As the 2011 outdoor riding season came to a close for me, I've compiled stats from the year and share them with readers.
Outdoor Riding Season 2011
Total Miles rode 1213.85
Total Hours riding 143.84
Total Days riding 147
Total Weeks of riding 35
The outdoor season started on March 21, 2011 and my last ride of the year was on November 26, 2011. There was a week in April where we had a late winter storm with snow and there was no outdoor riding at all. It's official we had the wettest year on record and I am not a rainy day rider so weather plays a big role in Michigan outdoor sports. Of those 35 weeks days of riding ranged from 1 to 6 days per week with most weeks falling into the 5 day range. Rides were nearly an hour in average and that is time spent moving on the bicycle. Actual time out was considerably longer due to rest time, stopping for conversations and photography, exploring on foot and sightseeing and minor repair work.
A forum that I frequent had an indoor riding challenge (TE December indoor riding challenge) and I managed to eek out just a tad over 8 hours on an indoor trainer. Indoor riding on a trainer is loathsome but a necessary evil to keep up with fitness and not lose the gains that I spent the summer achieving. It comes with living in a climate that has severe swings in temps and gets snow covered in the winter. The upside is that regular riding through the off season months allows me to hop back on my bike outside in the spring without spending time getting acclimated all over again. Keeping up a healthy heart rate and aerobic fitness allows me to expand on my goals for the coming year, push a bit harder and achieve more. This year my speed picked up from the previous year and hill climbing improved, however I have a long way to go with hills.
The Team Estrogen forum is continuing the challenge into January and that will help to keep me motivated. I look to outling goals for 2012 and posting them here as a committment for the coming year.
Lastly I am posting a link to a fun post in a blog that I follow from a fellow bike rider in the UK. Mixedbabygreens is the blog and I thought this little video was so cute it just tickled me, hope you enjoy it too. Mixedbabygreens bicyle bell choir playing Auld Lang Syne
I hope that each of you had a great year of bicycling! I thank the readers of this blog for your patience in following with my ramblings and adventures and wish the cyclists out there to have a smile on your face and the wind at your back.
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