Hit my milestone today!

[CCrew]

When I rolled into the office at 3:45 am, I’m at 13,008 cycling commuting miles for 2011. Most I’ve done in a year given 4 years of bike commuting.

I feel old and tired :p

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[skreaminquadz]

Congrats CCrew!! That’s a remarkable achievement. I’d have to add the last 4 years of commuting to come close to that number.

[americancyclo]

Congrats! That must be one heck of a commute! I’m just glad I can average 10/mi/day for the year!

[Dirt]

When I see a milestone in my path, I usually try to steer around it.

I’m about 120 miles behind you, though my miles are not just commuting. Congrats, sir! You are truly amazing.

[Mark Blacknell]

Yep, pretty awesome. Except for the 3:45am part. That’s just nuts.

[Greenbelt]

Wow. I’m closing in on 6k for the year. Don’t know how I could even approach 13k unless I went back and forth to work twice a day!

[jrenaut]

I think I’d have to do 6-7 round trips to work per day to hit 13000 miles in a year. Congrats, that’s an awesome number.

[DSalovesh]

Congrats! I’m pretty close to 13,000 myself. Only 11,750 to go…

[acc]

Congratulations! What has been the highlight of this year’s commuting? I know as most who read along with the bouncing ball what the bad part was — being robbed at gunpoint.
ann

[PrintError]

Impressive!!! I was on page for about 6,200 commuting miles this year, but moved to an office a stone’s throw from home back in May. 4 mile commute = I’m sitting at a meager 3,400 miles for the year.

You guys are my heros.

[mrkenny83]

Holy Wow!

I’d have to ride to work everyday (including weekends)…. and THEN add on an additional 5 miles a day to get up to 13,000.

TOTALLY something to be proud of!

[CCrew]

@acc 11914 wrote:

Congratulations! What has been the highlight of this year’s commuting?

I would have to say that it’s some of the people I’ve met. Lots of good people that I wouldn’t have had the pleasure of their acquaintance were it not for the bike. Yourself certainly included.

Mileage is a subjective number, at 46 miles a day it’s not hard to run the numbers up. Thanks everyone for the congrats though.

The nice weather days that I get the crazy notion to park in Purcellville or Leesburg and ride to downtown I really do in retrospect question my sanity though. Or maybe days like this morning when I get on the bike @ 24 degrees!

[eminva]

Congrats! And here I was all impressed with myself for totaling 3000 miles on my bike this year.

Rough guess is that I bicycle commuted about 60% of the days I went to work this year. Which is pretty good considering I only had a road bike and was off the bike for several weeks early in the year when the ice age hit the Dunn Loring part of the W&OD. Hope to improve my percentage in 2012, as I am now the proud owner of studded tires on my mountain bike.

Liz

[CCrew]

You know, anyone here that’s even commuting a small part of the time deserves kudos. We’re a different breed for sure than the majority of DC commuters for sure. I can’t help but think of Wall-E sometimes when I metro in or even pass cars in traffic!

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[off2ride]

Krikey!!! 13K for the year!!! I’m just passing 3400 for my milestone. Congratulations!!!

[KLizotte]

Whoa. I only *drive* about 2,500-3,000 miles a year.

I’m flabbergasted that you:

1) Get to work at 3:45 am. Note: I don’t usually go to bed till 1:00 am.
2) Bike to work and still manage to arrive at 3:45.
3) Ride daily distances that I only see on the *weekends* during the warm weather months.

You should figure out how many incremental calories you’ve burned (that is, above what you would have burned taking metro or driving in).

Can you eat whatever the heck you want, all the time?!

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