2010 Year End Motion Update!

Welp, that was ought ten, time for the annual year end motion update.

Totals of 2010: 2671 miles biking and 51 miles running.

In short, it was my lowest mileage totals in recorded history. I am betting you would have to go back to 1994 to get lower bike numbers (but I probably ran more that year than I biked this year) and 1997 or so to get worse run numbers when I pulled my hip and did not run all year, but the bike that year was probably well over this year.


I drove to work about 7 times this year, mostly so I could drive up the ski hill and do some xc skiing at lunch. I think I drove two other times due to being in a hurry. Based on rough estimates I have driven to work 17 times since May 2006, which I am pretty proud of.

On a per bike basis the tally is:
624 on the Kelly Single Speed Mountain bike
570 on the Kogswell PR
412 on the Surly Big Dummy
330 on the Schwinn Breeze
281 on the Fixie Bike Friday
154 on the Kelly Road bike
145 on the Kelly Fixie
94 on the Raleigh Twenty
29 on the Picnica
29 on the Schwinn Traveler
3 on the Schwinn Typhoon

1082 miles were on single speeds or fixies, 40% of total milage, this percentage pretty steady for the last three years, but is much less than the 66% I did in 2007, the arrival of the PR and the big dummy are likely to blame. Notably I have had some repeated mechanical issues that completely took a bunch of bikes out of service for the year and prevented others from even making an appearance. The single speed cross bike and hunter 24" bmxer need some serious work and I am determined to get them rolling. The returned from the dead typhoon needs some serious work too. I also have my new 29'er single speed that I have not finished building. Wrenching time has been minimal. I did major overhauls of the single speed mountain bike and the road bike the night before races, and finally got off my ass and got the big dummy rolling after it was waylaid for most of the spring and summer with grotty chainitus and myriad braking problems. The Raleigh twenty tried to kill me mid year and I still am on the fence on building it back up or selling it. I did get a new set of 20" studded tires for it. So maybe I will get it rolling again this winter.

On the per month mileage:
102 Jan
94 Feb
169 Mar
313 Apr
376 May
338 Jun
105 Jul
188 Aug
276 Sep
223 Oct
200 Nov
287 Dec

Last winter was a really tough one for commuting. I did bare minimum subsistence commuting through march. July was wiped out by travel, I have no idea why august was so bad. I was in NZ for late October and early November, but recovered somewhat in November as winter did not arrive. December also benefited from warm weather until the last week and a trip to California over christmas where I put in a mess of miles attempting the Rapha 500 thingy.

Commuting and errand mileage were consistently high this year. I have a couple of spread out places where I work and I get lots of between mileage during the week, but I don;t think I did a ride of more than 40 miles this year. Which is the big difference between the last couple years and my high mileage years. I used to put in lots of commuting and then ride long on the weekends fairly often. I really don't do that anymore.


I cross country skied 21 times in 2010, I managed to wax my (and elena's) skis 27 times though, accounting for bringing multiple pairs of skiis to races and putting them all in storage and other wax changes for weather. Silly sport it is.

I swam four times, all in the ocean, three times in italy and once in Rhode Island.

I like racing and raced a bunch this year again:
XC ski:
Chama Chile Challenge 10k classic
Leadville Loppet 22k skate
Alley Loop Crested Butte 44k skate
Alpina Stampede half of the planned 44k skate
Pajarito Pinhead 10k skate

Snowshoe:
Santa Fe Snowshoe Classic 5k
Chama Chile Challenge 5k

Mountain bike:
Tierra Torture Short Track
Tierra Torture XC
pajarito Punishment XC
Top of the World mountain bike race, XC
Road Apple Rally XC
Single Speed World Championship New Zealand

Running:
Ruby K Yum Run 10k trail race

I also did a xc ski training race and a time trial training race. So that is 16 total races which is about the same as last year. I was pretty fast mid xc ski season and toward the end of the mountain bike season, but I need to train more to actually be really fast. I like racing anyway though, so I probably will race similarly next year, I was thinking about doing Leadville 100 in 2011, but realistically I don't think I will enjoy that race with current riding habits, I will stick to short races I can race well (or fake) on my current training habits. I did no cross races again, I can't really get motivated to drive to albuquerque (~2hours each way) for a one hour race. They did have some closer races this year, but they conflicted with some trail races here in town, in any case I had the flu that weekend and did not do anything. I hope to return to cross racing this year. I did pick up a trio of race sponsors this year, they helped make racing possible and fun and have allowed me to get an impressive array of parts for my in progress Kelly 29er. Soon my pretties, soon it will be unveiled. So big thanks to those who made Team Tarik racing possible: Mellow Velo bike shop in Santa Fe, Paul Components, and Kelly Bike.



