This was my final commuting ride of this year. Interesting year. I managed 14 more rides for 120 commutes this year. Very happy with those numbers. About 1/2 of working days were riding.

Now the deeply disappointing results I dropped 0.1 mph and did not gain speed over last year. I had hoped for better. Two of key warm months, Aug & Sept, saw me driving most of the time because of severe thigh soreness. I have been unable to get speeds back up. Either too winded or no umph in the legs. Any suggestions for next year would be appreciated.

Maybe we could all agree, humm, well maybe many of us could agree on a rating for commuter rider levels.

Something like this:
weeks / year == 50
max rides / week == 5
target rides / week == 3


Commuter Levels
rides Metal
200 platinum
180 gold
160 silver
140 bronze
120 copper