Wow. 17,000 sounds ambitious!

I went back and looked through my Bike Journal, because I wasn't really conscious of how much I have been climbing per month. It's really interesting! In the last 2 years, my biggest ever month was 49,290!! (May 2005 in heavy duty Death Ride training). But (1) my Februarys(ies?) tend to be a bit slow (10260 in 2005 and 11,745 in 2006), (2) I am not able to ride much at all during the week these days and (3) I am still "medically limited" so I will set my goal at 11,000. This will be a challenge as even our DR training rides are pretty mellow in February.

My "least" climbing month was November 2005 with 6470. The last full month I rode last year I logged 37,450.

Statistics are fun!