I got out on my bicycle today and did my first 20 miles of 2008. That's about 13 more miles than I did during all of January last year. Of course, I was at home on oxygen December a year ago, and January was another month of convalescence. Then I started slow in February.

In fact, today was the first time I've been on my bike in weeks. When the temperature has been below 40 degrees, I've used an exercise machine rather than risking the cold air on my lungs. (Since I like to do my week-day exercise rides at sun-up, it was that cold most mornings in December.) So, in 2007 I pretty much lost January, February and December, and still I ended up riding 2,572 miles. That's pretty good! I rode 380 miles on my commuting/errand-running bicycle, the rest on my road bike.