I traveled a bunch. I made it to New Zealand for Single Speed worlds and to Italy and Russia without riding. I rode my travel bike in Santa Barbara twice, San Francisco, Boston and NJ. I also made it to Rhode Island, Chicago and Salt Lake without the bike. I did a fair bit of riding in Colorado, with meetings in Keystone and Vail I did some really fun mountain biking and then I hit some spectacular singletrack in leadville on the way there. I again skied extensively in Colorado mostly for racing.

Lets see, what else do I talk about? the weight was doing pretty well right up until the day after single speed worlds in New Zealand. I think I left the US at 195 and returned at over 205 pounds. What happened? I drove around in a campervan for a week and a half, did not ride my bike, at well, had fun, and drank beer as there was not much to do in the campgrounds after Aida went to sleep. So I ended the year at 203 lbs, which is high for me, but not too bad. I really want to get back down to 187.5 again. So that is the goal. I think with some riding plus one run a week and maybe slightly less travel, I can do it. I say that every year though. But lower weight will tie into happier running and better strength. Speaking of which:

I will also try to really attack the core strength. I was doing pretty well recently until this year. I did virtually no strength stuff this year, and with Aida being a squirmy thirty pound big girl, I have repeatedly tweaked my back picking her up. I need to get back on some sort of core program. Core! Maybe kettlebells?

So again the goals are:
more gooder, less badder, more thinner, less fatter

Specifically 3650 miles ridden and still trying to get a massive 150 miles run, I think these are reasonable goals, but I have not come near to them since 2006 or so. I will get them one of these years.

Year Bike Run
2003 2880 128
2004 3667 252
2005 3000 250
2006 4000 100
2007 2883 165
2008 2817 108
2009 2964 76
2010 2671 51
(2005 and 2006 are estimates based on partial year reporting)



With that, I conclude my 2010 update, thanks for reading,
May 2011 be filled with whatever you want it to be filled with.

2009 year end motion update!

So sometime in the last couple of weeks the year ended and the new one started as one would hope, so it is time for the year end motion update.

The big news in motion update is that I completed 100% bike commuting last year. Basically from the time I started my current job in February of 2006 until the end of 2009 I drove to work about 10 times. I did two year or more uninterrupted stretches from 8/06 to 8/07 and from 4/08 to the end of 09. In other news I already broke the no riding to work streak this year, more on this later in the post.

So, on to the totals:
2964 bike and a measly 76 run. That averages out to 8.12 miles per day on the bike and .2 miles per day running.

The bike was good this year. Lots and lots and lots of commuting and errands. A fair bit of racing and an extremely modest amount of training and recreational riding. The breakdown is as follows:
711 on the Big Dummy
568 on the Kelly Singlespeed MTB about half on studs for the winter
476 on the Kogswell PR
288 on the Bike Friday Fixie
251 on the Stud shod Raleigh twenty
237 on the Hunter 24" BMX bike
156 on the three speed Schwinn Breeze
106 on the three speed Schwinn Traveller
100 on Bones, the Kelly Fixie
36 on the Kelly Road Bike
25 on the Picnica
10 on the Kelly singlespeed Cross Bike

My monthly mileage was remarkably consistent within the usual seasonal swings:
192 Jan
191 Feb
247 Mar
276 Apr
301 May
341 Jun
248 Jul
292 Aug
185 Sept
274 Oct
233 Nov
184 Dec

September a bit weak due to not riding for 12 days while in Egypt. Otherwise I traveled a bunch, but usually had a the fixie friday with me. Off the top of my head I rode it in:
Lincoln Nebraska, Knoxville Tennessee, San Francisco and Pleasanton and Livermore California, Seattle and Richland Washington, Las Vegas Nevada, plus at least one or two tiny rides here at home in Los Alamos New Mexico. I rode the picnica in Amarillo Texas. I raced my mountainbike in Durango Colorado and ended up nordic ski racing all over Colorado.

