2016 Season Statistics
Being able to participate in such a significant life-changing endeavor as the 2016 Ride4Gabe was certainly the highlight of my cycling year, and that led spontaneously to the establishment of a primary goal for 2016 – to ride in every county in Alabama in one year. I set this goal when I joined Michael Staley, Wes Bates, and Payne Griffin for the Alabama stretch of Ride4Gabe – a 2000+ mile ride from the Canadian border in Maine to the USS Alabama at Battleship Park in Mobile, Alabama. I realized during the ride that if I biked back to Birmingham after the finish in Mobile and veered west along the Mississippi border, I would hit counties that I can’t normally reach from Birmingham on my training rides. Similarly, I was only able to reach the counties in southeastern Alabama via a two day 500+ mile loop during Fall Break with my 2017 Race Across America crew chief Jeffrey White providing support.
2016 county heat map covering ALL of Alabama in one year! Numbers in parentheses are the number of different rides that entered the county.
Topocreator map of all my rides in 2016 that started and/or ended in Alabama. Click the image to zoom in or to see even more detail, download super hi-res (41MB) version.
2016 Statistics
| Statistic | Avg | Max | Min | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly training time (hours) | 31:09 | 64:19 | 06:12 | 1628:26 |
| Weekly distance (miles) | 457 | 954 | 59 | 23,876 |
| Weekly climbing (feet) | 41,934 ft | 79,459 ft | 1,299 | 2,192,569 ft |
| Ride distance (miles) | 69.8 | 379.3 | 2.6 | 23,876 |
Comparison to past years
All these stats are based on the calendar year January 1st – December 31st.
| STAT (total) |
2008 Total Avg/Max |
2009 Total Avg/Max |
2010 Total Avg/Max |
2011 Total Avg/Max |
2012 Total Avg/Max |
2013 Total Avg/Max |
2014 Total Avg/Max |
2015 Total Avg/Max |
2016 Total Avg/Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time (hours) | 712* 13.7/20.2 |
617 11.9/19.2 |
766 14.7/21.3 |
1,146 22.0/28.2 |
1,427 27.4/45.2 |
1,417 27.3/39.6 |
1,551 29.8/40.0 |
1,970 37.9/101.0 |
1,628 31.1/64.3 |
| Dist (miles) | 12.2k 235/337 |
11.5k 221/361 |
13.9k 268/378 |
18.1k 346/503 |
20.7k 399/650 |
20.5k 394/587 |
22.1k 424/632 |
30.1k 579/1,660 |
23.9k 457/954 |
| Climb (feet) | 642k 12k/20k |
859k 17k/32k |
963k 19k/34k |
2,135k 41k/58k |
2,611k 50k/100k |
2,522k 49k/80k |
2,757k 53k/89k |
3,323k 64k/122k |
2,193k 42k/79k |
2016 Racing Summary
With only nine races this year, this has been the least amount of racing I’ve done in some time. Still, it was a great year of racing highlighted by winning the Skyway Epic 100 mile mountain bike race in April. I’ve finished 2nd every time I raced this race, but finally pulled out the win this year. I tried to follow this up the next day with a road racing adventure by riding to the start of the Tour de Tuscaloosa Road Race, racing the Pro/1/2 road race, and then planning to ride home afterwards. I was so wiped out by the end of the race, though, that I caught a ride back to Birmingham with my friend Chris Winslett.
Topocreator map with satellite imagery zoomed in. The “end of the appalachians” is the spur from my route down in the lower left. Sand Mountain is also down there. Click to enlarge and see detail.
Topocreator.com map of my 4-county “western reverse” loop. Click to enlarge and see detail.
