January is over and my biking didn’t quite turn out like I planned. I didn’t start riding until January 8th because I was out of town until January 5th. January 6th and 7th I was sick but determined to get moving on Monday the 8th. My goal was 334 road miles for the month. The week of January 8th I rode once on the road. There would a gap of many days before the weather allowed me back outside. The other days I rode indoors: 5 times on Zwift and once on Rouvy. I tried Rouvy to refresh my memory. The experience was good but there wasn’t other riders. The big problem was not being able to save the screenshots that supposedly captured during the ride. The 13th was the first day of the below freezing weather lasting through the 16th. Below is an overview of the week. January 10th I rode Stage 2 Tour de Zwift Group B, 3 laps of Rolling Highlands + lead-in. Who knew frigid weather would happen. That has been in February lately.

Week two began with freezing weather. All rides were in the virtual world on Zwift. Road miles didn’t happen because of the weather. I rode different routes each day. January 15th was Stage 3 of the 2024 Tour de Zwift.

I hoped for better weather in week three. Monday through Wednesday Zwift rides only. Tuesday I rode Zwift twice which I don’t remember doing before. Thursday and Friday the weather was good enough to get some road miles. By now reaching my goal didn’t look good. On the 23rd Stage 5 Tour de Zwift group C put me climbing 2 steep hills.

Wrapping up the month I rode three days in a row outside. Since my road goal was out of reach I wanted to narrow the loss. I ended the month with 203.2 road miles and a total of 562.84 road and Zwift miles. This year I set each month’s goal on a weighted basis from last year’s month activity. Before I guessed at each month with an eye on the miles from the previous years. I never checked to see if my monthly goals added up to the year’s goal. This year they do. The maintenance on January 29th fixed a rear tire flat on the Cervelo Caledonia when the adhesive patch came loose. I replaced with the old time glued patch.