Sorry about the infrequency of posts

As a lot of you know, I'm a student, studying Psychology. I've had a very busy couple of semesters between training time, homework and other aspects of my life. In my quest to reinvent myself, and maintain the weight loss, I have to spend a lot of time. Often, I'll multitask, for example and read assignments while on the trainer. I'm planned several papers this way. It's interesting, but the exercise allows me to narrow my focus to pedaling, breathing and assimilating the information in the assignment.

Other than that, to me, cycling is a meditative time as well. On a ride, I fall down inside myself and all the pressures recede. My world is simplified to the simple concepts of breathing and patterns around me from the traffic. Time goes away, and so does pain and stress. It's a very Zen thing. That's a large part of what keeps me motivated as well.

I'm still running the Spinner Saturday Program, by the way, I've just hosted it online at Google for now. I'm currently working on a better version in full database form (LAMP or other) though and expect to hopefully have a Beta release on line under my own hosting at some point.

Spinner Saturday is located here

As to my cycling, that's a permanent life change. I'm happy to say that I'll ride til I die, or as long as I have even the capability to ride a trike even.

On another News Front: Tour de Cure

I'm pleased to announce that Team Stormcrowe is sitting in the number one slot for fundraising for the Indianapolis event on June 14th.

Final Correctioln on the Spinner Saturday totals:

100,288.28 miles, now that all the final miles are in. Not a bad effort everyone!

What is Spinner Saturday?

It's a program I started to track miles for a few friends and me to see what we did in a year on a bike. We're up to 71 members now, and next years goal is another 100,000 miles by bicycle.

It's the End of the Year:Totals

Well, we had a banner year with Spinner Saturday, I must say. We had originally set a goal of 50,000, then upped it to 80,000, and then 100,000 miles for the group for the year. We almost made the 100K!

Personal totals:

Tom Stormcrowe totals Average
Jan 186
Feb 230
Mar 524
Apr 365.76
May 454
Jun 619
Jul 530
Aug 676
Sep 75
Oct 142.2
Nov 604.3
Dec 355
Total 4761.26 Average 396.771666666667

Group Totals
997,006 miles by bicycle!***
There were a couple of late reporters, so I had to edit the total

Other News

I got several very nice items for Christmas, and enjoyed the last ride of the year on my bike yesterday. The weather today was too cold and tonight, it's going to be too bad for me to ride across midnight.

Items I got:

An Oregon Scientific ATC2K Action Camera. I got my first video up yesterday from it. It's pretty cool! I need to find a better mounting spot than the end of my aerobars though.

Video here


and some stills of me on the bike with the aerobars




Photography E. Leonard

So, on to a Happy and Prosperous 2008. Keep pedaling and stay alive!

The Spinner Report for the week

We've done pretty well this year.

Miles

Rider	9/8/2007	9/15/2007	9/22/2007	9/29/2007	Total
51	100.25	105.5			205.75
5th Circle					0
AaronW					0
Admiral					0
Adrien	96.86	123.41			220.27
A_Fire_Inside					0
Archienutt					0
Arctic Jill	194.2	110.5			304.7
BeckyW	9	35			44
Bdinger	42				42
Big Mike	93.5	202.36			295.86
ChunkyD					0
Colt45					0
Crymfyter					0
DanonBike	73.1	20.2			93.3
DavisClyde					0
DiabloRojo					0
DonHaller					0
Dpb13					0
Early					0
Edonis13					0
Epcolt	27.05				27.05
Fc	140	60			200
Funrover	21	51.5			72.5
Greyg8r					0
Genejockey					0
Huh					0
Huzzah					0
Halthane					0
Jeeper Tim	118	32			150
Joe Metal					0
Johannes					0
Jaxgtr	119.02	101.98			221
Jmarkley					0
Jumborider					0
Juvenile Tim	13				13
K4LK					0
Keithm0					0
Kensuf					0
Lil.Round1					0
Magool					0
Mkadam68	240.16	216.69			456.85
Neilfein	25.1	34.5			59.6
Obelix67					0
piper_chuck	60.9	73.1			134
Pupsocket					0
Raynman	18	15			33
RDRomano					0
Relayer					0
Ronjon10	126	62.56			188.56
Sandwarrior	86.69				86.69
Scotmorrsn	150	44			194
ShawnK					0
Solveg	56				56
Stearman					0
Stuejoe					0
The Historian					0
The Mrs	25				25
Tom Stormcrowe	25				25
Trolleyguy	149.5	140.2			289.7
Tskuller					0
Tt1106	333				333
Uncle Dan!	180	46			226
UTRacerDad	100	100			200
Wingman115					0
Wogsterca	48.5	59.7			108.2
Total	2670.83	1634.2	0	0	4305.03