I made it to NJ, Salt Lake City and Egypt as well, all without riding.

The Big Dummy proved very useful and ate up a lot of commuting miles and won the yearly mileage for the second year. Between studded tired commuting and riding training and racing, the SS MTB came in second. The rest of the bikes were pretty well used. Other than the MTB the Kelly fleet was underutilized, the fixie was and still is in a state of much needed repairs after a 4 years of hard riding and abuse. The road bike was only used for one race and maybe one other ride, the cross bike was not raced on and barely used at all. I do have a 29'er kelly Singlespeed in the pipeline.

Overall there were 1228 miles on one speed bikes, or 41% of the yearly mileage.

Running was terrible this year. I barely ran at all. Work was busy enough that I only did a handful of lunch runs and I had some long term knee issues that were constantly there this year. I did get them checked out, and I have some IT band bursitis in my left knee, but somewhat surprisingly that is all, no meniscus/acl tears, no arthritis, no lack of cushioning. So I am pretty happy about that. The nice orthopedic doctor told me to stretch and ice and take it easy when it was sore, but no restrictions on activities, which far exceeded even my best hoped for result. Anyhow, the 76 miles I ran is less than my best week running when I was skinny collegiate runner boy. Oh so many years and pounds ago.

Speaking of pounds, I ended the year at 198 pounds which is mildly inflated by the holiday gain, but really really really typical of any year recently save 2005. I think I ranged in weight from 192 post xc ski season to 203 or so after a long business trip to california, where I really enjoyed being able to eat a wide variety of good food again. Again I would like to get back to below 190 which will undoubtedly help the running and the knees and the racing on bikes. So yet again, lets shoot for 187.5 pounds by the end of the year. Cantaloupe diet and fenfen here I come.

So in the mode of resolutions I still resolve the usual:
more gooder, less badder, more thinner, less fatter
More specifically I say I will once more yet again attempt to achieve 3650 miles ridden for the 10 mile a day average, I think I can do it this year. I changed my job a tiny bit which requires me to be at multiple facilities more often which will increase the bike commute a fair bit. I may also try to do some lunchrides, which I have not done since 2006 or so. I also started doing some longer rides hauling Aida in the chariot last year and she really liked it, as did I, so those should continue.

I am going to reduce the running miles goal to 150 as I have not come close to 365 miles run in a year since probably 2001. For the record the yearly totals that I can find are:
Bike Run
2003 2880 128
2004 3667 252
2005 3000 250
2006 4000 100
2007 2883 165
2008 2817 108
2009 2964 76
(2005 and 2006 are estimates based on partial year reporting)
But again, pretty darn consistent, over 8 miles a day biking for the last 7 years, if I could find the records going back to 2000 I bet the numbers would be slightly higher, but pretty much the same idea.


In other motion news, I did not, to my knowledge, go for a swim in 2009, save for a couple of times swinging the baby around the pool. Turns out I really would rather do almost anything else if there is not an ocean around. I went ice skating 3 times last year, it has kind of dropped off the table as it used to be a lunch date for Elena and I, but now with the baby, I just try to come home for lunch.

I went cross country skiing 18 times last year. A really high percentage of which were races.

Speaking of races, I raced a fair bit last year, 14 times, as I was inconsistent in my race reports this past year, here are all the races I did:
XC Ski:
Chama Chile Classic (10k classic)
NM Cup (12k skate)
Alley Loop (21k skate)
Durango Langlauf (30k Skate)
Alpina Stampede (21k skate)
Pajarito Pinhead (10k Skate)
Big Shooter Bonk (40k Skate)

SnowShoe:
Chama Chile classic (5k)

MultiSport:
Atomicman Duathlon LittleBoy

Mountain Bike
Tierra Torture Short Track
Tierra Torture XC
pajarito Punishment XC
Road Apple Rally XC
Single Speed World Championship Durango

Running:
Pajarito Trails Festival 10k

That was 15 races. Pretty good. I skipped cross season completely and did no training races at all this year as I skipped the local timetrial and splash and dash series entirely.

