I reached my cycling goal today...

[redrhodie]

But, I have a different attitude. It's mostly been fun, with little emphasis on speed, although at the peak of the season, my speed was up where it was 3 years ago, which is fine for me.

I noticed this. When you stopped worrying about speed, your ride reports got more positive.

It's really hard to not be concerned about speed when you're geared that way (pun intended ).

[OakLeaf]

Yay! Sounds like a great year and there's still six weeks left.

[alpinerabbit]

My first thought - so now you're quitting?

[Bike Chick]

Awesome, Crankin! The year's not over yet

[Crankin]

No, I am not quitting. This weekend looks to be great weather, high 50s. I'll probably ride Friday a bit, too. My cold tolerance has gone way up; although Hirakikubou wisely convinced me not to ride tomorrow at 6 AM. It's going to be 25 degrees and although I was willing to try the temperature, there's still a few residual puddles from the rains we've had. Not many, but since my friend broke his hip last March from riding through a shallow puddle that was really black ice, I tend to be wary.
I probably won't bring the road bike inside for the trainer until after Thanksgiving or so. I tend to get the Jamis out if there's sunny days after that, and the roads are OK, but around here, it's dicey. We might have a year without a lot of snow, but even then the roads can be full of mud, slush, salt on the shoulders. I don't have a winter bike and right now I am starting to look get antsy about x country skiing.

[emily_in_nc]

Congratulations - that's amazing mileage! I can just barely remember when I used to ride like that. I feel like I've gone on a lot of rides this year, but they've all been short (nothing > 25 miles) and no more than 2x a week, so I'm still hanging in at 725 miles. Got a late start to the season and was really busy traveling and moving in the spring and early summer, so I'm not kicking myself. I'd hoped to hit 1000, but I'm not going to be too hard on myself if I don't make it.

[lph]

Congratulations! But...um... I have to ask - why 3031? Why not a nice round number? *just curious*