Originally Posted by PhoenixBiker

There's still another six weeks or so of "good" riding weather left, so the season hasn't yet reached its end. Bottom line, though, I'm pleased. When this year began, I wasn't sure I would ever log any significant mileage again. I'd been off the bike for 16 years after back surgery, two bouts with cancer and an assortment of lesser physical setbacks. I did my first outdoor ride of the year in late April, a 7-miler. Today my mileage log reads 698.2 -- not great, but not bad considering how ridiculously wet our summer was here in West Virginia.

At 63, with my medical history, I probably won't ever be a 3,000-mile-a-year rider again. Even so, this feels pretty darned good.