Hey Cyclesome--

I'm with you at just over 500 miles this year. I have had a mountain bike for a couple of years, and only ridden it sporadically, but this May I participated in Bike to Work Month. I'll be darned if all that riding didn't get a bit addictive...so I kept commuting by bike in June, began extending my range a little bit, and just took the plunge to buy a road bike a couple of weeks ago. (Whee, is it zippy!)

I ride for fun and transportation, solo so far (a couple of rides with my husband). I look forward to gaining the confidence to do a group ride. I'm a bit of a slowpoke, but I'm getting stronger all the time--I don't have to stop and walk up that one "hill" home from work anymore!

When I was a kid my siblings and I used to ride our bikes all the time during summers. My brain has thus made an apparently permanent connection between "bike" and "vacation"--every time I get on my bike, even to ride to work, I get that "wheeeee, I'm on a bike, this must be a vacation!" sensation. Here's hoping that feeling lasts forever!