I took off on the Xstream this afternoon and rode to Purtis Creek. I ended up with 25.2 miles. It will be my last ride of 2013. I rode a total of 5,034 miles this year. That’s a lot less than the 7,000+ miles I had ridden each of the last four years. In fact, it’s less than any annual total since my first full year of riding in 2005. My new job and a move combined to reduce my miles a lot this year. And it seems likely that this will be my new mileage normal for the next few years.

Looking back at my bike journal, I thought it would be interesting to see just how many adult miles I’ve ridden since I got back on a bike for the first time in over 40 years in September, 2004. I’ve kept a journal, and here are my annual total mileages:

2004 – 930 miles
2005 – 5,013.7 miles
2006 – 5,044.6 miles
2007 – 6,161 miles
2008 – 6,708 miles
2009 – 7,440.9 miles
2010 – 7,555.4 miles
2011 – 7,519 miles
2012 – 7,224.6 miles
2013 – 5,034.4 miles

That makes a total of 58,631 miles that I’ve ridden in my adult life, in a little over 9 years of riding. I likely won’t get that many miles in the next 10 years, but if I just managed 42,000 miles, that would make 100,000 miles of riding. A worthy goal, I’m thinking. Happy New Year, everyone!