Thanks for a terrfic cycling year!
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- December
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As I watch the snow fall I wanted to thank you for being a big part of my 2008. Thanks to all the new friends I’ve passed 2,600 miles with. (Please vote how many miles you rode in 2008 in our current poll.) Thanks for the laughs and encouragement during those miles. A special thanks to the “core group” of Mid-Week Maintenance friends. Thanks to Herb Pinder, Editorial Page Editor who asked in the late spring if I’d be interested in picking up David Wilson’s idea of a cycling blog. After a few days of thought I said’ I’d give it a try and recruited to leaders in the cycling community to help provide content. David Wilson who left the paper a year earlier and now is a freelance writer and president of the Westchester Cycle Club and David Schloss, president of the Rockland Bicycling Club and who also happens to be a professional writer and photographer. Thanks to both of you for your friendship and love of cycling. A special thanks to all of you the readers of Cycling Central. Knowing you are reading helps motivate me to ride to help generate ideas and content.
When I moved here in the fall of 2005 I had been riding the flats in Toronto, but starting a new job and being faced with the sharp challenging hills here I put the bike away over that winter. I took one ride with David Wilson that let me know I was not in any shape for the riding here and instead of digging in and getting on the bike I put it in the basement telling myself I’d ride again but to focus on other things for now.
In the winter of 2007 I was getting the inch to ride again. I had kept riding my mountain bike a little on the dirt road I live on. I put the road bike on the trainer and started to ride a half an hour a few times a week. In 2008 my weight was 196 pounds and resting heart rate 56. Now I’m 175 – put on a few holiday pounds and my heart rate has dropped to 52. The highlights include riding in the Tour de Putnam, The Tappan Zee Ride for MS, and meeting some very inspirational people while helping at The Hershey Tour de Pink.
It’s great to be back riding and in better fitness. My personal goals for next year are to drop another ten pounds or more and have a resting heart rate of 48, a beat or two below my age. I also hope to ride 3,500 to 4,000 miles and be comfortable on riding with the A group.
Cycling Central had a successful start in 2008 and has some new ideas kicking around for 2009.
Happy New Years!
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