Back in the saddle

In an effort to get back to blogging I'm going to start blogging about my cycling miles. One of my goals is to complete BRAN (Bike Ride Across Nebraska) in June. My goal is to have at least 1000 miles by June 1st. I started training Feb 1 inside on my trainer. Winter here in Nebraska has been brutal this year so getting outside to ride has been impossible. Hopefully by March it will start to warm up and melt all this snow off. We had two blizzards roll through here in Dec and haven't had many days over freezing. My other goal is to get over 2000 miles on my bike this year. I'm sure I can get more, but 2000 is where I will start. Once I reach that, I'll bump it up. I think 3000 is attainable. So far I have set small goals of 50 miles a week on the trainer. 10 miles a day M-F. Although I got my 50 miles in last week I skipped a couple days and made up for it by doing a couple 15 mile rides. Although I didn't follow my plan (I rarely do) I did realize that 10 miles is too easy. So this week I'm doing 15 miles for a weekly goal of 75 miles. i can do 15 miles in under an hour so it doesn't take a huge amount of time and for now it's a good distance.