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that is how much i missed averaging 8 hrs of spinning time per week this year.  Not bad, considering I set out with the intention of getting 7 hrs a week, and i still managed about 3.5 hrs a week of lifting/yoga/hiking/swimming.  When I saw I was getting close, i thought i might just be able to pull it off with a late-game surge, but Wolf Creek and Xmas were too much to overcome.  409.75 hrs.  And really, i mean…big fucking deal.

Well the big deal is…i’m goal oriented, and anal retentive.  As fate would have it, I did much of the work on this post while spinning on the trainer, and as hand editing the table code took a while, it became a rather lengthy workout. And i planned to ride Hawes during my WFH day on Tuesday, and National on Wed. Just about enought for 416.  However, that would actually be 366 days since it was a leap year, and my weeks began last year on 12-31 with a 2.5 hr roadie ride, making 367 days.  Hmmm…it was all making my head hurt , and did not actually affect the 5lbs I heaped onto my ass this xmas season.

207 days on the bike, with an average ride being about 2 hrs.  National, Hawes, my commute and my trainer made up over half my rides, and if you threw in Usery on the roadie and Rocky Point you had almost 70%.  I loosely call anything on Somo that includes National to be National - 24th, Geronimo, Mormon, CL etc so it wasn’t like i was getting bored.  Same goes for Hawes.  And that left 60 more rides to do a whole lot more of more of everything else.  I did more everything else than I did last year, probably 30 different rides.  I did not get me enough Flagstaff, and missed Goat Camp, but the substituions were good ones like Hangover and Area 52.  Roadieing was a little less than last year, but not by much.  What I lacked in hrs I made up for in Tortilla Flat rides.  But not a single roadie event all year.

The commute was the obvious big difference from ‘07, and, I stopped logging bullshit rides with G or Kila.  The only times the parks, Red Mtn Ranch or a trip to Indigo Joe’s got recorded was when I actually sweated and got my heart rate up - rides like that were generally ignored, used to make me feel good about a 1:40 ride getting logged at 1.75 hrs, or maybe add 15 minutes if I cruised 5 miles in an hour.