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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
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Thread: Riding... December 20th
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12-20-2006, 07:38 PM #1
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Riding... December 20th
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... 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!!!
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12-20-2006, 09:17 PM #2
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12-20-2006, 10:57 PM #3
What's next? A half iron?
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Wow, 8000 miles! Wow. I am thoroughly impressed!
It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Elliot
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12-21-2006, 04:35 AM #4
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8,000 miles
Wow.~ Susie
"Keep plugging along. The finish line is getting closer with every step. When you see it, you won't remember that you are hurting, that anything has gone wrong, or just how slow or fast you are.
You will just know that you are going to finish and that was what you set out to do."
-- Michael Pate, "When Big Boys Tri"
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12-21-2006, 08:15 AM #5
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Congratulations thats a lot of miles.
Originally Posted by 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!!!
Hey Jobob dont go saying 4000 miles is measley or I will feel really depressed Im trying to hit 4000 kms before Xmas.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
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2006 Colnago C50 road/SSM Atola
2005 SC Juliana SL mtb/WTB Laser V
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12-21-2006, 08:22 AM #6
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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!
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12-21-2006, 08:31 AM #7
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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. Originally Posted by Geonz
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
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12-21-2006, 08:32 AM #8
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Wow, congrats on the amazing mileage! 8,000 is quite a bit of miles
! It gives me an idea for new year's resolutions.
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12-21-2006, 02:13 PM #9
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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.
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12-21-2006, 02:18 PM #10
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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.
