Birdie's sleep patterns right now don't give me time to take her to the lake in the morning, get home, feed her and shower and be ready for work. Instead, I've been taking her down to the lake right after work whenever the weather allows it and there are no other conflicts. Last year I would take all sorts of alternate routes down to the lake, but ( Read more... )

Since my May update, I broke virtually every personal biking record I have. Here is the updated list.

Month

Best Year

Miles

Commutes

Second Best Year

Miles

Commutes

March
2017
35.8
2
2016
35.8
2

April
2020
168.6
11
2014
70.0
4

May
2020
198.3
11
2014
175.0
10

June
2020
418.9
21
2018
250.6
14

July
2020
453.0
19
2015
232.7
13

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If nothing else, my bike routine has crushed it in 2020. At this point, I have broken my previous mileage records for every month from April through October. June, July, August and September are my four best months in terms of mileage ever, and October is my sixth best month. Every May, with a paltry-for-2020 198.3 miles, slips into the top 10 all ( Read more... )

On July 1 I said my goal would be to ride a century this year. On August 1 I said I'd aim for Labor Day Weekend. On Friday, September 4, I completed the century with 103 miles evenI started riding at 10:13am and headed west toward Lorain, a ride I've done several times. It took me about 2 hours to cover 22.5 miles through a mild headwind. I stopped ( Read more... )

I happened to buy gas on Friday, March 13, which was my last day in the office. Since then I have bought gas exactly twice: once on May 11 and again on July 12. I've still got half a tank left so I probably will get through a nice chunk of September before my next tank. If I get 10 more days I'll break my "longest time between tanks of gas" record ( Read more... )

July was a record bike month.
- I broke my July record. The previous best was July 2015 at 232.7 miles on 13 rides. I went 453.0 miles on 19 rides in July 2020.
- I broke my single month record. 453.0 eclipsed June 2020's total of 418.9 miles on 21 rides. That means my average miles per ride actually went up ( Read more... )

Since I bought my bike back in 2013 that vast majority of my biking has been commuting to work and back, to the point where when I posted my updated monthly records I only considered commuting miles, because that was 97% of my lifetime miles before this year.

Of course, this year I'm not going into the office. Nor am I going into the gym, so once ( Read more... )

When we originally got told to work from home, we were told four weeks. That would have had us returning to the office on April 13. Then it was pushed back not once, but twice, which would have had us back in the office on May 4, for a total of seven weeks out of the office. From there, we were pushed back again, so that our next day in the office ( Read more... )

While writing my recent bike post I realized that my bike records were more than two years out of date. I thought I'd better updated that, then today as I wrote this I realized unfortunately few of the records had shifted in the intervening time. Oh well, let's do this anyway.

Month

Best Year

Miles

Commutes

Second Best Year
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Back in 2019, one of my resolutions was

Bike Lakewood
I resolve to bike down every street in Lakewood, Ohio.

Alas, it didn't go well. Between the gym and biking to work, I was didn't have much free time to ride around in Lakewood, so ultimately I lost interest and withdrew the resolution.

As it happens, after seven weeks I'm still working at ( Read more... )