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These are my stats for the biking year 2009. I'm OK with calling the year complete even though there's a day here and there that is nice enough to go out for a spin. I have transitioned into my routine indoors at the gym now and I prefer to stick with that until next year.

I pretty much blew away any previous years stats. Partly because I got a new bike after my first 400 miles.

I kept ahead of my stats from 2007 which was the year I was comparing myself to from the beginning. When I got my new bike on July 9, I left 2007 in the dust. There's a nice little climb there at the end of September which was my Door County trip. The day we left Door County it rained and got abruptly cooler. Into the early part of October this year it stayed much cooler outside than normal so I don't have many miles after that trip.

• May: 93.6 miles
• June: 206.4 miles
• July: 512.9 miles
• August: 382.3 miles
• September: 471.5 miles
• October: 58.7 miles

I had 57 outings this year. My average distance was 30.27 miles. My shortest ride was 9.33 and my longest was 80.2 miles.

• 0-9 miles: 3
• 10-19 miles: 22
• 20-29 miles: 10
• 30-39 miles: 7
• 40-49 miles: 6
• 50-59 miles: 5
• 60-69 miles: 0
• 70-79 miles: 2
• 80+ miles: 2

My weekday evening rides after work were typically 18.5 miles so that's why the concentration of outings in the 10-19 range. I've calculated my total time at 109 hours 54 minutes which is 4 days 14 hours and 54 minutes of time on my bike with wheels in motion.

Since I have kept track with various cyclocomputers since late in 2004 I've traveled a total of roughly 5116 miles.

• 2004: 101.5
• 2005: 716.0
• 2006: 434.0
• 2007: 1236.9
• 2008: 902.3
• 2009: 1725.4

This distance is about equivalent to a round trip from Los Angeles to Honolulu (answers.com). My ultimate goal is to reach enough miles to say that cumulatively speaking I have ridden a bicycle a distance that is equal to the circumference of the earth at the equator. I'm roughly 20% of the way there now. I don't know how to figure it out, but I think it would be interesting to find out where on the earth closer to the north pole a circle of 5100 miles is. I think I'd need to know how far apart the lines of longitude are at different degrees of latitude and figure from there with my distance figure and come up with the degrees south of the pole. If I knew how to figure that out I'd probably be a member of Mensa.

Edit: I found 2 figures on the Internet for the circumference of the earth at the arctic circle. One says 10,975 miles and the other 9,945 miles. The arctic circle cuts Alaska in half north/south and runs through Siberia and the northern parts of Scandinavia. I could say I've ridden a distance equal to halfway around the world.......but at the arctic circle!