Reached the 1000 mile mark!

[li10up]

I'm so excited. I was logging yesterday's ride into my notebook last night and found that I had reached the 1000 mile mark for this year!! I looked back and last year I reached it on July 30th...so...progress!! I also saw that I am riding at least 1 mph faster on solo rides than I did a year ago and about 2 mph faster on group rides. Not huge leaps but not bad for someone who isn't really training...just going out and riding. Now I'm REALLY starting to think how much I might improve if I did some interval work.

[indysteel]

Congratulations!!!!! I noticed the same things in looking at my journal, so I know how excited you must feel. Great job!

[jobob]

Excellent!

[mimitabby]

pant, pant, pant, I'm right behind you!
(you aren't keeping your miles up to date on BikeJournal?)

[Batbike]

awesome!!

[li10up]

pant, pant, pant, I'm right behind you!
(you aren't keeping your miles up to date on BikeJournal?)

I need to catch it up. I enter them in there a chunk at a time...I hate getting online at home...it is soooooo sloooow.

[mimitabby]

oh bummer.. I 'll never catch up then.

[MyLitespeed]

Almost there, didn't feel like riding last night so I'm still at 987 miles. This weekend I will make it for sure--have two rides coming up.

[Crankin]

Great job! My goal is 1,000 by June 1st. I have 726 now, so it IS possible, if I keep commuting 2 days a week. The past two years it was mid June before I hit this and 3 years ago, it was July. I tend to go up a lot in July and down in August (burn out?).
Our warm fall and winter, plus doing a century helped me get to 3,000 miles, passing my goal of 2500 last year.

[Geonz]

y'all make me feel better... there are *three* IL folks ahead of me by 30-100 miles... I nudge a little closer and then they nudge back out... and I have to go back and read that thread about not getting obsessed with distance or miles
(Then there's that raleighdon... I"ll get on his tail and then he goes and does a brevet ... but that's okay, it's fun just to keep showing up in his mirror )

[mimitabby]

Yes, Geonz you are driving him crazy.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Wild- I was about to post that I had reached my 1,000 mile mark for 2007 just today, and here was the thread on it waiting already!

On this date last year I had not even sat on a bike in 38 years!!!!!! Since then I have ridden several thousand miles. I find it hard to believe how much I have been able to do in one year.
Biking is the absolute best.

[FreshNewbie]

I am nowhere near you high milage gals I ride only on weekends and 2 spin classes during weekdays. So not counting my indoor miles I am near 400 miles so far I wish I could ride my bike on weekdays too but it's just impossible with my schedule and all.


Jealous FN

[indysteel]

Wild- I was about to post that I had reached my 1,000 mile mark for 2007 just today, and here was the thread on it waiting already!

On this date last year I had not even sat on a bike in 38 years!!!!!! Since then I have ridden several thousand miles. I find it hard to believe how much I have been able to do in one year.
Biking is the absolute best.

Lisa, same here! I got back on a bike for the first time in about 20 years last June. If I recall, my first ride was 7 miles long. And I crashed. Since March 11th, I've ridden about 1200 miles for the year and am doing my first century (at least that's the plan) over Memorial Day weekend.

My whole life has changed because of cycling. It's amazing what can happen in 12 months' time. Yay for all of us!!!!!

[li10up]

Indy and Lisa - way to go! My first year back on the bike, 2005, I didn't even reach 1000 miles - 700 and something - so you two are doing fantastic!! Indy does more longer rides so I'm sure she'll crush me by the end of the year. I'm still trying to figure out when I can do my first tour of the year...other things just keep getting in the way.