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250115 Pace Partner
250114 TdZ S2c & Outer Scotland Badge & Lv82
250113 PMC Group Ride & Magnificent 8 Badge
250112 NYC KOM After Party Badge
250111 TdZ S1c & London Flat Badge
Rolling into 2025
This one’s just a minor but significant (to me) blog update. It’s not really even worth bringing others’ attention to it, except that I’m pleased with how I was able to make it work. So what is it?
Yawl know that there’s a sticky/pinned post pinned to the top of my blog with charts that track my Fitness as of my most recent ride.
And one of those charts has always shown my Fitness for the current calendar year.
The problem was: when the year is new (like it is now), that chart would be mostly empty, and it would take weeks or months for it to show any kind of meaningful data.
The obvious solution was to stop segmenting the chart by calendar year, and instead have it show my Fitness over a rolling 12-month period, kinda (exactly) like what you see below. That way it always shows a full y »more
250105 Slow Start to 2025
2025-01-01
2024: Second Life
Every year has its ups and downs, and its major milestones. But every so often something happens that is so significant that you can divide your whole cycling career — perhaps even your entire life – into “before” and “after”.
2024 started quite well; I was riding consistently, tried some new things, made a few events, but missed a few others. In the first nine months of 2024, I knocked out 7,000 kilometers, an average of 25.75 km per day.
Some Anticipated Purchases
Having spent the past three months on the indoor trainer, I’ve been sitting on a few ideas for next year’s cycling upgrades, including the following:
On the bike: After two years and almost 18,000 kilometers, my bike could probably benefit from its first thorough tune-up. And some new bar tape.
Cycling kit: Although my »more
241230 EoY PMC Group Ride
241229 Sunset on 2024
2024-12-29
241227 Shisa Shakedown Badge
241226 Rounding Around
241225 Two Wheels Good! Flywheels Bad!
241224 Level 81 at the Onsen
241223 PMC Group Ride
241222 Radio Rendezvous Badge & 9 Mm
241220 Richmond Loop Around Badge
241218 Power to the Tower Badger
241216 PMC Group Ride
241215 Peak Performance Badge
Site News: Now on Bluesky
Added sidebar link to my Bluesky profile.
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Site News: Now on Bluesky
Added sidebar link to my Bluesky profile.
Posted Sat Dec 14th 2024