I got in one last ride today, a quick ten miler. I couldn't let the year end without riding on the last day. I got lazy the past month or two but that ends tomorrow. I will be back at it, maybe just doing some shorter rides but I want to get back in the habit of riding daily. It will be hard to do on cold rainy days and I may miss a few but I do plan to get back with the program.
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Supersuperleeds nice riding in the Festive 500 (and the entire year). I really wanted one of those patches
, they look really cool, but life ( and work) got in the way and I just couldn't force myself to do the riding at night in the cold weather. It was a let down for me to not complete it but I did have what I consider a successful year for me.
My target for the year was 4000 miles and I got in 6720 miles, lost a lot of weight and was able to get off most of the blood pressure medicine I was taking at the beginning of the year. I can tell I have lost some of the fitness I had gained earlier but I am still much more fit than I was last year at this time. I went out for 10 miles on my rain bike late this afternoon, and now 10 miles feels like a spin around the block, even having been lazy recently and gaining a few pounds and letting the fitness level fall some. It was not like that a year ago. For those of you just starting out, hang in there, it does get better. For everyone here that has been at it longer, great work on the riding and thanks for helping keep me motivated throughout the year. It would have been much more difficult to do without it.
I am going to hedge a little on my mileage target for 2014 and only raise it to 5000 miles. I plan to do some mountain biking this year and I am afraid that where I might be riding may take a little more time to get as many miles in. I plan to still do a decent amount of road riding but going to do some walking as well.
Good luck to everyone in 2014 and happy new year!
