2009 Cycling Goals
- 5,280 miles or, a mile of miles (14½ mi/day avg)
Challenge Goal: 5,840 (16 mi/day avg) - Top 10% overall in BikeJournal rankings (outdoor miles only)
- 100% of workdays commuting by bike in the Commuter Cycling Century
- 39 weeks (75%) in the Car-Free Week Challenge
(Challenge goal: 42 weeks or 80%) - Break 20 MPH (Avg) on the Long Loop (Pittsford) to work
- Increase Yellow Bike’s share of the miles to at least 20%
- Increase my advocacy work through the club
- More club rides
- No crashes
2009 Trips and Events
- Friday June 12–Sunday June 14
- Great Finger Lakes Bicycle Tour with the Southern Tier Bicycle Club
- July sometime
- Week of Metrics at my parents’ summer place in the Rideau Lakes region of Eastern Ontario. (That’s Canada, eh?)
- Sunday August 16
- Ididaride in the Adirondack mountains.
- Friday August 28–Monday August 31
- BikeForums.Net 50+ Forum 1st Annual Meet and Ride in Glenwood Springs, CO.
- Friday September 11 & Saturday September 12
- Highlander Cycle Tour, possibly the toughest century in the east.
Leading RBC Rides
I’ll be ride leader on two Rochester Bicycling Club rides this spring. All riders are welcome. If you’re not a member, email me for maps and directions.
- Sunday March 29, 1:30pm
- Map #178, Ellison Park to Mendon Ponds Park. 21 miles, moderate hills. Get an early start on the season with this warm-up ride.
- Sunday May 31, 9:00am
- Map #10, Ten Parks Tour. 58 miles, moderate hills. The Ten Parks Tour represents Rochester and Monroe County in the best rides of New York State at the New York Bicycling Coalition. This route includes urban, suburban and rural portions as it winds its way through ten city, county and town parks.
Monthly Mileage Goals
Broken out by month, the mileage goals look like this:
| Goal | |||
| Miles | mi/day | Cume | |
| Jan | 260 | 8.39 | 260 |
| Feb | 210 | 7.50 | 470 |
| Mar | 350 | 11.29 | 820 |
| Apr | 450 | 15.00 | 1,270 |
| May | 550 | 17.74 | 1,820 |
| Jun | 600 | 20.00 | 2,420 |
| Jul | 650 | 20.97 | 3,070 |
| Aug | 650 | 20.97 | 3,720 |
| Sep | 600 | 20.00 | 4,320 |
| Oct | 470 | 15.16 | 4,790 |
| Nov | 270 | 9.00 | 5,060 |
| Dec | 220 | 7.10 | 5,280 |
