It's time for some end of year recap posts, starting with my year in cycling 2025. A year ago I posted a recap of my year in cycling for 2024 which covered a wide range of topics including a short history of my bikes, cyclo-computers, and overall trends over two decades. This year's update is much more brief: I've updated the plots I made a year ago with another column for 2025. Here are some highlights:
- I went on 164 rides, which is 31 more times than I ever have previously1. To put this in perspective, in 2018 I rode my bike only 22 times total
- My total distance of 6,735 KM and time of 277 hours is second only to 2011, which was pre-children. This even bested two years (2006, 2007) when I was still a graduate student and was actively participating in races
- I climbed over 80,000 meters, which is my most ever2
- I climbed 3.5% more meters per KM than last year, but my average speed was basically the same, which I think is cool
I don't know if I can practically beat some of the maxes above unless I make some life changes, such as moving somewhere without four seasons, or convincing someone to pay me to ride my bike (which in all honesty, no one should). Overall, I feel pretty great about my cycling in 2025, and my goal for 2026 is to achieve about the same results.
- It's likely that my true maximum(s) are higher, such as my gap year between college and graduate school when I was basically unemployed, didn't have a girlfriend, had no responsibilities, and rode my bike a bunch. But I don't have records from then ↩︎
- I did some of this analysis a few days ago and realized I was this close 🤏🏼 to besting my previous climbing max, so I purposely did a hill repeat ride to close out the year ↩︎