I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it.
Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com
Progress: 28%
1471.06 km at 17.72 km/h A distance of 3728.94 km remains. At current average speed, 210.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March 2012:
Progress: 21%
1116.62 km at 17.38 km/h A distance of 4083.38 km remains. At current average speed, 235.0 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 14.96 km required. You should have completed a distance of 1314.29 km by today. From Garmin for the month:
Mar 2012 Count 28 Activities Distance 380.54 km Time 21:23:52 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,097 m Avg Speed 17.
Just in case you – or I – are wondering, I had almost a month’s worth of fun with my ISP and didn’t get my riding logs sorted out until halfway through March, so that’s why this page is late.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February 2012:
Progress: 16% – 833.30 km at 17.43 km/h
A distance of 4366.70 km remains. At current average speed, 250.5 hours of ride time required.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January 2012:
Progress: 8%
407.41 km at 16.81 km/h A distance of 4792.59 km remains. At current average speed, 285.0 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 14.26 km required. You should have completed a distance of 414.29 km by today. Jan 2012 Count 19 Activities Distance 407.41 km Time 24:13:44 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,171 m Avg Speed 16.
Oh well, I didn’t quite make it to my annual goal of 5000km! 94% is good enough for a Distinction academically, but doesn’t cut it when aiming for a riding goal for the year, even a lowly 5000km:
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for December 2011 and for all of 2011:
Count 22 Activities 269 Activities Distance 466.26 km 4,618.14 km Time 25:17:13 h:m:s 262:58:34 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,866 m 48,845 m Avg Speed 18.
My ride report for November 2011:
My 5000km for the year is looking a little hard to reach at the moment. I’m still about 250km behind where I should be. As one of the stats analysers says – so far I’ve done 4294.27 km:
A distance of 705.73 km remains. At current average speed, 39.8 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 26.14 km required. I should have completed a distance of 4643.
My ride report for October 2011:
My 5000km for the year is looking a little hard to reach at the moment. As one of the stats analysers says – so far I’ve done 3848.03km at 17.67km/h :
A distance of 1151.97 km remains. At current average speed, 65.2 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 19.20 km required. I should have completed a distance of 4191.78 km by today.
My ride report for September 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count September 20:32:36 405.72 17.69 24 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
September 2011 2011 Count 24 Activities 198 Activities Distance 398.27 km 3,393.85 km Time 23:00:15 h:m:s 194:53:21 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,925 m 36,164 m Avg Speed 17.
My ride report for August 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count August 04:59:52 289.32 16.73 19 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
August 2011 2011 Count: 19 Activities 174 Activities Distance 283.22 km 2,995.58 km Time 17:06:31 h:m:s 171:53:06 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,412 m 31,239 m Avg Speed 16.
My ride report for July 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of July 17:58:33 305.37 16.99 20 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
July 2011 2011 Count 20 Activities 155 Activities Distance 298.35 km 2,712.36 km Time 17:58:42 h:m:s 154:46:34 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,097 m 27,827 m Avg Speed 16.
My ride report for June 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of June 21:58:31 389.10 17.07 24 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
June 2011 2011 Count 24 Activities 135 Activities Distance 382.03 km 2,414.01 km Time 22:34:08 h:m:s 136:47:52 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,099 m 23,730 m Avg Speed 16.
My ride report for May 2011:
As its always important to get a second opinion, here’s the numbers from http://www.mycyclinglog.com/profile/ajft:
Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of May 19:39:33 350.58 17.12 23 Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
May 2011 2011 Count 23 Activities 111 Activities Distance 344.88 km 2,031.98 km Time 20:12:39 h:m:s 114:13:43 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,603 m 19,631 m Avg Speed 17.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for April 2011 and the year to date1:
April 2011 2011 Count 19 Activities 88 Activities Distance 443.56 km 1,687.10 km Time 25:32:43 h:m:s 94:01:04 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,365 m 16,028 m Avg Speed 17.4 km/h 17.9 km/h Avg HR 137 bpm 136 bpm Avg Run Cadence – – Avg Bike Cadence – – Calories 16,079 C 67,000 C Definitely on track to make my 5000km target for the year this time!
Wasting time as usual I spotted a reference to http://30daysofbiking.com/ and being a sucker for registering on yet-another site decided to give it a go … well five days a week is easy, that’s just commuting, the hard bit will be finding time, nay, making time, on the weekends and over the Easter break to go out for a ride..
