For my third year of Bike to Work month I planned to ride just a little more than the 1200 miles I did in 2014. Shortly into the month I realized it was no longer Bike to Work month, but Bike Month. This invited a lot of hard core cyclists riding large amounts of miles. Though discouraged initially I decided to push on with my original plan, but started adding rides during the weekend. The weekend rides got longer and longer until I was doing 80 miles and finally a 100 miles a ride. In my second to last week I did over 400 miles which was far beyond what I had ever done in the past. In the end I rode 1500 miles for the month and took 7th place for total miles. It showed I could compete with the hard core rides, but it wasn't fun. It impacted both my work and family so I don't plan to ride so many miles again.

A big help this year was I got to do few rides with my work mates. We did a morning ride across I-90, a evening ride around Mercer island and a 100 mile Flying Wheels ride. Our work team got 3rd place for average miles which was impressive as we were competing with teams from much larger companies.

I-90 Ride

Flying Wheels Start

First Hill

Final Stop

After Riding 100 Miles

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