There are one hundred and four weekend days jammed into a year or just under two thousand, five hundred hours for most of us to do something other than work. That sounds like way more time than it actually feels like, doesn't it? I guess the old saying about time flying when you're having fun is especially true when talking about our precious Saturdays and Sundays. It's how you use those two days every week that matters. I know a lot of people who try to put in one hundred days on the bike every year, a number that, depending on how you've structured your life, may or may not be difficult to hit, and also one that sure matches up nicely with all those days away from work.
For a lot of people, however, life doesn't like to play ball when it comes to riding that much. Sure, some of you out there have no problem hitting two or even three hundred-plus days on the bike, but it's not a stretch to say that you bastards are in the very envied minority.
Or maybe you're more than happy to be getting out fifty, twenty, or even just a dozen times per year. It might come as a surprise to some of us, but there are probably many people out there who don't really want to ride much more than they did in 2015. Or maybe I'm wrong, and everybody always wants to ride even more than they're able to.
Got 77 park days -13, 94 days -4 and 3 days in -15. Not liking the progression
Have the odd day off, sometimes nice to be off the bike!
I'm enjoying my trail building retirement...spent 20+ years digging bike parks, building skate parks and trails
nice to be riding now, and not digging anymore
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.5 hours are actually 16.4 days, which is no where near 25% of 365 days. But none the less it's A LOT of riding. (if I'm not mistaken it's 4.167%)
I'd guess I rode about 125 days.
Rode CO, WY, UT, NM, AZ, WA, BC, WI, WV, MD, Whistler, Trestle, Snowshoe, Steamboat, Crested Butte, Angel Fire, Snowmass, Moab (3x), Sedona, Galbraith, Fromme, Ray's, lots of other sweet stuff.
No injuries too, it was a good year.
But it's Not enough. But I enjoy it the more.
So real time dir about sixty days.
That's live;-)
Not like the rides of the weekends..but i still enjoy every mile..
Our walk consists of me riding a bike, her running along at my side. 20 to 30 minutes max.. we have a little loop we do, sometimes we'll go a different course, go a little longer..
Then for real rides, with some distance, that's as often as possible. 2+ hours, 3 times a week if I'm lucky.
I think it's a great way to stay fit --- for me as well as LuLu ---- the vet says she's in great shape but, I will say --- at some point in time, I might have to taper back. LuLu is a golden retriever an they tend to have hip problems. My hope, she's small for a golden, I hope that helps in the long run. My D O G before LuLu, Bailey lasted a good long time -- 14 years.
and to be dead honest --- for 50 years old... I'm still crushin' the trails and I honestly feel it's because I have been an avid biker pretty much my whole life. biking is a great form of exercise.
Rider owned.... for life (tag line from Transition Bikes). Something I follow strongly
RIDE ON!!!
All I know is this is the year I didn't ride as much as I normally do due to a major accident. Left me off the bike for 5months and 2 shoulder surgeries. It's getting better but not 100%
I'm back on the bike though so I'm blessed for that. I hope next year I'll get to ride all year long!!
Watch "Cox DH run with my Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4k Drone" on YouTube
youtu.be/qBYhd6klsts
Watch "Cox DH run with my Yuneec Typhoon Q500 + 4k Drone!" on YouTube
youtu.be/eZYOLEpuUbE
Additionally you can log your rides with the Trailforks ridelog feature without gps, if you just want to log the day or you forgot your phone/gps device.
Working 4 on/4 off has its advantages and most rides were weekdays so there weren't any crowds/queues.
Next year should be better and hoping to add at least 50% to this year's total.
April to June was spent riding Kicking Horse and the surrounding trails. In July I went to Panorama, Silver Star and the bike ranch (Kamloops) for a day at each place then spent a week in Whistler. After that I took the month of August off and rode Fernie, Silver Star and Sun Peaks for 3-2-2 days. The rest of August was spent riding Whistler with a day in Squamish and a day at Coast Gravity....
Then back East I stopped by Highland for a day... Since then I got my AM bike fixed and have been riding trails in Quebec a bit.. Most recently I rode Bromont on Christmas Eve. Crazy weather this year!!
In short this year was awesome, and hopefully 2016 is even better! Moving back to BC in the summer!
:-) Happy holidays!
Too many road miles though, but a summer in Whistler helped bump up the stats
That's with 4 months off during all the summer with a broken tibia plateau.
I'm back now
Desk jockeys
Broken collarbone.
record in a few years.
Probably low by PB standards?