July Cycling Challenge 2014

7/3 - 1.5 miles at 8.9mph.
7/5 - 2.6 miles at 9.9mph.
7/7 - 0.8 miles slowly.
7/9 - 3.0 miles at 10.2mph listening to Cheap Trick on the Walkman (external speakers - not earbuds).
7/12 - 3.0 miles at 10.6mph listening to the Go-Gos.
7/14 - 1.0 miles at 8mph.
7/16 - 2.8 miles at 10.5mph.
7/19 - 5.5 miles at 10.0mph listening to The Mavericks. Pretty sad that I'm excited to be on pace to get 30 miles for the month, but it's been a sickly month. And I AM excited to be on pace to get to 30 miles this month.
7/20 - 2.0 miles at 7.5mph listening to the newest Black Keys album.
7/21 - 5.0 miles at 11.1mph listening to Skillet. Felt pretty good today. And I managed to out-ride a tiny dog that was trying to bite my ankles. He almost got me.


MTD = 25.2 miles.
Goal = 30 miles.
Still need = 4.8 miles.

Quick update, Goal is 250 miles spinning or cycling , anything over 20 kms is normally cycling:

Date Kms
1 Rest
2 14.48
3 15
4
5 50.38
6 Rest
7 20.13
8 20.19
9 14.28
10 Rest
11
12 29.4
13 41.3
14 Rest
15 13.31
16 21.74
17
18 53.56
19 Rest
20 42.7
21

July 336.47 Kms
209.07 Miles

7/1: 30.52 miles
7/4: 25.12 miles
7/5: 29.94 miles
7/8: 15.37 miles
7/9: spinning (doesn't count for miles, but I'm counting it toward cycling days)
7/10: 16.90 miles
7/13: 30.86 miles
7/16: 15.31 miles
7/19: 38.20 miles
7/21: 15.52 miles

Goal=250 miles and 16 days; Now=217.48 miles and 10 days.
Remaining= 32.52 miles and 6 days.

Didn't quite make my intended 400 miles last month, life got in the way. I am away for a week this month so I'm going to drop my goal to 350 and see how I go.

2nd June: 26.09 miles
3rd June: 23.37 miles
4th June: 40.56 miles
5th June: 14.75 miles
Away for 5 days without the bike :-( missed it dreadfully
12th June: 25.25 miles
12th June: 3.6 miles
13th June: 3.6 miles
14th June: 30.31 miles
15th June: 33.37 miles
17th June: 34.11 miles
20th June: 56.47 miles
21st June: 14.6 miles
22nd June: 36.66 miles

Total: 342.74 mtd. 7.26 to go. Looks like I'll make it.

New bike this month!!!

Goal for July 200

already at 96.

Goal for July: 250 miles

7-4 : 12.14 miles
7-5 : 15.00 miles
7-6 : 22.60 miles
7-7 : 30.31 miles
7-8 : 21.88 miles
7-9 : 11.14 miles
7-10: 21.96 miles
7-14: 23.36 miles
7-15: 22.99 miles
Suffered LCL sprain 7-16
7-19: 10.70 miles
7-22: 22.30 miles

Total: 214.38 miles

07/06 - 16 miles @ 17.4 mph w/ 650' climbing
07/18 - 31 miles @ 17.5 mph w/ 1,450' climbing
07/20 - 31 miles @ 16 mph w/ 1,450' climbing
07/22 - 16 miles @ 17 mph w/ 650' climbing

Total miles for July: 94 w/ 4,200' climbing

Goal miles: 200
Goal climbing: 10,000 feet.

July 2: 51 miles
July 4: 30 miles
July 8: 16 miles
July 10: 16 miles
July 12: 16 miles (Wine stop half way in the ride. Plan was 25 miles but wine trumped additional miles but it was worth it.)
July 15: 18 miles
July 16: 18 miles
July 18: 19 miles
July 19: 28 miles
July 21: 22 miles
July 22: 19 miles

Month Total: 253 miles

Month goal 650 miles (Not likely to hit my goal. New goal is 350)

Goal for July: 250 miles

7-4 : 12.14 miles
7-5 : 15.00 miles
7-6 : 22.60 miles
7-7 : 30.31 miles
7-8 : 21.88 miles
7-9 : 11.14 miles
7-10: 21.96 miles
7-14: 23.36 miles
7-15: 22.99 miles
Suffered LCL sprain 7-16
7-19: 10.70 miles
7-22: 22.30 miles
7-23: 22.40 miles