Now how am I going to do this? Probably just twitter updates, and maybe a photo or two into the Flickr group.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March 20111:
March 2011 Count 25 Activities Distance 496.75 km Time 26:50:58 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,936 m Avg Speed 18.5 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 20,903 C The grand total so far for 2011 is:
2011 Count 69 Activities Distance 1,243.54 km Time 68:28:21 h:m:s Elevation Gain 11,663 m Avg Speed 18.2 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 50,921 C I might even make my 5000km target for the year this time!
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February 2011:
February 2011 Count 21 Activities Distance 302.94 km Time 18:10:31 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,875 m Avg Speed 16.7 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 13,429 C The grand total so far for 2011 is:
2011 Count 44 Activities Distance 746.78 km Time 41:37:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,727 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 30,019 C Just managed to top 300km for the month, not bad when most of it is just shuttling back and forth the 7km to work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for January 2011:
January 2011 Count 23 Activities Distance 443.85 km Time 23:26:51 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 16,589 C The grand total so far for 2011 is:
…exactly the same as the monthly total.
I didn’t quite get to 500 km, although my log on http://mycyclinglog.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for December 2010:
December 2010 Count 23 Activities Distance 401.85 km Time 24:06:55 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,423 m Avg Speed 16.7 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 14,228 C The — not so — grand total for 2010 is:
2010 Count 259 Activities Distance 3,524.20 km Time 199:13:58 h:m:s Elevation Gain 36,592 m Avg Speed 17.
Today we had announced that we were going to go to the zoo, Cam immediately seized on this and for reasons known only to the two and a half year old brain announced that we were going to the zoo to see horses and bees. No amount of questioning or suggestion could shake this confidant prediction.
It was with a sense of relief that as we were walking up the road to Healesville Sanctuary that a couple walked past the other way leading their ponies, confirming in Cam’s mind that indeed we were going to see horses!
Cat Herding, out of bed at 7:00 to be breakfasted, organised, packed with tandem and trailer and out the door for the 09:13 train. Sounds simply in theory and I guess it was in practice, even if we did end up walking across to the station with the trailer only half packed and the rest of the gear just stowed on the seat where Cam would sit.
Oakleigh to Richmond, Cam delighting in the names of all the stations as they came over the PA system, then off the train and across to the next platform to wait for the Lilydale train on platform 10.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for November:
November 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 384.44 km Time 20:18:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 14,441 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 236 Activities Distance 3,122.35 km Time 175:07:03 h:m:s Elevation Gain 32,169 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 114,874 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for October:
October 2010 Count 9 Activities Distance 126.83 km Time 07:26:59 h:m:s Elevation Gain 1,522 m Avg Speed 17.0 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 4,467 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 214 Activities Distance 2,737.91 km Time 154:48:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 28,318 m Avg Speed 17.7 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 100,433 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for September:
September 2010 Count 21 Activities Distance 300.45 km Time 17:12:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,332 m Avg Speed 17.5 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 10,315 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 205 Activities Distance 2,611.08 km Time 147:21:41 h:m:s Elevation Gain 26,796 m Avg Speed 17.7 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 95,966 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for August:
August 2010 Count 18 Activities Distance 254.74 km Time 15:01:50 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,840 m Avg Speed 16.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,646 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 184 Activities Distance 2,310.63 km Time 130:09:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 23,465 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 85,652 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for July:
July 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 321.14 km Time 17:35:18 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,765 m Avg Speed 18.3 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 11,906 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 166 Activities Distance 2,055.89 km Time 115:07:49 h:m:s Elevation Gain 20,625 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 76,006 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for June:
June 2010 Count 19 Activities Distance 212.31 km Time 13:14:24 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,085 m Avg Speed 16.0 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 8,581 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 144 Activities Distance 1,734.75 km Time 97:32:31 h:m:s Elevation Gain 16,859 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 64,100 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for May:
May 2010 Count 21 Activities Distance 243.01 km Time 14:24:51 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,334 m Avg Speed 16.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 8,908 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 125 Activities Distance 1,522.44 km Time 84:18:07 h:m:s Elevation Gain 14,774 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 55,519 Ca Footnotes 1 Two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work, and the buttons failed so it wasn’t usable for a day.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for April:
April 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 292.83 km Time 15:19:33 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,964 m Avg Speed 19.1 km/h Avg HR 142 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 11,087 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 104 Activities Distance 1279.42 km Time 69:53:15 h:m:s Elevation Gain 12,441 m Avg Speed 18.3 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 46,611 C Footnotes 1 Two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work, and the buttons failed so it wasn’t usable for a day.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March:
March 2010 Count 26 Activities Distance 361.81 km Time 20:10:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,211 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 138 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 12,593 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 82 Activities Distance 986.59 km Time 54:33:42 h:m:s Elevation Gain 9,477 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 145 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 35,524 C
Trundling home on the mountain bike towing the trailer and toddler, today I decided to go the slightly longer way via Huntingdale station and the full length of the bottle-strewn bike path to Oakleigh. Making my way carefully through the Huntingdale station car-park in case of idiots I had to suddenly slam on the brakes and stop to avoid an idiot reversing at speed out of a parking space without looking.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February:
February 2010 Count 36 Activities Distance 364.36 km Time 20:53:04 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,442 m Avg Speed 17.4 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 13,567 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 56 Activities Distance 624.78 km Time 34:23:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,266 m Avg Speed 18.2 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 22,931 C
Riding home today I think it must be the day of the d@ckhead and that I missed the announcement.
