Three thousand is an odd number.  As an abstract number, it doesn’t seem that big, but it’s larger than we tend to deal with in our daily lives.  Most of us don’t have $3,000 freely available.  I don’t come close to weighing 3,000 ounces.  3,000 minutes takes two and a half days to live through.   Even the AIDS/LifeCycle ride is only 545 miles (872 km if you want to use a smaller measurement); I’d have to ride it five and a half times (for 39 days straight) to reach 3,000 miles.

But that got me to thinking.  Could I ride 3,000 miles – one mile for every dollar I want to raise – before the big ride in June?  It’d take 12 miles a day on average to do that, but that might not be too hard; that’s exactly what I did during May is Bike Month.

Of course, in May I was much more aggressive about riding every day, but I’m still pedaling to work (the main source of my mileage) at least three days a week right now.  And despite early rains, May was filled with beautiful cycling weather – something that probably can’t be said about November.  But I’ll also be going on longer and longer training rides in the next few months, too.

So I’ll set myself the unofficial goal of biking 3,000 miles before AIDS/LifeCycle.  I won’t track every day’s mileage, but a two-wheel work commute four days a week and cramming in a forty mile training ride on the weekend ought to push me well over, without even considering cycling trips for fun or errands.