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.
National | 29 |
trainer | 27 |
Longbow | 2 |
Phon D | 3 |
Pass Mtn | 6 |
Javalina\Classic | 1 |
Usery | 15 |
Hawes | 27 |
Quad Bypass | 1 |
Saguaro Lake\Usery | 5 |
genevieve | 5 |
Saguaro Lake | 2 |
East Mesa Epic | 1 |
6 Shooter Canyon | 1 |
Double Bypass | 1 |
Bulldog Canyon | 2 |
Squealer | 1 |
Tortilla Flats | 4 |
Rocky Point | 13 |
Desert Classic | 2 |
Black Canyon | 2 |
Slickrock | 1 |
Red Rock Park | 2 |
Mt. Elden | 1 |
Dreamy Draw | 2 |
Canals | 1 |
Somo Roadie | 2 |
7 Springs | 1 |
Area 52 | 1 |
24OP | 1 |
Ragnar | 1 |
Milagrosa | 1 |
Porcupine Rim | 1 |
Mary’s Loops | 1 |
The Ribbon\Holy Cross | 2 |
Zippity Do Day\Chutes and Ladders | 1 |
commute | 32 |
Crazy 88 | 1 |
Granite Basin | 1 |
Bill Williams | 1 |
TOWM | 1 |
Hangover | 1 |
Crown King | 1 |
Grand Total | 207 |
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