2009 on Bike Journal

[uk elephant]

My 2009 riding has finally started too and I just logged the first 5 miles on bikejournal. Not much, but every little bit adds up, right?

[Possegal]

I signed up. I hope I don't pull down the team average. :-) I'm not much of a long distance rider, though hoping to improve on it this year. And this is the first time I've tried riding in the cold weather. So maybe I won't be too much of a team albatross.

[RoadRaven]

Not much, but every little bit adds up, right?

Absolutely, UK. I enter everything in my log... even 1-2kms when checking a new component on a bike, or 3-5km round the paddocks with my youngest son. Everything counts.

Enjoy every little bit

[OakLeaf]

RoadRaven, you didn't warn us your m8 was going to hog the #1 spot!


j/k

[Geonz]

Average doesn't matter - total does. Everybody helps

I was the first American (either america) to post in 2009... 'cause I had to get back from that NY Eve party. I was #23 for a few minutes!! (Now ... 600's somewhere...)

[li10up]

I too like those km. Wish I would have updated my stats for December...I had another 300 miles that would have put me at 6517 km for the year - enough to jump into the top 10! oh, well...what's important to me is that I made my goal of 4000 miles! My most ever in one year.

Well, check that, looks like I would have been 11th. pooo

[RoadRaven]

RoadRaven, you didn't warn us your m8 was going to hog the #1 spot!
j/k

Hehehe... I did ask if anyone minded... am happy to take him off our team at BikeJ if anyone has an issue. He is what would be classed as a minimum Cat 2 rider in the states - possibly a Cat 1. He does do LOTS of time on the bike.

[RoadRaven]

I signed up. I hope I don't pull down the team average. :-) I'm not much of a long distance rider, though hoping to improve on it this year. And this is the first time I've tried riding in the cold weather. So maybe I won't be too much of a team albatross.

As Geonz said, average doesn't matter. BikeJournal just tallies up team mileage totals... and every bit counts.

As for being our albatross... most excellent - have you ever stood and watched them fly over head? I did for the first time in 2007 at Dunedin... awesome creatures... an albatross would be an elegant and beautiful bird to be likened to... besides, don't they travel miles and miles and miles? You might end up our team leader with a nic like that!

[OakLeaf]

Hehehe... I did ask if anyone minded... am happy to take him off our team at BikeJ if anyone has an issue. He is what would be classed as a minimum Cat 2 rider in the states - possibly a Cat 1. He does do LOTS of time on the bike.

No, no, he's welcome as far as I'm concerned. Just kidding!!

[bikerHen]

It's not as snowy here but still icy enough to make me stay home. Hopefully it will melt tomorrow and I'll get some miles in this week. If I start missing the snow can I come visit you bikerHen? I'm from Nebraska and used to snow during the winter!

Lora

Come on up! Although with the wind and rain we've had the last two days the snow is melting fast. Now of course there are huge, HUGE puddles everwhere. Of course there's still lots of snow in the mountains. bikerHen

[Aggie_Ama]

You must not be where it is flooding bikerhen?

[uk elephant]

I find myself getting surprisingly competitive about this, and I'm not a particularly competitive person. I have been logging my 8.5 commuting miles as soon as I get home from work, seeing my ranking climb. Then today, I was down one spot again!