All in all I love racing, it was a pretty hard year with all the racing and maybe not that much training, I am getting a bit old to fake it as well as I once could, so maybe 2010 I will train a bit more. That is, honestly, why I drove to work for the first time in over a year last week, so I could go skiing at lunch. If I am going to try to do some longer nordic ski races in 2010, I need a bit more time on the skis. The winter time is not really good for riding around here, I like riding in the cold and snow, but 3 miles each way subsistence commuting does not quite cut it for building fitness. So this winter I may drive in once a week so I can sneak off and get some skate skiing in.

As for last years non-motion goals:
Core strength, organization and teeth flossing
Well, we got a water pick, which hopefully obviates flossing, and I used it, so I will continue. As for the others, well, I will endeavor to improve these!

I think 2010 will be a great year, may you ride as much as you think is fun to do.

2008 year end motion update!

Even though I did not give monthly summaries this year, I still kept track of the mileage. The goals were 10 miles a day biking on average and 1 mile a day average running. The reality:
2817 bike and 108 miles running.
That is 7.7 miles a day bike average and .3 miles a day run average!

Not too surprising as again I did virtually no long training type rides this year nor did I do any regular running. Most of the mileage was commuting oriented with diversions. The year was nasty and cold until June, so lots of the early season mileage was depressed. Having little Aida come along also curtailed the riding a bit.

I only drove to work twice in 2008. It was last winter some time, I can't remember why, probably because I was sick and it was really cold, but I don't remember.

The yearly, per bike mileage:
536 on the Big Dummy
495 on the Kogswell PR
449 on the Kelly Singlespeed MTB about half on studs for the winter
367 on Bones, the Kelly Fixie
283 on the Stud shod Raleigh twenty
214 on the Bike Friday Fixie
198 on the three speed Schwinn Breeze
124 on the Hunter 24" BMX bike
62 on the Kelly singlespeed Cross Bike
58 on the Kelly Road Bike
32 on the Picnica

Big changes from last years profile. Still 1247 miles were on one speed/fixies. The new geared bikes were the mileage champs this year. I suspect the big dummy will win again in 2009. It is too useful. I rode it almost exclusively for 2 months around the time Aida was born.

I still plan on contracting the Picnica and the Friday Fixie in to a seasons Tikit which can both be the throw in the car bike AND the travel bike, but I need to sell some bike junk to get that to happen. The other low mileage bikes were the Cross Bike, which I usually only race cross on now, so not a big deal, and the Road Bike, which is usually high milage, but the appearance of the P/R has relegated that to go fast rides only, but the bars are a bit low and some other mechanical issues are causing it to not be ridden. I should get that fixed, I have a new fork for it and all the parts, just finding time to deal with the dozen or so bikes in the upkeep department is tough. More bikes=more that are mechanically deficient.

Running was a disaster this year. I can't remember why either, I don't recall being injured at all. I think I was too busy at work to sneak out for lunch runs in any consistent fashion this year. No big deal.

In other motion based activities, I went XC skiing 19 times in 2008 and ice skating a measily 7 times. I am not sure if I went swimming at all, certainly not in a pool. I am pretty sure I did not go open water swimming at all either. I will almost definitely swim more this year as Elena is a regular swimmer and I will need to play with the baby as she swims, and I probably will sneak a few swims in after elena is done. I think ice skating will fall by the wayside this year as someone needs to watch the baby, and I usually iceskated only to see elena at lunch a few days a week. As Aida gets older, I am sure this will return!

I did 6 "real" races in 2008. One cross race, one mountain bike race, one duathlon, and three xc ski races. I did two training bicycle time trials and one xc ski time trial. That is a lot less than the 10 real races and 8 training races I did last year. In retrospect I am a bit surprised it was half the races of 2007. There are plenty of local races this year that I will probably do, so lets see what happens. I got afflicted by the lazies, the early season doldrums and the mid season illnesses this year which made me skip a bunch of local races. Long trips with the little miss are probably going to be few with the possible exception of a durango weekend in september if I can get an entry.

Running is a weird thing. In my collegiate racing days I would hit 100 miles every 10 days or so during cross country season. I really enjoy running, but I tend not to deal well with more than one run a week. I think I should probably get my knees checked this year. My brother (with a similar running background) got his checked and the doctor told him he had arthritic knees and should not run anymore. So he now ignores his doctor. I suspect I have similar problems, but I will prefer not to know. There are a few longer trail races here in Los Alamos which I would like to do this year, but that would require two runs a week. I like being able to go out and run for an hour or so pretty fast at will...We shall see!

