Today I rode home from work with my buddy Clay. The ride is not a short one. Today, my ride was 40.21 miles long, putting me at 281.2 miles for the year, leaving 2218.8 miles to go (88.75% remaining to my goal). Instead of pressing ‘lap’ on my GPS, I pressed ‘Start/Stop’, so my data is missing 4 miles, a total time, and an accurate total calories. At 36.21 miles (what my GPS ‘total’ mileage reads), I burned 2758 calories, or 76 calories per mile. By extrapolation, I can say that I burned 3062 calories total, including the miles not recorded on the GPS.

Another annoyance on the trip was that the speedometer attached to my bike kept fritzing out. That was the worst part of the day. Other than that, it was a nice day riding. My wife says that my face got too much sun, but it felt more like windburn to me.

My goal is to be able to ride home at an 18 mph average, instead of the 16.4 I have been averaging. Well, there’s always next time.

Also, my core is STILL sore from the tabata burpees earlier this week. The fallout from that has been an experience. I will continue these for six weeks before deciding on how useful they are to me.