One Year

One year ago I bought a Bryton Rider 330 bike computer and signed up for Strava. I thought it would be fun to keep track of the kilometres I ride throughout a year and have a record of where I went. Also, I thought it was incredibly handy to have just ONE computer that could be put on all of my bikes instead of having a half dozen, each with different wheel sizes programmed into them - on and rechargeable - and all the data isn't lost when the battery dies. I'm really happy with it.

So, how did that year go...?



I rode about 3500km in the last year. Which is, I think, a pretty average year. When I've tried keeping track in previous years - tallying the odometers of all my other bike computers - I got about the same. for a year when I was MOSTLY just commuting and not doing a lot of fun rides or "training". I think the most I did in a year was about 8000Km. I'd like to do better this next year. Go for more longer rides through the summer. Get that up over 4000Km/year.



No surprise, there was less riding through December - January - February - March... But strangely there was also a week in July where I did less riding than any of those winter months...? Week of rain where I didn't HAVE to go anywhere, so I barely left the house?



Presented as mostly totals... I started off doing a lot of riding in May... slacked off through June (I was also on vacation for two weeks and while we did some mountain biking we mostly just walked around Calgary and Canmore). September I did a LOT of riding. This was because Finnegan was doing a Wellness class and he had to log a LOT of hours doing physical activity through the month and so we went for a lot of long rides. Rides dropped off to only commutes through November and December... not sure why I did so much more riding in January...? One of the coldest Februaries on record accounts for it being the lowest of the low, and slowly starting to put down some Klicks through March and April - though that was still mostly commuting - only one or two fun rides in there each month.



The Yuba is still my get-around bike for the greater part of the year. I did more distance on the Fargo because I've been using it for a few more commute trips around town, and it's the bike I do longer rides on out of town - those add up quickly! The Big Fat Dummy was the ONLY bike I rode through the winter. The Mikado seems to have sat completely unused this past year. I was using it for short trips around town when I didn't need to haul stuff in the Yuba, but I've mostly been using the Fargo or the Bowery for those trips these days...

That is all for now.