Hours

Hours	9/8/2007	9/15/2007	9/22/2007	9/29/2007
51	9	9
5th Circle
AaronW
Admiral
Adrien	6.3	8.7
A_Fire_Inside
Archienutt
Arctic Jill
BeckyW
Bdinger
Big Mike
ChunkyD
Colt45
Crymfyter
DanonBike
DavisClyde
DiabloRojo
DonHaller
Dpb13
Early
Edonis13
Epcolt	2
Fc
Funrover	1.4	3.75
Greyg8r
Genejockey
Huh
Huzzah
Halthane
Jeeper Tim	8.9	2.4
Joe Metal
Johannes
Jaxgtr	7.75	6.9
Jmarkley
Jumborider
Juvenile Tim
K4LK
Keithm0
Kensuf
Lil.Round1
Magool
Mkadam68	15.25	13.35
Neilfein
Obelix67
piper_chuck
Pupsocket
raynman
RDRomano
Relayer
Ronjon10	9.8	4.5
Sandwarrior	5.8
Scotmorrsn	8.5	2.2
ShawnK
Solveg
Stearman
Stuejoe
The Historian
The Mrs
Tom Stormcrowe
Trolleyguy	11.23	11.35
Tskuller
Tt1106
Uncle Dan!
UTRacerDad	7	8
Wingman115
Wogsterca	4.2	5.4
Total	97.13	75.55	0	0

Annuals
Jan 4903.23
Feb 5582.93
Mar 8397.55
Apr 6339.49
May 8459.58
June 12301.61
July 11582.48
Aug 10273.52
Sep 4305.03
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total 72145.42

The charts are on display at the online page
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p8Y_TSW7LCrCm46dLj41DPw&hl=en&pli=1

Good job, all! Keep up yhr great work and keep riding!

The Spinner Report for Sept 9

Rider	9/8/2007	9/15/2007	9/22/2007	9/29/2007	Total
51	100.25	105.5			205.75
5th Circle					0
AaronW					0
Admiral					0
Adrien	96.86				96.86
A_Fire_Inside					0
Archienutt					0
Arctic Jill	194.2	110.5			304.7
BeckyW					0
Bdinger	42				42
Big Mike	93.5				93.5
ChunkyD					0
Colt45					0
Crymfyter					0
DanonBike	73.1				73.1
DavisClyde					0
DiabloRojo					0
DonHaller					0
Dpb13					0
Early					0
Edonis13					0
Epcolt	27.05				27.05
Fc	140				140
Funrover	21				21
Greyg8r					0
Genejockey					0
Huh					0
Huzzah					0
Halthane					0
Jeeper Tim	118				118
Joe Metal					0
Johannes					0
Jaxgtr	119.02				119.02
Jmarkley					0
Jumborider					0
Juvenile Tim	13				13
K4LK					0
Keithm0					0
Kensuf					0
Lil.Round1					0
Magool					0
Mkadam68	240.16				240.16
Neilfein	25.1				25.1
Obelix67					0
piper_chuck	60.9				60.9
Pupsocket					0
Raynman	18				18
RDRomano					0
Relayer					0
Ronjon10	126				126
Sandwarrior	86.69				86.69
Scotmorrsn	150				150
ShawnK					0
Solveg	56				56
Stearman					0
Stuejoe					0
The Historian					0
The Mrs	25				25
Tom Stormcrowe	25				25
Trolleyguy	149.5				149.5
Tskuller					0
Tt1106	333				333
Uncle Dan!					0
UTRacerDad	100				100
Wingman115					0
Wogsterca	48.5				48.5
Total	2481.83	216	0	0	2697.83

Hours	9/8/2007	9/15/2007	9/22/2007	9/29/2007
51	9	9
5th Circle
AaronW
Admiral
Adrien	6.3
A_Fire_Inside
Archienutt
Arctic Jill
BeckyW
Bdinger
Big Mike
ChunkyD
Colt45
Crymfyter
DanonBike
DavisClyde
DiabloRojo
DonHaller
Dpb13
Early
Edonis13
Epcolt	2
Fc
Funrover	1.4
Greyg8r
Genejockey
Huh
Huzzah
Halthane
Jeeper Tim	8.9
Joe Metal
Johannes
Jaxgtr	7.75
Jmarkley
Jumborider
Juvenile Tim
K4LK
Keithm0
Kensuf
Lil.Round1
Magool
Mkadam68	15.25
Neilfein
Obelix67
piper_chuck
Pupsocket
raynman
RDRomano
Relayer
Ronjon10	9.8
Sandwarrior	5.8
Scotmorrsn	8.5
ShawnK
Solveg
Stearman
Stuejoe
The Historian
The Mrs
Tom Stormcrowe
Trolleyguy	11.23
Tskuller
Tt1106
Uncle Dan!
UTRacerDad	7
Wingman115
Wogsterca	4.2
Total	97.13	9	0	0

Much delayed post! Spinner Saturday from last week, etc!

I've been absolutely swamped this week, what with school projects and such. I have a heavy class load with a lot of critical thought and reading for classes. It's been a bit of a challenge to find the time. It's also been a challenge between class requirements and the weather to get any ride time in. My miles for the week are only 25, and that was primarily commuting back and forth from school.

This week, I did get a small gift from the United States Marines. It was a hydration pack. I responded to a recruiting ad and even though I told them my real age, they still sent the pack. It's pretty nice too! The USMC response was that I am too old at 47 (Kinda what I figured), but they still sent the hydration pack.....which was pretty cool of them! Semper Fi to all you Marines out there and keep up the good work!


