2020 has arrived, and I’ve added up all my mileage for 2019. Since my last blog post in October, I’ve ridden 410 miles in November, and 435 miles in December. That’s more than I usually do in December, but with my terrible mileage start in 2019, it took that many miles to reach my mileage goal for 2019, which was 5,200 miles. I ended up with 5,214 miles for the year.

In past years, every mile I logged was actual outdoor miles ridden. That changed in 2019. For the first time ever, in March, I set up a bike (my Xstream) on a smart trainer, joined Rouvy, and started doing virtual rides, watching a video. As you climb a hill on the video, pedaling gets harder, and the effort versus miles ridden is very comparable to actual outdoor mileage on my F-5, so I’m going to add those miles to my outdoor riding to calculate my logged mileage, from now on.

In 2019, I ended up with 2,779 miles indoors, and 2,435 outdoor road miles. So, over half of my riding for the year was on the trainer. I don’t know how that will compare to future years, but I’m not missing those outdoor rides on days that were too wet, cold, hot, etc, so I’m going to stay with this riding plan for the foreseeable future. It’s a concession to age, I guess. Only five of my sixteen rides in December were outdoor rides.

My last outdoor ride of 2019, on Christmas Day.