How many miles per week?

xcmad
xcmad Posts: 110
edited May 2011 in MTB general
How many miles per week do you do? Interested to benchmark. Please state your level of competition, if any.

I try to do 100miles per week, mix of commuting, night rides and w/end rides. I roll around the top 10-15 of MTB masters XC.

2011 mileage www.dailymile.com/people/SteveJ6
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    No idea, don't care. In time between 6 and 12 hours.
    In a previous thread when we decided
    Beginner = training wheels
    Expert = paid to ride.
    Intermediate = everyone else.

    I came in as intermediate.
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Don't really count! Took the speedo off, and don't look up where I have been. Or rarely where I am going!
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  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    Come say hi in the Crudcatcher and join our monthly distance challenge :D

    We've got a mix in there, going from 900miles (ish) right the way down to zero.

    Me, I'm about 250-300 per month, don't compete though.
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Couple of miles on hilly singletrack can be much harder than 10 miles of easy fire road.
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  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    Roadies count miles
    Mtbers count pies.
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    i do all of my miles on a turbo trainer
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  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    i do all of my miles on a turbo trainer

    :lol:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    xcmad wrote:
    I try to do 100miles per week, mix of commuting, night rides and w/end rides. I roll around the top 10-15 of MTB masters XC.
    Good for you.
    However, do the XC masters not mind you rolling them around?
  • naefearjustbeer
    naefearjustbeer Posts: 182
    This Month so far I have done 66.99 miles, So endomondo tells me!
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Maybe rolling around is a euphemism?
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    My goal right now is to just lose weight, and have fun. I have no interest in competing at this time. I do about 100km roughly per week, and for me that is amazing. I'm a master of my own class, which is what is important to me!
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  • Rich Hcp
    Rich Hcp Posts: 1,355
    No idea.

    6 hours a week, all sorts of conditions.
    Richard

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  • getonyourbike
    getonyourbike Posts: 2,648
    around 135 miles a week for me.
  • weeksy59
    weeksy59 Posts: 2,606
    100ish miles and 4 hours spinning. It's amazing i'm still fat :(
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  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Steve James?

    Not the former master Steve James who is now in Elite presuambly, nor the Junior, also in Elite, so are there really 3 'Steve James' racing XC in the south!?
  • xcmad
    xcmad Posts: 110
    njee20 wrote:
    Steve James? so are there really 3 'Steve James' racing XC in the south!?

    I think there is also a Stephen James. Maybe we should have our own race? Never mind this Masters stuff.

    Interested to see some resent the very question of mileage. Personally I see it as the easiest way to measure the effort I'm putting in.

    I thought I would get bored plotting mileage, but its often the very motivation gets me out on the bike again. "...You wimp, you've only done 50m this week...." etc.
  • xcmad
    xcmad Posts: 110
    cooldad wrote:
    Maybe rolling around is a euphemism?

    Well..... no.

    I guess I have been known to fall off the bike and roll around the floor with cramp in both legs mid-race. Brass Monkeys 2010. And again in 2011.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Don't see any resentment, think you are being a bit touchy.
    I see some opinions and some jokes.
    I don't do smileys.

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  • xcmad
    xcmad Posts: 110
    cooldad wrote:
    think you are being a bit touchy.

    +1 Good point
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    I think there is also a Stephen James. Maybe we should have our own race?

    The Stephen James is the one who was a master, now an elite.

    As for mileage as a measure of your effort I'd say hours is far far better. Otherwise a week spent spinning easy gears on the road ends up looking like a better week than one spent thrashing around on the MTB!
  • mudsucker
    mudsucker Posts: 730
    I don't really count. At a guess maybe 150-225 per month.
    Bikes are OK, I guess... :-)

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  • mtb crazy
    mtb crazy Posts: 245
    i dont know how many miles i do, just go out for fun. i do go out every other day and its normally long rides, so i guess i do quite abit. im always shattered after but feels good!
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    on the MTB it varies, as I need to drive to ride and work long hours. so can have fair gaps before I can ride the MTB.

    where as I'm on the commute bike almost every day.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    xcmad wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    think you are being a bit touchy.

    +1 Good point
    I'll touch you in a minute. :lol:
  • t0pc4t
    t0pc4t Posts: 947
    don't know, about 75 miles commuting on the road, no idea on off road on the weekend, generally I get out once a weekend for about 3 hours, if I can twice
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  • SurferEv
    SurferEv Posts: 78
    Just started out MTB...

    Week before last did 36 miles
    Last week 38 miles
    Weekend just gone managed 33 miles over the 2 days

    Most of the above singletrack/fireroad/fields with a couple of miles of each rideout to get to the woods/parks/fields.

    My target is to get to 50 per week, then start increasing gradually.

    It's also a juggling act though with work and 2 young kids to get good long time-slots to get out and about. Loving every mile though :D
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    xcmad wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    think you are being a bit touchy.

    +1 Good point
    I'll touch you in a minute. :lol:

    You don't have a good touch in you.
    Obviously.
    I don't do smileys.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Just had a look on Endomondo, and I seem to do between 50 and 100 miles most weeks. I'm quite chuffed with that, since I've just stopped the ciggies (again) recently.
  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    Who freaking cares about distance... the only measuring stick I use is fun.
    I like bikes and stuff
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    joshtp wrote:
    Who freaking cares about distance... the only measuring stick I use is fun.
    In that case, I have at least 8 fun per week.

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