the year’s not over yet; I have a NYE ride planned that should push me over the 3,500 mile and 200,000 feet mark.
This is the most distance I’ve done in a year by a pretty wide margin, besting 2019’s 3,314 miles and 2022’s 3,015 miles. In terms of feet I think it’s going to work out to my second biggest year. No way I’m touching 221,296ft from 2018 but if everything goes to plan on the 31st I should top 2021’s 201,520ft.
This was a good year with a bunch of fun rides with great people. I’m super happy that I got to go back to Japan, and even though I DNF’d a few big events - Deathride, Gravel Worlds (for the third time lol) - I did manage to go and push my distance-in-a-day boundaries and do a few brevets.
Very little camping this year, which I’m a little sad about. I think I only got out there twice, for Irving’s Superbowl and Solstice campouts? Very little dirt riding in general. I really need to get out in the wilderness a little more in 2024.
I need to thin the herd and sell some bike parts in 2024. I literally have not touched the Black Mountain R+ since mid-september when I finally put the Romanceür together, I need to sell the titanium Vaya that I’ve been keeping around as a “loaner bike” for 5+ years, I have too many pairs of handlebars on the shelf and wheels/tires up in the rafters. I need to sell all the hoarded junk I’m not using, ESPECIALLY because I am thinking about moving north to SF to be nearer to all of my friends and there’s no way I’m going to find a place with as much space for bullshit as I have now.