Bud_Bent
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I'm going fishing tomorrow, so I'm done riding this year. I ended up with 7,555 miles. In August at HHH, I passed the 15,000 mile overall mark on the Corsa, but for the first year since 2006, the Corsa wasn't my highest mileage bike of the year. Riding to work 172 times this year on the Stratus XP, I put 4,816 miles on it. That, combined with more close to home fishing trips, and doing fewer bike rides that started from far away, allowed me to have the first year of my adult life where I rode more miles on bicycles than I drove motor vehicles. I was definitely stronger this year. My mileage was barely more than last year, but I think that riding so many miles on a heavier commuting bike made a difference. Losing the extra ten pounds that I'd been dragging around for a year and a half had to help, too, and my exercise induced asthma was a lot better this year than it had been the last two. Putting the lung surgery another year behind me may have been the main thing that helped that. I was still slower than most of my riding friends, but when they rode with me this year, I didn't feel like I was slowing them down as much as last year.
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