Looking Back, Looking Ahead

 We made it! Happy New Year!

Sunrise, 1 January 2021

Looking at my cycling stats on Strava... not terrible... better than nothing, I guess. There were a lot of rides over the last month or so that didn't get logged - computer just wasn't working... Not THAT many, but a large percentage of them. 

Comparing to the previous year though... 

Wow... What happened...!? 2020 Happened. With all of our regularly scheduled activities cancelled you'd think I'd have gotten more riding in... But that somehow that just wasn't the case. PART of it was the hand and knee injuries that kept me mostly off the bike the last two and a half months. A LITTLE BIT of it was the aforementioned computer issues. PART of it was not having any place to go. 

But those were only parts. Small parts. I don't do that much riding in November and December. The commuting is a relatively smaller part of the overall distance I do in the year, so not having a place to go was less of a factor than the overall malaise of the year and not wanting to even leave the house. 

I mean, look at this... 

This is 2019 - a pretty regular year not so much riding the first few months, generally building up to longer rides in the spring and lots of rides in the summer always a bit of a shift and correction in the first week of September as I adjust to a new schedule and then start working in some longer fun/exercise rides around all the getting-kids-to-places rides... 

And then there was 2020... 

WAY more riding in March-April-May... because there was nothing much else to do... but as the year wore on, motivation got more variable. Mercurial, even. And then the knee issue (which is doing much better now! The finger still isn't great - the fracture is more-or-less healed - but 8 weeks in a splint was probably a bit too long and the physiotherapy is taking some time...).

Well... that's over with, I guess. 

Hopefully this new year will be better.