We Broke Out The Bubbly

Hit the 5000 mile mark today. If you're at all interested, see if this address works

2007 Bike Mileage

This is a spreadsheet that I used to keep track of my miles. Is it exact? No. I didn't really start tracking things until February, so January was pretty much a guess. That month included a couple of commutes and a couple of rides with the Nerds on Bikes club, (aka Twin Cities Bicycling Club) so I simply made a guess. So did I really do 5000? Well, there are bunches of little rides that did not get recorded, and if I wanted to be all jerky about it, I could include a couple-o-hundred miles on the bike ride to nowhere, riding on the trainer in the basement. Highlights include July 29th, the day I did my first century ride. That was the ride where I drafted off of Neil most of the way. Thanks again, man. I knew it was going to be close, so I was afraid I was going to have to ride around the block a few times when I got home to make that 100, but my odometer really did read 100 miles when I made it there. The whopping 2.1 miles on December 1 was the truncated TCBC ride during our first snowstorm of the season. April 13 was the day I took delivery on the SS Deathstar and about 3700 of the total were put on that bike. I don't have the exact figures here, but somewhere between 2000 and 2500 miles of the total was my commute to and from work. Basically any time a 27 is entered, that's a commute. That means the Taurus has 171,000 miles on it instead of 173,000. Anyhooo... we had an extra bottle of champagne left over from TOYH's finishing up school, so we popped the cork on it. Okay, okay, it was cheap Asti Spumante and not real champagne. Martini & Rossi anyone? Cheers to me.