First bike ride of 2007
In 2006, I didn’t get on the bike until April 18th, and took my last ride on September 20th, only managing a little over 340 miles for the year. On the plus side, I started working my way up to an eventual goal of doing a century, setting a personal best 40-mile trip over the summer, before life pretty much fell apart.
All that aside, I got on the bike today for the first ride of 2007 and the first in months and put 5.7 miles on the odometer, most of it uphill. The body feels just fine afterwards, and there’s a pleasantly familiar “raw”-ish feeling in the lungs from cooler air (and lots of it). Definitely a lot easier to get up a hill when it’s 70°F than when it’s over 100°F. :)
Here’s to much more oxygen and many more miles in 2007!