I like to ride my bicycle...

I got into cycling last year, and I absolutely love it. I never really thought I could like it as much as I do. It is strangely addicting. It basically started out of a desire to save on gas money. My work was only 6 miles away. So I started riding Emily's mountain bike to and from work. That lasted a couple months before winter came. During that time, I was quite frequently getting passed by "cyclists" who seemed to be going at least twice as fast as I was. I began to realize that the mountain bike, though a very decent bike, was not the best suited bike for all that road riding. I ended up shopping around, and got a great deal on this bike - the Giant OCR C3. It's a fantastic little machine. It's perfect for the kind of riding I do. It's got a full carbon fiber frame, so it's very light, and very fast. It's not a racing bike, more of a performance/touring bike. The place I bought it from custom fit it to my little 5'3" frame, so my body handles it really well. Last year I rode a little over 1,200 miles, and lost 25 pounds along the way. This year I'd like to keep the same pace, but would really like to ride a century. A century is kind of the biker's marathon. It's 100 miles. The one I want to do, the ULCER (Utah Lake Century Epic Ride) is 111 miles. That's coming up in August. So that is my goal. They say that if you can ride 70 miles, then you can ride 100. So that's what I'm working towards, little by little. Right now I try to ride about 20 miles a day or so depending on the weather. I'm going to keep a little log in here of my mileage. I'm not sure how though. Anyway, I'm rather excited about this goal - now to go make it happen.

This weeks mileage log through Wednesday: 40 miles.