Tied into runnnig is weight issues. I think I weighed in at exactly 202 lbs on new years day in 2007 and 8. This year it was 196. It is a bit fake as I usually weigh around 195 pretty consistently and then shoot up a few pounds over the holidays, skewing the number. When I ran in college I weighed somewhere between 160 and 170 pounds. I think splitting the difference between then and now is a good goal. So I will shoot for 185 by years end. I think it is pretty doable by a combination of fasting and miracle diet. Or at least not eating as much at work in the snack department and excercising a bit more. Maybe cutting out the bacon in my breakfast burritos and maybe cutting down on beers a bit. I have tried limiting beer consumption by only drinking expensive beer which worked great as a student, now I just have taste for expensive beer while having the means to buy it regularly. Oh well. I was at about 180 in 2005 when I was at the peak of my dissertation writing procrastination by biking and racing alot. I don't think I can quite get there, but I would like to get the weight under 190 consistently. This will make running alot easier and will make my bike and ski racing even better.

Uh OK, where are we here. So the new years goals are the same as every year:
more gooder, less badder, more thinner, less fatter
The riding and running goals will stay fixed at 3650 miles biked and 365 miles run. I will be happy with 3000 miles biked and 150 runned, but I will see if I can push it! I am already at 15 miles biked this year, so maybe it will be a record january. Heavy winters have pushed the bike milage down with at least three months of subsitance commuting milage of 150 or so miles a month. The most recent high milage year happened during a winter where there was zero snow fall. At least the skiing has been great last few years. I am soon to have the big dummy with studded tires, giving me three bikes that are winterized, so hopefully the winter mileage will be better this year without trying too hard. I am perturbed from a commuting standpoint that there is already a ton of snow onthe off road route to work, so that really makes the commute boring. It will take some serious post holing/snow shoeing/plain old plodding through to get it ridable, discounting two-three more months of winter storms.

Random factor this year is Aida. I think she will be bike trailer and bike seat ready by spring, whenever that is, so that might help and/or hurt milage! Yay baby. I welcome whatever changes she brings. So bring it, little baby girl.

Here are the last few years milage summaries that I can find:

2005 and 2006 milages are estimated based on partial year reporting.
I have a few other years stashed around somewhere on old harddrives. I think there was one or two 5000 mile+ plus riding years in the past ten years, but for the most part, 3000 miles has been pretty typical.

And a couple of last things. Core strength, oraganization and teeth flossing. I will endeavor to improve these!

Happy 2009!

Dec 2007 motion update and year end summary

The december totals were 27 run and 152 bike with 2 times xc skiing and 3 times ice skating.
As the snow and ice was back for the whole month, I put in 70 on the single speed MTB with studded tires, 20 on the raleigh 20 also with studded tires, 50 on the track bike before the snow got too bad and 10 on the fixie friday in santa barbara and a big 5 on the schwinn breeze. I did drive to work twice as it was 10 degrees and I had a massive head cold.

Yearly totals were 2883 bike and 165 run. Not quite what I had hoped but not too shabby. I was aiming for a 3650 bike 365 run year. Travel and the fact that I did virtually no bike training this year kept the bike mileage pretty low. I think the run mileage goal was probably unreasonable given my inability and unwillingness to run more than twice a week anymore. The yearly run total would have been a 2 week total during my collegiate running days, but my knees, well they are not 20 any more.

Just because the numbers look good I am keeping my goal for next year, but upping it to 3660 bike and 366 run as I think there is an extra day in 2008.

Getting my curves on christmas day in Santa Barbara

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During the year I rode my bike to work every day except 4. Three days I was an evil single person per car commuter and once I was a carpooler. Given how crappy the 06-07 winter was and the fact that I rode every day but the carpool during that time, I am pretty proud. I live 3 miles from work which is a bit too far to walk. There is no real public transportation between me and work so it is a drive vs bike decision. Between 8-06 and 8-07 I did not drive my own car to work. When I lived in berkeley and did not have a car I was able to make it up to berkeley labs from emeryville for a year and a half straight with no car. But I had much better public transportation and mixed mode commuting options. So I am pretty proud like I said...

