rabbit, rabbit!

**Geonz** · 05-01-2007, 07:38 AM

iT'S THE first of may - I'm sort of thinking of shooting for 1000 miles (tho' yesterday's 42 are talking to my body parts!), though I just crossed 2000 for the year yesterday.

**Pax** · 05-01-2007, 08:03 AM

Good grief Sue, you've got more miles on your bike so far this year than I have on my car and motorcycle combined!

I'll get started on that eight mile round trip commute next week though so I may catch you soon.

**jobob** · 05-01-2007, 08:40 AM

I'm with you for the moment Ms. G, I'm at 2002 right now.

Altho I'll be away sometime in the next couple of weeks for family matters so I might not get much riding in this month, here's your chance to pull away.

Don't even ask how many miles Velobambina has, it's too darn depressing. over 3000, gahhh

**KnottedYet** · 05-01-2007, 08:41 AM

Rabbit Rabbit!

Dang, I'm hoping for 1,000 miles for the entire YEAR!!! You gals are stud-muffins! (I think I've got about 300 right now)

**jobob** · 05-01-2007, 08:44 AM

They add up pretty quickly, especially once the weather gets nice.

I'm really impressed with all you folks who live where there is weather to deal with and still manage to rack up the miles. Here in the Bay Area, we've had very few wet rainy yukky weekends so far this year. OMG I hope I haven't jinxed us now.

**silver** · 05-01-2007, 08:46 AM

I don't know if I can do it. But I'm gonna try. I have no hope of ever catching up to you guys! But I'ma chasing the rabbit.

Question? I only just figured out how to see your miles. When I looked at club miles from the club page you are not all there. Then I found the club miles in the stats section of BJ. But I don't understand why the standings are different there????

I was pretty depressed to find myself not even in the top ten in the overall club stats there.

**Pax** · 05-01-2007, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by jobob

They add up pretty quickly, especially once the weather gets nice.

I'm really impressed with all you folks who live where there is weather to deal with and still manage to rack up the miles. Here in the Bay Area, we've had very few wet rainy yukky weekends so far this year. OMG I hope I haven't jinxed us now.

You should see Geonz go! I'll be shivering in my car at a stoplight on a miserable Illinois winter day and Sue will roll on by on her bike looking all happy. I'm humbled and a little ashamed.

**jobob** · 05-01-2007, 08:53 AM

Silver, my miles on bj are under Amici Veloci (as are velobambina's and a few other resident crazies)

Oh, now I see what you're talking about. Some people (like myself) "belong" to more than one club. Depending on how you view the clubs, you'll see either the member's total miles posted, or, just the miles posted to that particular club. I don't know why the two views are different, but they are.

**silver** · 05-01-2007, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by jobob

Silver, my miles on bj are under Amici Veloci (as are velobambina's and a few other resident crazies)

Got it! You guys are awesome!

**jobob** · 05-01-2007, 09:14 AM

Silver, don't be depressed ! (altho there I was joking about being depressed about VB's miles, so do as I say, not as I do, LOL )

The reason why I track my miles is to gauge my own improvement over the years. It's really gratifying to look back at my journal and see how much stronger and faster I've gotten over the past few years, and to see how routes that were very challenging for me a year or two ago are less so now.

There will always be someone who has ridden more miles, climbed more hills, and done it faster. People like that are great motivators, it's fun to see how much individuals can achieve (and wonder "how the heck they can do that?") but don't let others' achievements detract from your own.

Look at how far you've come, after your injury and all, that's the important thing.

yeeks, I'm being entirely too preachy here.

**silver** · 05-01-2007, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by jobob

Silver, don't be depressed ! (altho there I was joking about being depressed about VB's miles, so do as I say, not as I do, LOL )

The reason why I track my miles is to gauge my own improvement over the years. It's really gratifying to look back at my journal and see how much stronger and faster I've gotten over the past few years, and to see how routes that were very challenging for me a year or two ago are less so now.

There will always be someone who has ridden more miles, climbed more hills, and done it faster. People like that are great motivators, it's fun to see how much individuals can achieve (and wonder "how the heck they can do that?") but don't let others' achievements detract from your own.

Look at how far you've come, after your injury and all, that's the important thing.

yeeks, I'm being entirely too preachy here.

Awe, thanks, jobob! I was joking about being depressed too.

I am thankful that I'm even able to cycle at all. I ride because I love it and tracking the miles since my wreck has been a motivation to me. And all of you ladies are a great source of inspiration to me! I'm currently wanting to get faster and am trying out the theory that more miles will help me do that.

I think of looking at the rankings is all in good fun and if it helps us all achive our goals then it's all good.

Finally, someone said in jest to me when I was still just lusting after my Madone that I couldn't have a bike that cost more than the total number of miles that I'd ride in a year. (at that point is cost more than the total number of miles that I'd ever ridden.) So at this point, I'm just trying to earn my bike.

**Thorn** · 05-01-2007, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by silver

Finally, someone said in jest to me when I was still just lusting after my Madone that I couldn't have a bike that cost more than the total number of miles that I'd ride in a year.

oh noooooooooooo....please say it isn't so!!!!!!!! Just how the heck am I ever going to justify that fantasy Seven?!?!?!?!?!

Y'all have got me tracking miles this year...never did it before. It is fun in an odd sort of bean counting way. I did wave at you Silver as you whipped by me in the TE listing, but you were moving really fast and I was just plodding along.

1000 miles in a month?!!?!? Whew! I stand in awe Geonz.

**Running Mommy** · 05-01-2007, 02:17 PM

rabbit rabbit!
Happy May! And as for the miles... I think I'm done with the serious distances for a while. Though I did do 1200+ the first three months of the year...

**Geonz** · 05-01-2007, 02:54 PM

Welp, I talked to my brother yesterday... some time this month or in very early June, he will be taking custody of... my car. I'll have enough money to buy one if I want to (I offered to take his 300,000 mile HOnda as a trade-in 'cause it's basically all the car I'd need but he has other plans for it) but I'm going to see how long I can go car-free.
It's ironic but it will probably be *harder* in the summer than winter, since summer is when I would be inclined to travel to a bike ride somewhere.
It's all about the Gore-Tex :-) And we'll see about the thing I just ordered from Steep and Cheap...

**crazycanuck** · 05-02-2007, 10:17 PM

Many qvestions..

Who is DCMbike on the TE bike journal club?

Do lbiguy & the other top 5 riders at bike journal work? To do 11000km since january

Here I am whining that i've only done 3050km(exact amt is blurry atm) for the year so far!

How will i keep up with you American ladies during our fall/winter? Pooey.

How can i keep Silver at bay...

Stop riding so i can keep up!

C

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