Now, here are last weeks Spinner Saturday Results

Rider	08/04/07	08/11/07	08/18/07	08/25/07	09/01/07	Total
51	105	46	125	114.5	102	492.5
5th Circle	10	67	20	8	26	131
AaronW		24				24
Admiral						0
Adrien		98.13				98.13
A_Fire_Inside						0
Archienutt	94.5		32	58		184.5
Arctic Jill	103.3					103.3
BeckyW	23	33	45.4	30.5	21.6	153.5
Bdinger	32.5		75	63		170.5
Big Mike	141.3	81.4				222.7
ChunkyD						0
Colt45						0
Crymfyter	45					45
DanonBike	51.8					51.8
DavisClyde						0
DiabloRojo						0
DonHaller				100		100
Dpb13						0
Early						0
Edonis				126		126
Epcolt	75.35	51.6	40.26	77.2	40.64	285.05
Fc	85	100.5		105.7		291.2
Funrover	36			55		91
Greyg8r						0
Genejockey				91	143	234
Huh						0
Huzzah	76.93	50				126.93
Halthane	101.2	114.1	98			313.3
Jeeper Tim	70.5	61	69.5	77	110	388
Joe Metal	93.4					93.4
Johannes						0
Jaxgtr	13.5	101.9	30	100.23	0	245.63
Jmarkley			30.1	101.23		131.33
Jumborider						0
Juvenile Tim						0
K4LK			44	53		97
Keithm0	22					22
Kensuf	106	229	284	158	193	970
Lil.Round1						0
Magool						0
Mkadam68	232.05	249.02	148	249.06	168	1046.13
Neilfein	53.4		60	52.7		166.1
Obelix67						0
PellTA						0
Pupsocket	28	20.9		32.6		81.5
RDRomano						0
Relayer						0
Ronjon10	102.73	123	121	78.77	44.36	469.86
Sandwarrior	92.4	4.13	121	126.4	92.7	436.63
Scotmorrsn	88		68	38	79.7	273.7
ShawnK		13				13
Solveg	46	74	105	67	63	355
Stearman						0
Stuejoe			40.7	68.7		109.4
The Historian	122.59	101	32			255.59
The Mrs	155	160	100	25	155	595
Tom Stormcrowe	155	179	100	87	155	676
Trolleyguy	85.1	88.6	92.3	100.4	122.8	489.2
Tskuller						0
Tt1106						0
Uncle Dan!	101.5	97.5	45		180	424
UTRacerDad	74	151	119	92	107	543
Wingman115						0
Wogsterca	38.4	65	66	75	101	345.4
Total	2660.45	2384.65	1380.08	2410.99	1904.8	10740.97

Hours	08/04/07	08/11/07	08/18/07	08/25/07	09/01/07	Total
51	9	4				13
5th Circle	0.7	4.25	1.5	0.7	2	9.15
AaronW		4				4
Admiral						0
Adrien		6.6				6.6
A_Fire_Inside						0
Archienutt	5.5		2	3.5		11
Arctic Jill						0
BeckyW	2.5			4.2	2.1	8.8
Bdinger						0
Big Mike						0
ChunkyD						0
Colt45						0
Crymfyter	4					4
DanonBike						0
DavisClyde						0
DiabloRojo						0
DonHaller						0
Dpb13						0
Early						0
Edonis				7
Epcolt	6.25	4.06	3.75		3.4	17.46
Fc						0
Funrover	2.2			4.5		6.7
Greyg8r						0
Genejockey				6	9	15
Huh						0
Huzzah	5.9	3.7				9.6
Halthane	6.9	7.7				14.6
Jeeper Tim				5.5	8.5	14
Joe Metal	7.5					7.5
Johannes						0
Jaxgtr	1	6.3		6.5		13.8
Jmarkley						0
Jumborider						0
Juvenile Tim						0
K4LK						0
Keithm0	1.6					1.6
Kensuf	5.25	12	13.5	8.5	10.75	50
Lil.Round1						0
Magool						0
Mkadam68	13.7	11.05	8.5	15	10.9	59.15
Neilfein						0
Obelix67						0
PellTA						0
Pupsocket	2.15	1.5		1.25		4.9
RDRomano						0
Relayer						0
Ronjon10	6.2	7.75	7.5	6.9	3	31.35
Sandwarrior	6.5	0.3		8.9	6.4	22.1
Scotmorrsn				2.25	4.4	6.65
ShawnK						0
Solveg						0
Stearman						0
Stuejoe			3.5	6.2		9.7
The Historian						0
The Mrs						0
Tom Stormcrowe						0
Trolleyguy	8	8.1	8.4	8.7	10	43.2
Tskuller						0
Tt1106						0
Uncle Dan!		12				12
UTRacerDad	6.5					6.5
Wingman115		0				0
Wogsterca	3.3	5.7	5.9	6.5		21.4
Total	104.65	99.01	54.55	102.1	70.45	430.76

Great Job, everyone!