Yearly per bike milage is as follows:
754 on the Single speed MTB, half on studded tires.
720 on the Kelly Fixie, Bones
516 on the Kelly Road bike
277 on the Schwinn Breeze
227 on the Raleigh 20
173 on the fixie friday
162 on the bridgestone picnica
52 on the Kelly Cross bike
2 on the wedding tandem

Almost 1900 miles of the yearly mileage was on single speeds.

When I look at the per bike list, I am a bit flummoxed on how to contract the bike numbers. And in fact, I am getting at least 1 possibly 2 new bikes this year (Kogswell PR and possibly a Surly Big Dummy). One of the easy fixes would to get a Bike Friday Tikit to replace both my fixie friday and the picnica as it could serve as a travel bike and a "throw in the car and ride around santa fe while elena shops" bike. However, I think derailers on folding bikes are a really really dumb idea and I am not really that excited about the tikit until they make it easily compatible with internal gear and single speed hubs.

All the other bikes have their purpose and the cross bike is used for racing even if I don't do quite as much of it as I used to. It would have gotten more mileage this year but I got married in the middle of cross season and somehow skipped alot of races in the wedding/honeymoon phase. Biking is a pretty good hobby though, so I don't mind having lots of bikes...

On the other motion activities, in 2007 I went xc skiing 21 times, ice skating 16 times and swimming 3 or 4 times.

I raced "real" races 10 times last year ranging from snow shoeing, xcski, mountain bike, duathlon, road bike, cyclocross. I also did 7 short training time trials and one run-swim training duathlon. I like racing...

Overall it was a good bikey and runny year. I will do it again next year. Also I am not burnt out on milage tracking yet, so I will keep up with the reports.

Here is the summary for the last few years:
2003: 2880 bike 128 run
2004: 3667 bike 252 run
2005:~3000 bike ~250 run (10 months tracked, 2 months estimated)
2006:~4000 bike ~100 run (estimate)
2007: 2883 bike 165 run

Sept-Oct-Nov 2007 Motion Update

Whoops, I think I have forgotten to put the motion update in for the last 4 months. Lazy lazy lazy.

Here is the scoop on 9-10-11 2007, I will post shortly the 12-07 update and the year end summary.

September 2007
Up there in Canada bonita on Labor Day

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216 miles bike, 24 miles running. Two trips conspired to keep daily milage down, the fixie friday saved me from having a complete crap month. 62 miles on bones, the main fixie and 65 miles on the friday. About 40 on the breeze, 20 on the road bike, and 15 each on the MTB and the picnica. Yearly totals of 2288 bike and 120 run.I broke my year long no driving to work streak as I had to work half a day and then go to the airport from work. Crap. I think that was 8-06 through 9-07 without car commuting save one carpool in 1-07. Not too shabby...

October 2007
Dirt road riding on the picnica in Nambe in October

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290 bike, 12 run. Oooff. The yearly milage not quite making the grade for the 3650 for the year. For reasons I cannot remember I hit a massive 87 miles on the Raleigh 20. About 60 on the main fixie, 50 on the friday fixie and 40ish on the cross bike getting ready for cross season. 20 each on the picnica and the mtb, 7 on the breeze. Elena and I got married on the 20th and we put about 2 miles on the marital tandem before it was put in dry dock for repairs. Yearly totals of 2578 bike and 132 run.

Nov 2007
Too damn cold to road bike near 10,000 feet in november

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153 bike and 6 run. Yeah yeah, I was in Singapore and Bali for the first 12 days of the month with no miles biking or running. So overall not terrible, right? I managed 95 on the bonsey fixie, 15 on both the breeze and the road bike, 10 on the cross bike and the mountainbike and 8 miles on the picnica. Yearly totals of 2731 and 138. I also went XC skiing once and ice skating twice. The winter, she has begun!

OK, I will post the December totals and year end summary soon. Oh the suspense.

August motion update

I am both proud and disappointed in the last few months mileage totals. The lazys have been fierce on the weekends, and I don't think I have done any rides of over 30 miles in the last two months. Despite that, I still have hit about 10 miles a day on average during the last few months. My basic work commute is about 6 miles round trip, but I have been running lots of errands and making lots of long cuts on the way home.

