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2016 Redux

31 Saturday Dec 2016

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2016, bike crash, cycling, New Year, Toussaint


This was an odd year.  A year where my wife and I turned 50.  A year that a new nationalism is taking hold in the world.  A year of great loss – it seems that a lot of folks relevant to my generation passed away.  This was the first time for me that “a year” has had a felt impact on me and many that I know.

On a personal front, it wasn’t so bad.  Business is good, I had some memorable vacations and trips, and I ended it out better than at the beginning.

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crash helmet

“The Crash” that curbed my cycling activity at the end of the year turned out ok, after all.  I even got my bike back the weekend before Christmas.

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recovered bike

I received a call from a woman who said “I have your bike.  Your helmet, too!”.   After I picked it up, the new replacement frame I had ordered from the Toussaint boys showed up, so now I will have two bikes in place of one.  Hmmm – a nice porteur would be a  great bike to have around…  I feel extra lucky to have come out of that mess the way I did!

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new Toussaint

As far as stats this year, I rode 2156 miles in 254 trips.  Average distance was 8.5 miles with an average speed of 13.5mph.  Unlike past years, there was no dip in the summer months – I did more riding in the nice weather this year than I have in the past.  My May Bike Month was the tops at 372 miles in 85 trips, but there were 8 months over 200 miles.  The vast majority of this was commuting.  No rando events, and only one S24O bike pack to Fort Ebey.

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I’m looking forward to getting back into bike fitness in the new year, and will try to start out with more interval training early on.  I want to do the winter training series that the Cascade folks put on with help from SIR.  Hopefully the schedules work out.  There are also a lot of backroads in WA that need exploring, so I look forward to some good times ahead.

Happy New Year!!

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Posted by Stonehog | Filed under Cycling, Northwest

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