Thank goodness for longer daylight hours

After months of thinking I was on the verge of logging 1000 miles in a month along comes May. It took a 31 day month, a three day weekend, AND the longer daylight hours of Summer to just get 900 miles. After a good start to the month the last two weekends have just sort of fallen apart as far as bike riding miles goes. Last weekend the excuse was riding a Team Time Trial. This weekend it was chasing razor clams with family. Okay, enough of "cross training", it's time to get riding the bike. Race Across Oregon is just 8 weeks away.

Tonight I took advantage of the longer daylight and took off with the plan to ride at least 48 miles....enough to put me over 900 miles for the month. I began my ride at what would have been dark just a few months ago. Today the sun was still quite high in the sky. I headed for the easy way out, flat and into the wind, looking for a tailwind for the last half of the ride. I pedaled south on Boones Ferry Rd to St Louis then followed the Willamette River back to Butteville then a quick run over the Boone Bridge and called it an evening.

53 miles. Equally important was that I didn't get rained on. After the last 10 days or so that's no small achievement.


While I'm riding miles here, my Race Across Oregon partner is having an awesome adventure. It even involves a bit of biking, though on fat tired bikes.



After all that fun will she be ready to come back to Oregon and race skinny tire bikes...UP hills? ;-)

............BIKE............LIFECYCLE.....ROLLERS....TOTAL
Today.......53................0.............0..........53
Jan........618...............0..............0.........618
Feb........692...............0..............0.........692
March......940...............0..............5.........940
April......934...............0..............0.........934
May........905...............0..............0.........905
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TOTAL.....4103...............0..............5.........4108