Year Review 2023

Sitting down to write this has been challenging. I’ve had a full week off the bike now, which at the time felt like a well deserved reward but, in truth, feels like it has made me miserable. Maybe it’s the post Christmas blues, I don’t know. This last week I’ve slobbed out worse than usual … Read more

Year Review 2022

The past two years I have used Golden Cheetah to help me spit out lots of fancy charts and metrics to aid in my comparisons. Unfortunately this year Golden Cheetah has failed me, changing their UI signficantly and making it so I can no longer figure out how to access that data. Darn. Perhaps the … Read more

Year Review 2021

And so we reach the last day of 2021. Compared to 2020 it’s not been a bad year, off the bike at least. However, on the bike the numbers say, and I feel it has been significantly down. That’s not to say it’s been a bad year – there are, I believe, reasons why this … Read more

Year Review 2020

2020 has been a challenging year for all, I think that’s a fair assumption to make. It has been my first “full” year on the bike, and has helped me cope with the two biggest hardships that the year has thrown at me in a way that I could never have imagined. It wouldn’t be … Read more