My Bike Turns 2000

Well kind of… Today (or more accurately at about 4:57pm this afternoon) my bike officially reached its first 2000km. Last year for my birthday (sometime in October *grin*), the family got me a Cat Eye cycle computer. Although I had been riding it to work for a couple of weeks before then and many times without the Cat Eye, I now have visual proof of this significant (at least for me) event.

To give you a few ideas of exactly how far this is:

  • A little over the distance driving from Brisbane to Sydney and back again. (1964km)
  • Approximately the same length as the Great Barrier Reef coral strip
  • It’s a little over halfway between Los Angeles and New York City (3933km) – I’m not too strong on US geography so I have no idea where that is
  • 40, 000 laps of an Olympic sized pool