On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 8:53:28 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 3:42:37 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Friday, April 2, 2021 at 3:08:46 PM UTC-5, wrote:
6,000 miles a year until two years ago when it dropped to 5,500 and then last year when I barely made 4,000 with the F-ing lockdown.
Did the lockdown in California make it illegal for you to leave your house and ride alone? Or did all of the group rides in your area get canceled due to the lockdown? And you being a very sociable, loving person, would never ever ride alone. You have to be riding with someone to go out for a ride. Or are you simply blaming someone else you don't like for choosing to ride less last year?
The lockdown reduced my mileage because I wasn't commuting, and I was working a lot and didn't have the discipline to get up from my desk and go for a ride -- which also didn't help my weight. Commuting is compelled mileage, and even my relatively short commute was good for my fitness. I've really had to work at getting my daily mileage back up and throwing in rides that at least equaled my commute. I don't know what accounts for Tom's drop in mileage, but one would assume growing older does not help. I am not anticipating getting stronger as I grow older.

I'm in exactly the same position. By this time I would normally have 1,200 miles in a nasty winter like we've had but right now i have half of that.