I have continued hitting my ride to work every day streak this year. I think I am well over one full year now, but I can't remember the exact date of the last drive, but it was sometime last summer or early fall. Since the May 06 I have driven to work twice and carpooled once. Pretty good. When I lived in berkeley and did not have a car I got up to berkeley labs from fruitvale and emeryville via bike or public transportation for a year and a half straight.


I have been running a bit more, as I am trying to get in some semblance of shape for cross season. I will try to pump up the milage a bit this month as well as get into a solid two a week running schedule. Maybe. If the lazies do not strike again!

So the totals for august were 22 miles running (a high for this year I think!) and 309 biking. That makes 2072 biking on the year and 99 on running.

The break down is 85 on the track bike, 70 on the road bike. About 50 each on the mtb, breeze and the twenty. And a big 10 miles on the picnica.

We shall see how it comes about this month.

Heading up into the depths of the Cañada Bonita on a labor day mixed terrain road bike ride

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July motion update

Ah fickle July. I was enroute to a really good biking month, when an opera induced knee injury laid me to rest. I ended the month with 309 biked and 13 runned, for a total of 1763 biked and 77 run on the year.

I did ride to work daily and, somewhat oddly, the knee injury started a 40 day straight riding streak, which ended just yesterday.

Onto the breakdown. Roadbike had 110, ss mtb had 75, the track bike and the raleigh 20 came in at 40ish each, with the picnica and the breeze at 20ish and 30ish respectively.

Out at the caldera in late june

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June Motion Update

Here is the June motion update.

I done biked 269 miles and I runded 11 miles. Not too bad considering I was out of the country without a bike for the first 10 days of june. I will be back on it for July, really.
I did ride to work every day I was at home. I carpooled once to work this year, the rest has been by bike.

I also swam twice, once in the ocean and once in the pool.

Total yearly milage is at 1454, running at a measily 64. I am a bit behind my goal of 3650 miles for the year and 365 miles running. I think I will probably get there on the bike but no chance in hell on the run. I will post a more in depth mid year summary if I am suitably motivated.

This months milage was 100 on the road bike, 90 on the trackie, 50 in the single speed mtb and 20 and 10 on the schwinn breeze and the raleigh twenty respecively.

Wink256 getting aquainted with my new running shoes:

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May Motion Update

Super late again. For those of you keeping score at home:
May had 231 miles of biking and a measily 4 miles of running. Woo!
Travel kind of torpedoed the mileage that month.

About 50 miles on the Schwinn Breeze, about 50 on the Bike friday, 100 on the fixie and the rest scattered about between the MTB, road bike and raleigh 20.
1185 bicycle style miles and 54 running miles in the year as of May 31.

Crappy month, but good to scale back a bit between the heavy racing of april and the summer.

Me, my brother and a future distant inlaw not bicycling on the yakima river there in washington:

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April Motion Update

The belated April Motion Update in brief:

370 miles on the bike,
21 miles running

Totals on the year:
954 Bike, 49 run.

The bike was good this month. Some 150 on the MTB, 100ish on the roadie, 50some on the track bike and the picnica, the breeze and the twenty on garbage time 10-20miles each. I spent a week in albuquerque for a class, but was able to bust out some commuting midweek on the picnica thanks to the nice ABQ bike map.

I did commute every day I was in the alamos.

The run was really good too as I was able to run twice a week for short ones with no knee pains.

With the benefit of most of the May behind me already I can predict May is looking crap what with some hard work, some travel and some odd aseasonal daily rain as well as snow showers. But whatever. I raced 4 times in 16 days between mid april and the first weekend in may so I can rest a bit and enjoy the midseason break.


Me chanelling my inner socal en frente the Santa B bike station.
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March update

Here is the March motion update.
280 miles biking, a big 10 running.
100% commuting.
I was able to ice skate once on the 1st of the month, which was the last day the rink was open this year. Three cross country skiing days as well, before it all got mooshy.

I will, next month, post some sort of bar graph or some such showing the different bike tallies on the year, but this month is still pretty boring, almost all the Jan/Feb mileage was on the mountain bike. So for this month 28 miles on the one speed mtb in the first week of march, then I had a bad day where I noticed that the fork was cracked and I managed to shred the rear studded tire and had to walk two miles home. Bad day. Anyway, I ticked off about 100 miles each on the road and fixie, 50 or so on the breeze.

