I WANT TO RIDE MY BICYCLE...
I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like..."
-From "Bicycle Race" by Queen

I have a strange notoreity among my acquintances for biking everywhere because I don't have a car. This amuses some people, especially my colleagues, to no end. Of course, I work in an office and the industry is TV listings so I guess some people are more easily amused than others.

Anyways, because I am also a stats' geek, I keep a log of how much I ride. I've been keeping this log for about 6 years, but the first three years' logs were erased when my computer crashed.

I just did my stats for 2002 and it was a famous year.

TOTAL MILEAGE BIKED IN 2002: 1,987 miles -- 8.0 miles/day

This total smashes my old record by just under 18%. It is probably due in large part to the fact that because of the mild 2001-2002 winter, I never put my bike away for the season. My 2003 total will probably somewhat less for the opposite reason: I couldn't bring my bike out of storage until mid-March.

I also biked a record 80.9 miles during the week of 2-8 September.

I averaged about 8.6 miles/day on weekdays and 6.7 miles/day on weekends in 2002. This is a reverse from the previous two years when I'd biked nearly 1.5-2 miles/day more on weekends. This change is probably attributable to the fact that since my job relocated to another part of town, it takes me about 2.5 miles (one way) to get to work as opposed to the 1 mile previously.