Heading towards Clayton road in the Dandenong road service lane a courier car comes out of Clayton primary and goes screaming past me and the trailer the wrong way up the service lane heading for the McDonalds or to a shortcut across Dandenong road to head east.
Passing the Oakleigh motel there’s a large tattooed arm hanging out the window of a parked crappy commodore and a hand holding a cigarette… or so I thought.
For three months of the year, from the end of November to the end of February, the roads around the university are moderately safe. For three months there’s the same number of nuff-nuffs and idiots as pretty much every other part of Melbourne. Then at the end of February the students return — people in their late teens and early twenties are not renown for paying much attention to the road laws — and a whole lot of them are from overseas as well, so they have little to no idea of what the road laws are in the first place!
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January:
January 2010 Count 20 Activities Distance 260.43 km Time 13:29:56 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,825 m Avg Speed 19.3 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,365 C
After failing to go for my ceremonial last ride of the year yesterday — something I’ve managed to do when I can on December 31 each year — I took myself out on the bike today.
First bike ride of the year; an easy 38km ride from Lorne out along the Great Ocean Road to Wye river, on for a couple more headlands, stop and look at the ocean for a while, then turn around and make my way home.
Continued from part #2.
Back from the dead — it lives!
After a long, leisurely, walk over to Carnegie this morning with the pram and Jo’s bike we picked up a newly revitalised Norky bike. Dropped her Norco Magnum off for a service and to sort out the gears and picked up the grandfather’s axe that is my Java1.
A bit of a comedown in the world, the only replacement 8-speed Shimano shifters left are Altus; LX, XT and XTR are all 9- or 10-speed nowadays.
Continued from part #1.
After a little searching online I decided to have another look at the internals of my rear shifter — albeit a 1996 Shimano XT unit, so I’ve had a decent thirteen year’s use out of it! Undid the three chassis screws, disconnected it from the cable, and brought it inside where I can safely drop tiny pieces on the kitchen table and not lose them in the shed or the garden.
Over the last few months my rear derailleur — 1996 eight-speed Shimano XT — has been harder and harder to change; I can change up to a bigger ring, but down is a problem, and I need to change two or three cogs and then back up. Jo has also pointed out that her changer is sticking and she was just about stuck in one gear almost all the way to and from work — not much of a problem around either of our commutes, which is why we haven’t done anything about it.
BV’s annual Ride to Work day met work from home day today; together with cold and flu day and drizzly grey rainy day.
With the best intentions in the world I’d signed up saying I’d ride in, thinking I could pop Cam in the trailer, trundle over to Clayton for a breakfast and a chat then head home. Reality dawned dreary and coughing and wet and so we stayed home with a large mug of tea watching the rain run down the windows.
Around and around we go; Connex and Monash City Council, Monash City Council and Connex….
Every couple of weeks someone decides to ignore the no parking signs, to ignore the huge white markings on the ground, to ignore the fact that they’re blocking the footpath and bike path, and decides to park illegally at the end of the Oakleigh station car-park. Anyone on foot who is skinny enough can squeeze past, anyone on a bike, with a pram or shopping trolley or who is fatter than average either cannot get past at all, or has to scrape along the side of the idiot’s car.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
