Riding... December 20th

[Geonz]

... yea, it's late, but I didn't get in 'til a little while ago.

HIT 8000 miles for the year today :) :) :)

(Ahem... poor "howard..." who wanted to catch me in my annual miles and lit my competitive flame... he lives in Colorado. Need I say more? At least now he has a way of accepting defeat with dignity... it's not as if he could catch upto me in a blizzard!)

A drizzly - but just drizzling; not nearly as wet as the radar looked! - day, so I rode the Gazelle. The folks at a birthday party I went to thought it was grand. I was totally impressed by one guy who arrived about when I did, saw the bike parked outside and said "maybe you want to move it into the garage?" and I said, "but it's already locked." It wasn't locked *to* anything... it's that funky European lock that keeps the wheel from moving.
He walked over and picked it up and put it in the garage - he knew about those kinds of locks already. Like, dude, what a cultured bunch :)

Howard's got studded tires, though, so I gotta get out there tomorrow!!!

[jobob]

Congratulations Ms. Geonz, I was rooting for you !

Now I need to go over to bike journal to see how gracefully Howard is accepting his inevitable defeat.

I hope to hit my measly 4000 mile goal by Chistmas Day :)

[kelownagirl]

Wow, 8000 miles! Wow. I am thoroughly impressed!

[Offthegrid]

8,000 miles :eek: :eek: :eek:

Wow.

[Trekhawk]

... yea, it's late, but I didn't get in 'til a little while ago.

HIT 8000 miles for the year today :) :) :)

(Ahem... poor "howard..." who wanted to catch me in my annual miles and lit my competitive flame... he lives in Colorado. Need I say more? At least now he has a way of accepting defeat with dignity... it's not as if he could catch upto me in a blizzard!)

A drizzly - but just drizzling; not nearly as wet as the radar looked! - day, so I rode the Gazelle. The folks at a birthday party I went to thought it was grand. I was totally impressed by one guy who arrived about when I did, saw the bike parked outside and said "maybe you want to move it into the garage?" and I said, "but it's already locked." It wasn't locked *to* anything... it's that funky European lock that keeps the wheel from moving.
He walked over and picked it up and put it in the garage - he knew about those kinds of locks already. Like, dude, what a cultured bunch :)

Howard's got studded tires, though, so I gotta get out there tomorrow!!!

Congratulations thats a lot of miles.:)

Hey Jobob dont go saying 4000 miles is measley or I will feel really depressed Im trying to hit 4000 kms before Xmas.:eek:

[Geonz]

They're all miles (or km) and they're all good... they're all more than the folks still sitting on their couches.

Commuting gives me that base of 70 miles/week... it's just a bit of a head start, and it also means I start the nice-weather times able to go longer right away. Then that HOward guy got me cranking out the November/December miles just 'cause he was **SO** confident. Welp, his little blizzard has slowed him down a little, but he'd already slipped further back (and I'd already ridden through some almost-as-nasty weather myself... 8 degrees with 20mph winds one day...)

Today's all rainy so it'll prb'ly be just the commute and an errand or two. I love the Gazelle in the rain, though!

[Trekhawk]

They're all miles (or km) and they're all good... they're all more than the folks still sitting on their couches.

Commuting gives me that base of 70 miles/week... it's just a bit of a head start, and it also means I start the nice-weather times able to go longer right away. Then that HOward guy got me cranking out the November/December miles just 'cause he was **SO** confident. Welp, his little blizzard has slowed him down a little, but he'd already slipped further back (and I'd already ridden through some almost-as-nasty weather myself... 8 degrees with 20mph winds one day...)

Today's all rainy so it'll prb'ly be just the commute and an errand or two. I love the Gazelle in the rain, though!

LOL - you are right if you had told me a couple of years ago that I would even be riding a bike I would have thought you were nuts. Im just so pleased I wont be spending the rest of my life ignorant to the joys of cycling.:)

[missymaya]

Wow, congrats on the amazing mileage! 8,000 is quite a bit of miles:eek: ! It gives me an idea for new year's resolutions.

[Aint Doody]

Wow! Way to go--and I'm still proud of my almost 3,000 miles--I need 50 more, but I will get them before the end of the year.

[Velobambina]

You go! That's a great accomplishment, especially since you live someplace that has a real winter. Did you ride through the snow last year or is that all no-snow/no-ice miles?

What's up with Howard writing in the third person all the time? I can't even read his posts on BJ because of it.