indoor bike

BIKE 1:12 and 21 miles, 12.5 mins on then 2.5 mins rest
COMMUTE 6 miles bike

I realized at some point recently that I've done the vast majority of my biking indoors this year. That's kinda sad. OK yeah I do my midweek riding early before dawn, and that's been the bulk of my bike "training" this year, but still I think that Frea was a very minor player this year for mileage. Puppy probably has more miles than Frea! And trusty old Bird has been indoors all summer.

I had grand plans of doing a century this October, but my biking didn't bounce back after a summer of ultra running. As I've said before, bike training helps my running but not vice versa.

Those few times I did put too many miles on the trainer I could feel that pez animus left knee injury lurking--the same injury I had last April after my ankle injury pushed me indoors on the bike.

Another grand plan for this year was planning a long trip up towards home on the bike, approximately 220 miles of rural roads this fall. Obviously that didn't happen either.

I did what I needed to do this year to meet my goals, and next year I'll do the same. Still it's a sad thing to realize how much I rode indoors this year!