All right, gang, check your entries in the mileage thread and think back on your year. How did you do? Did you set goals, did you meet them? Did you learn, were you happy?

I'm a part-time commuter. I think I could have done more than 1000 miles in a normal year but instead this year did mid 500's, which would be less than 50 days commuting, out of a year with around 210 work days. I missed the prime riding season of mid spring to late summer due to a home improvement project taking up the daylight, and then the birth of my son and associated family leave. I can't call it a loss, the reasons were good.

I switched this year from a MTB-with-slicks to a C&V road bike and I generally liked the change. I was able to use my shut-in time during the paternity leave to rebuild the Super Sport and get it working, and it's been good to me so far. With the road bike I switched to a hard saddle. This actually added a lot of time to my commute as it required me to dress out in bike shorts. It more than ate the speed advantage of the road bike.

During my wife's pregnancy and following, I gained a lot of weight and lost a lot of fitness. I'm getting it back but I'm not as good now as I was in mid-2012.

I was feeling a lot more self-righteous about biking in 2012-13 than I have in 2014.