Category: Jan-Mar 2016

4,000 for 40 – March Ride 5

4,000 for 40 – March Ride 5

E Sharp

Kiewa Country Strawberry: Jindera – Mullengandra – Culcairn – Walla Walla – Jindera

Sunday March 27, 2016, 80 miles (129 km) – Total so far: 190 miles (306 km)

The day does not get off to a great start. The ICs (inconsiderate c@&ts) next door started partying at 5pm. They promised to turn off the music at 1am. They slightly turned it down at 3am, put the volume back up at 5am when they started yelling again, and the music was still playing at 8.45am when I left. The long-time neighbours moved to Queensland and have rented out the house to these awful people who are routinely very noisy and will often play loud music til 12am on weeknights. Formal complaints will start being made…

The hazy sky is full of bushfire smoke from prescribed burns. Any perfect day in autumn when there are perfect temperatures and light wind will not be so perfect because there will always be smoke hanging about. My plan is to ride to Bowna – see how my asthma is faring – and then continue on or return home. What I really want to do is ride 76 miles today so I can ride my birthday year in my 40th birthday month. Read more →

4,000 for 40 – March 2016 Goal Summary

E Sharp

To make my goal of riding 4,000 miles this year, with 4,000 kilometres within that being loaded touring… I need to ride 350 miles each month, including 350 kilometres of touring: 350 miles/kms x 12 months = 4200 miles/kms

So for March I rode:
March Unloaded Miles: 200 miles
March Loaded Miles: 478 miles (769 kms)
March Total Miles Ridden: 678 miles

Year to Date Unloaded: 243 miles
Year to Date Loaded: 926 miles (1490 kms)
Year to Date Total Miles: 1169 miles

Yay, March! We had to poach some days from February and take a week off work to make this happen, but we put down some good miles this month. We are now 100 miles ahead of the pace we need to make the total yearly mileage goal. We are also nearly halfway to our loaded goal. We climbed more than 50,000 cumulative feet in March, too. It has been such a fun month!