Mileage and Climbing

I got back from the last ride of the year. Although my mileage and
climbing have been seriously effected by the loss of the hill roads, I
still put in 137,000 feet of climbing(about 42,000 meters) and 4,448 miles
(about 7200 kilometers).

I hope to improve on this next year since there was a lot of problems this
year like getting Shingles in July which would normally be a high mileage
month and having it rain for more than a week steady in December when it
is normally a dry month. Rain around here is normally in March and April.

Nevertheless, that isn't bad for an 80 year old. Flunky has gotten in less
than 1,000 miles and Krygowski what? 500? Liebermann got in 6 miles which
wasn't bad considering his physical condition. Juhn  talked about the old
days when he used to ride a bicycle.

I can remember bsck when the only people on the group were riders. But
after Jobst published what he thought was my address, half of the group
left and never came back. Part of that was that his publishing my mother's
address was just the last straw since most of the group didn't like the
group being largely about Jobst. What we need is Flunky telling us all
about Jobst when he wasn't here while Jobst was posting and leading rides.