Miles to go before I sleep... (Actually, four to be exact)

January 5th of this year I got on a bike for the first time in ages. I rode indoors on rollers, and I rode 7 miles.

It took me 35 minutes.

I nearly died.

When I got off the bike, I thought that if I averaged about 5 miles a day this year, I'd be able to finish the year with about 1825 miles under my belt, and I'd consider that quite the accomplishment.

Today I hopped on the bike to ride a quick 4 miles. I wanted to end the year on a round number, and when I was done with my 4 miles, my total odometer read 4,600 miles. That's more that twice was I was hoping for. That's an average of 12.6 miles every day this year.

But here's the cool part. I didn't ride every day this year.

In fact, I only rode 228 days this year. That means that every day I rode, I rode an average of 20.175 miles.

I'll take that, thankyouverymuch.

For 2010? I'm gonna try and exceed that by 25%. I think that's a nice, modest goal. That puts me this time next year blogging about riding 5,750 miles for the year.

I'm gonna enjoy tonight with my family, because tomorrow I've got some riding to do.

Happy New Year.

P.S. It's going to be a lot easier this coming year riding a Madone... I'm just sayin'