Ride Diary

Last night, I showed Gwenda the bicycle ride diary I keep to track my yearly mileage and to remind myself of routes and so on. She said I should put it on my blog. That strikes me as pretty deadly dull for y'all most days, but I guess I'll do it every once in awhile.

I'll need to jazz it up for the paying customers though, because, for example, my entry for today reads:

Added some stuff to the All Fayette project by doing the Bryan Station/Hutchinson/Avon loop.

mileage: 29.05
avg: 15.4 mph
time in saddle: 1:52:35

year mileage: 449.49
year time in saddle: 01:11:03:20

Which is pretty cryptic. But it basically means that I rode 29 miles today in northeastern Fayette and southwestern Bourbon Counties here in central Kentucky; from our house in downtown Lexington out through the communities of Bryan Station, Muir, Hutchison, Avon and Montrose. The other stuff is just speeds and times. I don't track my average speed over the year because it would be depressingly slow (a lot of my mileage, especially during the colder months, is commuting on my hybrid bike).

The first shot is just of a little country lane. Then there's a picture of a tributory to the Elkhorn Creek, swollen and muddy from last night's storm. I took a picture of the store at Muir because the hand-lettered sign taped to the pole out front says "Bar Open" (the store is named for the road and not the village, presumably, since Bryan Station proper is several miles to the south). I took the picture of the sheep because around here you never see anything but horses.

I took the picture of the horse because I figured people would like to see a picture of a horse.