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Lately is the tip of the seventeenth 12 months of this weblog and thus the tip of my seventeenth annual biking problem. How did I do as opposed to my 2021 Biking Problem (main points right here)? Neatly … there’s some excellent information and a few unhealthy information.
For evident causes I didn’t stray some distance from house very ceaselessly. And issues from my neck/backbone fracture a few years in the past has made very lengthy rides tricky. However I stayed lively, biking 250 instances and mountain climbing greater than a 100 instances in 2021.
The Excellent Information:
I did succeed in my number one purpose of 160,200 metres of vertical ascent.
Bear in mind: there are 525,600 mins a 12 months. Climb one foot a minute. 525,600 toes = 160,200 metres).
The Unhealthy Information:
However I failed in my different objectives as I handiest had a handful of rides that didn’t start and finish at my house. So I indubitably failed at my purpose of biking up 100 other cols. BUT, I will have to have a minimum of a 100 rides that integrated my native Col du Mont Sion. 🙂 Above the col are a number of unpaved routes up and throughout Mont Sion and I visited them ceaselessly in 2021:
Favorite Rides of the 12 months
1. L. a. Barillette at Daybreak
Some other a part of my 2021 problem was once “No less than one nice daybreak journey.” Luck!
Excluding my spouse, I hardly ever rode with any person else this 12 months. However I met up with my nice pals Tim and Richard in October to cycle as much as L. a. Barillette for the daybreak. Wooohooo! Fabulous perspectives of the far-off Alps had been the praise for the early get started at nighttime. Main points right here.
2. Cormet de Roselend by way of Col du Pré
Ridden simply ahead of the Dauphiné. Bear in mind, by way of Col du Pré is the easiest way as much as Roselend as you get to journey around the rattling dam. Main points right here.
3. Plenty of rides with my spouse
I had reasonably a couple of rides with my superb spouse. At all times a laugh.
4. Rides above the clouds
Autumn the place I are living can ceaselessly be darkish, foggy, and overcast. But when one cycles top sufficient it’s ceaselessly conceivable to seek out the solar above the clouds.
Ultimate Ideas
I do know 2021 was once a difficult 12 months for nearly everybody. For me, the important thing to happiness and well-being is workout. I simply really feel higher no longer simply all the way through but in addition after a a laugh motorbike journey. I’m unhappy to not have accomplished all of my 2021 Biking Problem – however am happy I stayed lively.
I want everybody a Happier New 12 months. Be nicely.
Will
A couple of extra 2021 pictures
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