burying 2009's first six

riding in the snow is fun! i rode for just over an hour and a half. it was 9 degrees when i started, 19 when i ended. the sun is trying really hard to come out from behind the clouds. it is a beautiful, practically windless day in kansas! the perfect kind of day to pass a milestone. and that's exactly what i did.

after riding once around the holden nature center loop which had a little too much loose snow for my tastes, i decided to ride up and down hard packed main street in argonia for as long as it took to put on enough miles to top the mileage of the first six months of 2009.

so i rode back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, up and down the mile or so of main street. twice i rode out past the river south of town and back, but mostly it was back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, up and down the mile or so of main street.

when my odometer hit 16.38 miles, 1/100th past what i needed to bury last year's first half, i stopped. melvin was out shoveling snow. i shouted at him: " i just rode more miles in one month than i did in the first six months of last year!" that said, i rode on and on and on. i added another five miles before calling it a day.

now its time to go shovel my own snow. (21.45 miles @ 13.0mph)