Total: 236.78 miles

7/1 - 32.5 miles
7/2 - 21.7
7/3 - 32.2
7/5 - 33.1
7/6 - 37
7/8 - 31.4
7/9 - 31.6
7/10 - 64.1
7/11 - 31.5
7/12 - 31.8
7/13 - 31.5
7/14 - 15.5
7/18 - 21.2
7/19 - 31.8
7/20 - 32.4
7/23 - 31.7

Total - 511
Goal - 600
Remaining - 89

Monthly goal 300
Total so far 276.2

7/1 - 14.0
7/2 - 6.0
7/3 - 12.3
7/4 - 6.0
7/5 - 19.2
7/6 - 27.2
7/7 - 1.2
7/8 - 2.1
7/9 - 20.0
7/11 - 7.0
7/12 - 24.1
7/13 - 51.0
7/17 - 6.1
7/19 - 46.1
7/20 - 7.7
7/21 - 6.2
7/22 - 11.3
7/23 - 2.4
7/24 - 6.3

Weather is still awful and I needed an easy recovery ride. Will easily make my climbing goal but the distance goal will be a challenge.

New goals for the month: 1,100 miles and 65,000ft climbing :-)

07-01 31.8 miles ridden at 14.7 mph avg. with 1,496ft climbing
07-03 29.3 miles ridden at 13.0 mph avg. with 1,818ft climbing
07-04 23.5 miles ridden at 15.2 mph avg. with 1,640ft climbing
07-05 72.9 miles ridden at 14.3 mph avg. with 5,759ft climbing
07-06 30.3 miles ridden at 13.0 mph avg. with 2,062ft climbing
07-07 63.0 miles ridden at 15.0 mph avg. with 3,837ft climbing
07-08 29.2 miles ridden at 13.4 mph avg. with 1,967ft climbing
07-09 13.8 miles ridden at 15.4 mph avg. with 761ft climbing
07-10 55.0 miles ridden at 16.0 mph avg. with 2,944ft climbing
07-12 100.0 miles ridden at 14.5 mph avg. with 5,485ft climbing
07-13 40.7 miles ridden at 16.3 mph avg. with 1,769ft climbing
07-14 83.1 miles ridden at 13.1 mph avg. with 7,164ft climbing
07-16 56.1 miles ridden at 13.7 mph avg. with 4,193ft climbing
07-17 25.8 miles ridden at 14.5 mph avg. with 2,210ft climbing
07-18 40.5 miles ridden at 14.1 mph avg. with 2,691ft climbing
07-19 41.3 miles ridden at 12.8 mph avg. with 3,3201ft climbing
07-20 89.2 miles ridden at 12.6 mph avg. with 7,132ft climbing
07-22 62.4 miles ridden at 14.0 mph avg. with 5,026ft climbing
07-23 25.0 miles ridden at 15.1 mph avg. with 1,437ft climbing
07-24 16.7 miles ridden at 11.6 mph avg. with 1,033ft climbing

MTD Totals

929.8 miles ridden at 13.4 avg and 63,745 ft climbing

Total: 369.16 mtd. 19.16 miles over target :-) maybe I'll get it to 400 before the end of the month.

OPile - Congrats on making your goal!

Goal 125 miles

7/8 6.3 miles @ 14.4 mph for 26 minutes
7/9 10.1 miles @ 14.6 mph for 41 minutes
7/11 9.8 miles @ 13.8 mph for 42 minutes
7/13 7.2 miles @ 13.1 mph for 33 minutes
7/16 10.3 miles @ 15.3 mph for 40 minutes
7/18 13.2 miles @ 14.1 mph for 56 minutes
7/19 14.7 miles @ 14.3 mph for 61 minutes
7/21 10.4 miles @ 16.0 mph for 39 minutes
7/22 16.9 miles @ 12.9 mph for 79 minutes
7/24 6.8 miles @ 10.7 mph for 38 minutes (nice ride with my wifey!)

Total to date: 105.7miles
To goal: 19.3 miles

Hmmmm maybe I should try and break a personal barrier and ride 20 miles
on 1 ride!

1500 down with ~60 planned for tomorrow and ~80 planned for Sunday. Should be close to 1800 for the month of July.