After only getting 120 miles on the bike in May because of my knee surgery at the beginning of the month, I had hoped to be getting my regular three rides a week all summer. It didn’t happen. I got the flu on July 11th, it quickly turned into pneumonia that caused two trips to the ER and a couple of days in the hospital, and left me with bronchitis so bad that I didn’t ride again until August 7th. So July ended up just like May had, with me only getting in 120 miles on the bike.

I haven’t been setting firm mileage goals these days, but I had hoped to manage 4,000 miles on the bike this year, just like I did last year. It’s not going to happen now. At the end of August, I only had 2,000 miles, so I’m likely to end up several hundred miles short of that 4,000. Nothing to do but ride when I can, and hope for a stretch of better health now.

Last week’s route.