Yearly Goal met, and re-set

[the Ferret]

Day 323 and 31 for 31 in December. Last ride of the year. As I promised Empty Sea it would be on the CB. Told my wife I was going to try and at least get in 77 miles to take me to next 100 mile level

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Had to get on the road early as chances of rain increased dramatically after 11 AM (BTW it's not 11:23 and still not raining lol). Weather bug said 37 when I took off. There were still some remmnants of yesterdays snow in the grass but it was a non issue on the roads

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the sky was rather foreboding

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Stonelick Lake is about 30 miles from my house so I decided to ride over there and then take the long way home which should give me the miles I needed

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on the way home I had dropped to 2 bars so a fill up was in order. I stopped in the town of Bethel where there is a Tier 1 gas station (BP). I had gone 144.9 miles and it took 2.6 gals to refill. My calculator in my phone said that worked out to 55.7 mpg

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when I pulled into the drive my Trip A read 81.2 miles

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By the numbers 323 days out of 366 ridden in 2016 for a total of 25,304 miles which is 78 miles per day average

17,530 of those miles were on the ST, and 7,774 miles on the CB.
I have not missed a day since July 1, and as stated earlier if not for 2 vacations with the family 1 in May and 1 in June I would not have missed a day since May 1st. I missed 2 days in April, and 5 days in March. January and February were the worst being winter and all and I missed 24 days during those 2 months (but still managed to ride 36 days during those 2 months).

It's been a fun year and a lot of riding.... and it starts all over again tomorrow Jan 1 2017. Retirement has it's advantages.