Just like last year, I’m late putting together my end of year wrapup. This year was obviously better than last year, but I was out of town for all the nice weather days in the last 6 weeks of the year, so I fell just short of my mileage from 2013 and 2014. Having said that, it was a very good year. I only had 5 rides all year where I averaged under 15 mph. I added cadence and power meters in March which added some interesting data to my rides. I’m still figuring out how to make best use of it, but that’s for this next year.
I rode 5 of the 6 organized rides I paid for this year. The first one, the Tour de Forest was just too friggin cold, it was in the low 40s, so I decided to stay home and be warm.
- Ride 2 Recovery Honor Ride Ohio – 31.34 mi (50.44 km) in 1:51:40, avg – 16.84 mph (27.10 km/h), beat last year’s time by almost 10 minutes.
- Tour de H2O – 51.48 mi (82.85 km) in 3:07:59, avg – 16.43 mph (26.44 km/h), weather looked iffy at the start and for most of the ride I thought I’d finish in under 3 hours until a couple of late hills put an end to that.
- Tour de Cause – 42.81 mi (68.90 km) in 2:48:46, avg – 15.22 mph (24.49 km/h), very hilly ride.
- Pedal with Pete – 63.59 mi (102.34 km) in 3:45:24, avg – 16.93 mph (27.25 km/h), beat last year’s time by 7 minutes.
- Ox Roast Ride – 62.17 mi (100.05 km) in 3:51:30, avg – 16.11 mph (25.93 km/h), my second metric century.
- Total number of rides = 44 (most rides in a single year since I started keeping stats on RideWithGPS.com in 2012, 43 in 2013)
- Total mileage – 1109.22 mi (1785.12 km)
- Total time – 67:21:26
- Total climbing – 20,660 ft (71.2 % of the way up Mt Everest)
- Avg speed = 16.48 mph (26.52 km/h) (up from 15.38 last year)
- Avg time of ride = 1:31:51 (down from 2:00:38 in 2014 and 1:34:40 last year)
- Avg length of ride = 25.21 mi (40.57 km) (down from 30.91 in 2014, but up from 24.26 last year)
- Rides over 20 mi = 29
- Rides over 29.75 mi = 10 (down from 16 in 2014, but up from 8 last year)
- Rides over 50 mi = 3 (down from 6 in 2014, up from 2 in 2015, 2013 and 2012)
- Rides over 1:30:00 = 14
- Rides over 2:00:00 = 6
- Rides over 3:00:00 = 3