > Not much of a “last ride” for 2022, but a good ride nonetheless. Here’s > the only pic I managed to take - of my buddy Huston (who’s long been a > member here) on his Atlantis as we made our way to our local Trader Joe’s > to stock up on snacks and provisions for New Year’s Eve: > [image: image1.jpeg] > > On Jan 2, 2023, at 9:47 AM, ascpgh <asc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No pictures but I rode home after work about 9pm Saturday in the rainy > 40°s. > > > Andy Cheatham > Pittsburgh > > On Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 4:59:57 PM UTC-5 DavidP wrote: > >> What was your last ride for the year? >> >> We've been hit with an unseasonably warm spell and this afternoon temps >> were in the 50s. I went exploring and found a spot I hadn't been to before; >> not a bad way to end the year. >> >> [image: GR001-004600_bartlett-1800.jpg] >> >> Looking forward to the first ride of 2023! >> >> -Dave >> >> >> -- > 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d275277f-49e0-4f93-9a45-1af0dee41b56n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d275277f-49e0-4f93-9a45-1af0dee41b56n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5b0d05be-b955-40b2-a808-320856fa7759n%40googlegroups.com.
