What are your total outside miles for this year, ending June 30, 2007, and not counting miles on a trainer, spinning class or fitness bike? What type of cyclist are you, for example, fitness/fun or racer? What are your proudest achievements with respect to your miles? Finally, how many outside miles do you hope to bike by the end of the year?

This thread is intended to draw in those of us who don't bother to post on Bikejournal and who don't necessarily post to this forum a lot because 1)we are busy cycling and 2)we have busy lives off the computer. And yes, please, those of you who chat in this forum a lot please post your tallies too.

I started a thread like this one at the beginning of April, and it was real fun.

Let me start. I biked 2436 miles. I am a fitness/fun cyclist, primarily a soloist, and I ride with biking buddies when I can.

For the total miles, I was off the bike for two weeks when I was travelling, and responsibilities in my life derailed me on quite a few additional days.

I've increased my number of miles per week. I went down a size in cycling shorts. My jerseys are looser. My HMO assigned me a new doctor who actually reviewed my medical chart and she made her nurse call me and force me into the lab for thorough blood tests because I reached age 53. I am proud to say that my focus on nutrition and diligence with respect to my cycling gave me lab results all in the optimal range, including a fasting glucose of 91, an A1C of 5.4, and a total cholesterol of 130 (with all components of the cholesterol in the optimal range.) Additionally, I got a body composition test and I have a real high lean body mass, and I only have 40 pounds of excess fat to lose. The fat is not my focus; I eat and exercise with respect to my lab numbers so as to remain healthy into old age, to prevent nutritional and stress related diseases, and thus the fat slowly dissolves over time.

I hope to pedal 6000 miles by the end of the year. By next year I want to cycle centuries that are as easy for me as 60 mile rides are this year.

Darcy