6000

Yesterday's team ride took me over the 6,000 mile mark for the year. This is the earliest I've hit that mark since 2005.

2003 - 5,183.73 miles total
2004 - 5,188.05 miles total
2005 - 6,000 on 9/8 - 8,266.76 miles total
2006 - 6,000 on 10/9 - 7,191.75 miles total
2007 - 6,000 on 11/24 - 6,550.17 miles total with surgery and a 2 week Scotland vacation thrown in.
2008 - 6,000 on 9/21

Looks to be a good year mileage wise with no vacations on the books except for a short one to go camping, but that will only be a weekend trip. Training for 2008 began on October 20, 2007. Sounds like a reasonable date to begin training for 2009 so I'm going to be quite lazy over the next month and just ride around with no ambition and play with my TT bike. The good news is that I'll finish 2008 in way better form than I ended 2007. No burnout and no long time off the bike combined with several hard group rides per week has found me in good form. Between the vacation and surgery, I was off the bike for around 5 consecutive weeks. Not this year!