This blog received its first entries on 1 January 2006 with a description of our family New Year’s Day Ride of that year. And since then I’ve bored readers with an annual summary at the end of both the first year and the second year. So here we go with the blog stats for the third year, 2008.
Posts and comments
There were 95 posts, with March (5 posts) being the leanest month and January (11 posts) being the most prolific. That’s a far cry from the heady days of 2006, when I produced “244 published posts, coming on average one every one and a half days or about twenty per month”, including one month with 33 posts! Was I doing any riding at all back then?!?
People must be visiting because I’m still getting comments. In 2006 comments per post were 1.4, in 2007 it was 3.7 comments per post and (despite a drop off in posts) comments remained at 3.9 per post for 2008. Clearly I’m not Bike Snob NYC, but I do appreciate it when people take the time to leave a note.
Referrers
In 2008 the top 25 referrers were:
Surly Dave’s About the bike
kimbofo’s London Cycling Diary
Chris’s life cycle
mumswobblings.blogspot.com (appears to be a dead link now)
vidman’s life cycle
Thanks to everyone here and anyone else who posted a link to treadly.net or otherwise sent interested people my way.
Popular pages of 2008
The top five pages of the year were:
- Hysterical moments in bicycle design—the surprise popular page of the year, thanks to a link from MAKE: blog.
In praise of power-assisted bikes—do you look down (just a little bit) on power-assisted bikes? Maybe you shouldn’t.
I’m detraining—what happens when you stop exercising and start detraining.
Psssssst off—after a crazy run of punctures, I shared a few thoughts on repairing flat tyres.
Now that’s a cool bike—and you thought scooters were for kids…
If I’d made a guess, it certainly wouldn’t have included all of those!
My stats
Now that I’ve finally pulled my finger out and started recording my mileage, I can report a few things about my riding.
Firstly, the embarassing fact that I only rode 168 days in 2008, that’s less than half the year. Hmm, room for improvement there.
As I generally count the return journey on commutes as a separate ride, I had 269 outings at a mean distance of 22.5km per ride (standard deviation 24.01, for the stats nerds) for a total of just over 6000km (or 3700 miles). Two rides were of more than 200km, five rides of 100–200km, and 13 rides of less than 10km (hey, it’s still riding). A mere five Audax rides among the lot—must improve that one in 2009!
I still like your “speedlinking” posts :-) A great 2009 for you, Treadly.
Posted by Fritz | 4 January 2009, 5:02 amKeep up the good work Treadly. I was just looking though my list of RSS feeds and ‘Treadly and Me’ is one of the few that has remained in my subscribed list since I first started using Google Reader.
I agree with Fritz, the ‘speedlinking’ posts are great, works for my attention span. The rest is still great though.
Posted by lock | 4 January 2009, 8:24 pm