The yearly mileage is up to 584.

Yearly run milage is a comical 28. The forcast is crappy for the duathlon, I may just do the "little boy" wimpy one, rather than the outrageously for the early season "fat man" one. Or I might just go race the mtb somewhere else. Bah. Run.

I was a bit lazier than anticipated on the weekends, but overall pretty good year thus far. Much of the milage was commuting, but now that the time has changed I have been hitting a few stretch out the commute home rides. A few nice road rides on the weekend. Yay bike. I anticipate a 400 mile month this month as I panic and over train for the mtb and other races at the end of april. Stay tuned.

February update

As snow is being blown with gale force winds across Los Alamos on this last day of the month, I bring you the february motion update.

The hard numbers are as follows:
6 miles run, 198 miles bike.

Not too bad, especially considering the epic winter continuing. All but thirty miles on the studded tired singlespeed mountainbike. The other thirty were on the picnica. Thus I am now at 304 miles for the year all on single speeds. All the milage was pretty much utilatarian, almost all commuting to work, which I was a 100% successful in doing this month. During the last 2 weeks the offroad commute options have started to open up, so I have been able to extend the commutes a bit longer and have a little more fun on the route. I still have quite a bit of ice on the non-road parts of the commute as well, most in the first half mile, including an exciting 100 meter stretch of snow-dammed trail that freezes into a mini skating rink stretch. I am still pretty glad to be riding the studded tires, although they are still too narrow. Are you listening Nokian?

I did go xc skiing 8 times this month, and ice skating at lunch about 6 times. Not too shabby. I am going to say that translates into at least 150 miles of bike replacement, so I will predict I will be close to 350 miles next month, as winter slowly tails off, and recreational biking replaces the ski and skating.

The running was crap, but I really don't care at this point in my life. 18 miles for the year. Wooo! One nice run at the beginning of the month, and thats it. I am sort of planning on doing a duathlon at the end of april as it is hard for me to resist races that are local and it is pretty fun, but I really need to get on the running for that to happen.

Another update in a month, stay tuned.

January Update

Welp January is in the books. We were greated this AM by yet another snowstorm and a 3 hour delayed start to the work festivities. I shoveled the freeeeeeeking driveway AGAIN. I think this was shovel the drive of 3 inches of more time number 6 this month...

I saddled the bike around 10am and got into work 20minutes later. The ride started with a bit of slip sliding on the new snow over icy paths in a light snow and ended in a blinding snowstorm. I am pretty sure I beat most of the cars to work who left around the same time as me. Wooo, small victories. Everyone thinks you are insane when you ride in the weather. I aim to cultivate that idea.

Anyhoo, the whole point of this post is the first of a monthly series of updates on my riding totals for the year. I usually keep track of this, probably 3 out of every four years. I took the year off of recording last year as I got bored with it. My yearly totals have ranged between 3500-5000 miles riding and something like 200 miles running. I have tried to hit averages of a mile a day running and 10 miles a day riding for the last few years, but have fallen short in the running, oh, since 2001 or so. Usually because I don't hold up so well running more than once a week of late. but the goal remains the same.

So the total for the month was an anemic 106 miles biking, mostly commuting 100% on the studded tire single speed. Sadly we have had so much snow on my commute route, that the fun offroad part has been mostly impassable via bike this month.

12 miles running, 4 of which were on snow shoes. Of course I went xc skiing 8 times or so and ice skating a bunch too, so the fitness is pretty good, but the tyranny of the spreadsheet tells me to get on it. The weather tells me that I am doing pretty damn good commuting thus far and it is xc ski season, so chill out.

I just found the 2003-2005 totals, I think I was optimistic above, my actual totals were:
2003 2880bike 128run
2004 3667bike 252 run
2005 ~3000 ~250, apparently amidst my dissertation I missed recording Nov and Dec 05.

I am guessing last year was in the 4000 bike range and something in the low 100's running. As I commuted almost daily last year after the dissertation and had a pretty solid summer of riding. 2003 and 2005 had 4 month stretches of living 30 miles from work, so I did not ride as much.
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Stay tuned, I may even geek out and break it down by bike.