#mile tracking

At the old rock shop on Sandy. 16 June 2026. Minolta XD5, MD Rokkor 45mm f/2 lens, Kodak Pro Image 100 We’re half-way through 2026, which has put me in a reflective mood, especially since June was my best month for biking so far this year. I managed 184.6 miles (295.5 km) over eighteen days. It may seem obvious that summer months equal more biking, but my second-best month in 2026 was January at…

Tracking the miles: Update

Secret path near Powell Butte. 23 April 2022. Camera: Olympus XA2/Film: Fuji C200 Three months ago I mentioned how I was logging every ride I did this year into a pocket Rhodia A7 notebook. While I don’t like to be overly anal about how much I ride, I knew that I wanted to “ride more” in 2022. Without an idea about how much I actually ride, I can’t exactly increase it. I’ve logged in four…

I’ve never been much for tracking the miles I bike. I’ll sometimes do it on bike tours, though, mostly because I have a Rite-In-The-Rain pocket size spiral notepad that lives in the map compartment of my North St. handlebar bag. (I bought this notepad at REI in Missoula, MT during the Big Tour in 2011, and on occasion I’ll flip back through it for fun.) Outside of that, no. I don’t use Strava and…

I started tracking my bicycling miles in 2022. After losing a bike commute and the atrophy of the COVID years, I realized that I needed to bike “more”, but I wouldn’t know what “more” looked like until I had a baseline to compare it against. I finished the first year with about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) ridden, not horrible, but compared to the probably 4-5,000 miles I’d ride five years previously,1…

Not my bike (obviously) but I dig the set-up of this All-City. 13 July 2025. Olympus XA/Fujicolor 100 It’s high summer here in the Northwest, though fall feels closer as the days grow shorter. July was pretty decent bike-wise for me. I racked up 175.2 miles (269.4 km) over 20 days. It’s a bit short of my 200 mile a month goal, but I’ll take what I can get. The past month I primarily rode the…

A cyclist takes the trail. Rosemont Bluff, 16 May 2025. Minolta XD5, MD Rokkor 45mm f/2, Fomapan 400 Another month closer to summer. I managed to ride 170.6 miles (274.6 km), just about thirty miles short of my 200 mile goal. While it would have been lovely to meet or exceed that goal, at least it’s better than the paltry 106 miles I got in during April. My life has again been busy this month,…

I try, I try. Ladd Circle, 22 April 2025. Olympus XA/Kodak Pro Image 100 In April I managed to ride 105.1 miles (169.1 km) over 16 days. This is the least amount of miles ridden in a month this year and way short of my goal of at least 200 miles in the month. And despite a goal of doing at least a 20 mile ride a week, my longest ride was barely 12 miles. To put it mildly, this was a light month…

Watching the UP Freight cross SE Taylor St, 22 March 2025. Pentax IQZoom/Espio 115G, Kodak Ultramax 400 Another month, another chance to “bike more”. While the universe may have been telling me miles don’t matter when I lost my bike mileage data when a can of beer opened in my bag last summer, I still do record them. This year has been going pretty good so far: I nearly reached 200 miles during…