I took off on the F-5 just after 8:00 this morning and rode 40 miles. I rode 30 yesterday afternoon. It was cloudy and 86 degrees when I took off yesterday afternoon, but as soon as I was riding, the sun came out and it got pretty steamy. I’ll be glad when we get some actual fall weather and the afternoon rides are cooler. Yesterday’s ride was a reminder of why I’ve been doing most of my afternoon riding indoors lately. Yesterday’s ride gave me a total of 494 miles for September. That’s probably less than I usually try for in September, but with my trainer set up for the winter, I don’t feel the need to get extra miles right now, since the winter miles will be easier to get this year.

At a time when everyone seems to be moving their mileage logging to online, I find myself doing the opposite. My bike mileage is at three places online right now. Every since shortly after I started riding, since January of 2005, I’ve been logging my mileage at bikejournal.com. A lot of rbent people were doing it there way back when, I had no Garmin to track a lot of data, and so I used bikejournal.com. But now I also have mileage at Garmin Connect, where my Garmin gets uploaded by default, as well as my trainer mileage at rouvy.com. So I’ve been logging all that mileage to bikejournal.com, too.

But bikejournal.com hasn’t been free for many years and also separates trainer mileage from road mileage when showing totals, so since I’ve set up the trainer this year, I’m not liking that. But I’m not in competition with anyone else and have never felt the urge to be trying to claim KOM mileage at somewhere like Strava, so I just decided it’s time to find software to log all my miles on my own computer, and back it up on a cloud. CycliStats has been freeware for a few years now. It’s nice software, so I’ve installed it and started importing all my rides from everywhere else. That’s proving to be quite a chore, but it’s a blast from the past and a reminder of many fun and adventurous past rides as I do the importing.

Importing new rides from Garmin Connect is easy. I’ve never had a power meter on my bikes, so that data is missing. CyliStats estimates it. And older rides had less data, and needed massaging to get missing data, including miles from being slow to pick up satellites at the beginning of rides, especially my work commuting miles, which the return rides started around some tall metal buildings. Elevation is also missing from those older rides. Rouvy exports tcx files that CycliStats won’t import, but I’ve found that TCX Converter makes short work of getting them into a form that CycliStats will import, so I’ve been using it. It’s going to take a while to get everything imported, but once that’s done, the monthly chore of importing from Garmin Connect and Rouvy after that won’t be too much of a hassle, and CyliStats does a pretty nice job of showing everything I want to track, as well as a lot more.

Today’s ride route out to Purtis Creek State Park.