I know I’ve been really bad about posting here. There are things I’ve wanted to write about, but I just haven’t been able to make myself sit down and take the time to actually do it. So, I figured I’d do a brief wrap up of my year in riding. As you can see from the sidebar at left, I’ve done more riding this year than I have in a few years. I had some motivation, Bill (my brother-in-law) started doing triathlons almost 2 years ago and we had talked about doing a half-marathon together in 2011, but due to knee problems, I was never able to really start training for that. As a result, we revised our goal to doing a century in 2012 (my second, first since day 1 of TOSRV in 1997, his first). We (I) decided we’d do the Hancock Horizontal Hundred since this is a very flat century that I’ve wanted to do for more than a decade. I didn’t really get into the training routine until late May, and then in June I started having back problems (see my upcoming Christmas letter for more explanation) and had to switch from the road bike to the recumbent. I never really rode more than twice a week (with 1 or 2 exceptions) and I had breaks at inopportune times (like the Alaska cruise two weeks before the century), but I still managed to ride 830mi in 2012 including 5 organized rides (plus one more that I registered for, but then couldn’t ride). Below are some of the highlights & interesting numbers.
- Tour de Cause “Challenger” course – 41.69mi, 03:16:30, avg = 12.74mph, rainy and lots of hills
- Pedal with Pete – 47.61mi, 03:00:15, avg = 15.85mph
- Lancaster County Covered Bridge Metric Century – 66.46mi, 04:43:12, avg = 14.08mph, very hilly
- HHH – 100.85mi, 06:17:54, avg=16.01mph, really tough headwind section just after lunch, but fortunately found a group to ride with
- Trek Breast Cancer Ride – 42.54mi, 03:00:04, avg = 14.17mph, I had hardly ridden in a month
- Total # of rides = 28
- Total mileage = 830.02mi
- Total time = 56:03:44
- Avg. speed = 14.81mph
- Avg. length of ride = 29.64mi
- Avg. time of ride = 02:00:08
- Rides over 20mi = 20
- Rides over 30mi = 11
- Rides over 01:30:00 = 18
- Rides over 02:00:00 = 8