rashbre central: press reset

Thursday 2 January 2014

press reset


All kinds of counts are reset to zero for the start of the new year, so I thought I'd cross check my bicycle stats. I've added all of the monthly running totals into a simple table and then compared the last two years.

My original target for each week was 40 miles and for a month was 160 miles, so I'm quite a way ahead of that. My baseline annual target was therefore 1,600 miles. I set braze, slier and gold targets on top at 2000, 3000 and 4000 miles to make it more interesting. Both of the last two years I've done well to pass the targets and this year the 6200 miles seems pretty good.

It's like the salesman problem though, where the targets get harder year on year, and I've not sandbagged any mileage to start the next year, so it could be difficult to increase any further than last time around.

After last evening's bash and a somewhat late start, I've managed to get in a few miles today, but I guess I'll have to ease myself back in after what feels like a quieter period around the festive season.

I've also been told about that dryathalon thing for January, and may well have a go at that as well.

So far, so good, as they say.

3 comments:

colleen said...

Love the title. It works in general. When I play with my 5 year old grandson, he'll say "press pause" when he needs to take a break (the computer game generation).

I thought I'd drop by (via Naomi)and see what London is doing these holidays.

MaR said...

Remembering Queen's "Bicycle, bicycle", happy new year, rashbre!

rashbre said...

colleen Pleased to see you drop by. I liked your first lines review of 2013! Facebook parsnips(!)

Marcy Mar Hey! Happy New Year!!