Happy Holidays! For this final post of 2023, I wanted to share my last RIDE of the year and look back at some highlights of my year riding INSIDE…please take time to comment and share some of yours!
My posting activity was pretty light this year…just under 20 ride posts and a total of just 39 posts overall, here are some more numbers: 28K views, 11K visitors, 218 subscribers, 110 likes, 17 comments.
Top viewed posts: People Like Us 2.0, Won’t Back Down, Ghosts & Monsters, Let Me Go, and TNT (70’s Theme Ride).
On Spotify, these were the top followed/liked/saved playlists of ’23: People Like Us 2.0 (66 likes), Won’t Back Down (36), Ghosts & Monsters – 2023 Halloween Ride (27), Baby One More Time / The Great COVER Up (22), and Better Together – Women’s History Month 90-min Endurance Mix (21). My personal favorite was an eclectic theme ride: Whole Lotta Love – Valentine’s Day Ride (17 likes)…a multi-decade, multi-genre mix of “love”-themed tracks.
Like every year I had many HIGHS, but in ’23 had more LOWS…
HIGHLIGHTS:
Several great Endurance rides at the Mary Free Bed YMCA with my colleague Doreen B. We had record participation this past winter!
Supportive team of cycle instructors at the Y…helping out with my planned and unplanned needs for class coverage.
A great week of summer fun at the cottage with friends and family last July…even my mom and dad come up for a day.
LOWLIGHTS:
My mom passed last September, following a severe stroke.
My wife was bitten by a dog in May and developed an uncommon, severe and disabling infection in her dominate hand…had three surgeries and was hospitalized for several days.
I had an emergency appendectomy which kept me off the bike for a few weeks.
I logged less hours on my road bike and the studio bike than 2022.
Looking ahead to 2024, who really knows what’s in store…but chances are, it’ll be another year of crazy, fun, sorrow, joy, anxiety, fitness, good music and good fortune…just ENJOY THE RIDE!
AND FINALLY, here’s my last gift to you and yours…
Ride Profile and Playlist – MAKE IT COUNT
- Warm-up: One Of Your Girls (SpedUp) / Troye Sivan, xxtritanzo, Speed Radio
- Combo flat: Lift Off (Instrumental) / Ehrling
- Combo climb: Eras Of Us / FLETCHER
- Power climb (combo): BOTH / Tiesto, David Guetta, Seth Hills
- Extended quick combo flat: Grown Woman / Beyonce
- Combo climb: I Got Nothing / MEDUZA, Ferreck Dawn, Clementine Douglas
- Tabata / sprint intervals: Make It Count / Armin van Buuren, Just_us
- Active recovery and flat cycling drills: Air / Heard Right, Jope, Beacon Bloom
- Jumps: Airplane Tickets / Pharrell Williams, Swae Lee, Rauw Alejandro
- Progressive rhythmic combo climb: One On One / The Knocks, Sofi Tukker
- Combo climb: 42 / Diplo, Maren Morris
- Final sprint intervals: Goes Like This / Hardwell, ShortRound
- Cool down: Everywhere, Everything / Noah Kahan, Gracie Abrams
- Stretch: Madness / Terra
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THANKS for following…Stay safe and BE WELL!
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