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Long time, no blog...

After over 2 years of riding with different groups of people I am back to riding alone.  It seems as if not everyone is a crazy as me or enjoys riding as much as I do. The person to whom I live with and am related to marriage always asks me, if I enjoy riding the same routes over and over.  I do as each day is different even if the route is the same.

I rode with Tom D and Jim L earlier this year. I hope to see them both on Mother's Day at the Pier.

A few pictures:

The LA Marathon was in March. Below the Finish Line (I did not run. I only biked past this marker the day before the race).

The person to whom I am related to by marriage and I took the train up north in early April and biked around 100 miles back in 2 days.

Yesterday in LA, they closed a road called Venice Blvd. and you could bike from the beach to downtown LA or the reverse route.  I am glad I took the route from the beach as there were quit a few bicyclists downtown yesterday (Look across the street to the left of the traffic signal).

Year in Review

As all their are many year end in reviews, below is mine in pictures.  The word to summarize this year is: Change.

The Year started with dinner in January with some ex-co workers and friends

 

Fast Forward to April 2012

 

 

 

 

My bike frame of cross country fame came to an unexpected end

 

 

 



In May, it was time to say goodbye to friends and colleagues.







 

In June, it was time to start on a new adventure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In September, I had a little bicycle accident that left me unable to ride for a few weeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To close out the year, some traditions continue (that you Matt)





 

Starting in the afternoon, to close out the year, and you must PLAY THIS LOUD



 

 

 

And finally as this is a blog about biking a summary of my last 4 years of riding 

  

 

	Miles	Days rode	Ave
2012	7,377	188	39
2011	11,743	244	48
2010	8,741	203	43
2009	12,194	245	50
Total	40,055	880	N/A
Average	10,014	220	46

 

 Have a Happy and Healthy New Year   !!!

 

 

 

Jim

I have recently started biking again and decided to bike to the beach. As I arrived at the half way point I saw a familar face.

Jim was biking with his group and it will not be surprising to people who know him that he was waiting for his group as he was first to arrive at thier stopping point. 

 

Six Weeks

The recovery time is six weeks and I am a few days shy, but since it was the weekend I decided to ride my bike over to the library.  I am a little nervous about falling (even at a slow speed), but I want to get back to riding. So far...So good....

Cutters

I have entered week 3 of recovery and everytime I see a cyclist past, I think I will be out there soon.....

A different chart

I guess it is bound to happen to every bicyclists and for me I was glad it was a short decline and I only was going around 10 miles an hour.  Below is where I spent the next 2 days. The chart below is of my body and not my mileage. I wanted to decrease my miles this year and I guess this is one way of doing it, but I am not sure whether the 3 cracked ribs were worth the price.  At a minimum 6 weeks off of the bike.....

Been a long time

I actually could not ride my bike for a month from mid July to Mid August so not much to blog about as not much biking going on. I  really missed not riding and it took me about a week to get "back in shape".

I was riding along and one of my Saturday morning riders asked me if I ever thought about riding cross country again and my response was "Every day". By coincidence when I was riding home the same day I was reminded of one of our fellow XC09 riders. He visited a lot of first responders in every town we stopped in any many of those places were fire stations. He once told me he never saw a "live" Dalmation at any of those fire stations. The picture below is for him:

The picture below is for another cross country rider who once rode with his Dog. This reminded me of him.  Check out that passenger's sunglasses.