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Old 12-18-15 | 01:04 PM
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At the beginning of the year my cyclocomputer's odometer was 7665.6, and when I checked it the other day I think it was at like 9777 (so close to 10Kmi! since I got back into biking maybe 6-7 years ago), so that's a little over 2000 miles ridden this year -- not counting rides on untracked bikes. Since I haven't moved my B harness to my new hardtail yet, that may actually be more like 2500 total (which would put me over 10K mi...)

Most of the riding was commuting: 163 days and counting. MDAS 11mi r/t almost always, so that's about 1800. I lost a full month of bike commuting in the summer when I was recuperating from a bad ankle sprain (from playing Ultimate). My car was driven only about 2000 miles this year (way more than 2014, which was 861 miles!). I hope to live the rest of my life with more annual bike miles than car miles. That's kind of deceptive, we have two cars, and the family minivan was driven plenty, I'm talking about driving "my" 2nd car. So I'll say I want to continue to have more bike miles than 2nd car miles -- until the kids are all out of the house and we can get down to 1 car.

In Aug I participated (I wouldn't say 'competed') in the Devil Dog Duathlon (co-event with the Semper Tri) at Camp Pendleton. It was my second year, I dropped my time almost 10 minutes from 2:09:44 to 2:00:11 (didn't quite crack that 2h barrier! Next year!). I did a 1:08:37 for the 30K bike ride, which is avg 26.2 kph/16.27 mph. Not record-breaking I understand, but pretty good for this middle-aged clyde. (Also my teenage son did the du with me, and I beat him on the bike leg by 29 seconds. He crushed me on the runs)

This fall the wife and I bought new mountain bikes (to replace our 199x GT Backwoods hardtails), we've been having a lot of fun on local trails.

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