Average ride length?
bongofish
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Mine seems to be about 19 miles but seems short compared to people on Strava.
Wondering what's yours?
Wondering what's yours?
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Not everyone's fitness will be the same and not all our goals will be the same. You do what you're comfortable with, it's not a competition. Most of my rides are around the 50-80km mark though I have done a few centuries too. A century represents about 4 hours in the saddle for me and to be honest 4 hours is enough.0
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Depends on the season and fitness. 60miles or so in the winter and up to 80/100 in the summer.0
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Bongofish wrote:Mine seems to be about 19 miles but seems short compared to people on Strava.
Wondering what's yours?
A bit like asking what size trousers everyone wears. I wear 32s...0 -
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25 miles according to Strava, 30,332 miles in 1190 rides.
Longest 120 miles.0 -
less than 3 hours doesn't count as a ride.
intervals etc that are shorter don't count - they are just intervals, hill repeats, etc.
for a ride it has to be 60+ miles to count as a ride.
anything less is playing.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Matthewfalle wrote:less than 3 hours doesn't count as a ride.
intervals etc that are shorter don't count - they are just intervals, hill repeats, etc.
for a ride it has to be 60+ miles to count as a ride.
anything less is playing.
Not sure if this is a parody.0 -
Sgt.Pepper wrote:Matthewfalle wrote:less than 3 hours doesn't count as a ride.
intervals etc that are shorter don't count - they are just intervals, hill repeats, etc.
for a ride it has to be 60+ miles to count as a ride.
anything less is playing.
Not sure if this is a parody.
Either that, or Tyremuncher has hacked his account...0 -
Sgt.Pepper wrote:Matthewfalle wrote:less than 3 hours doesn't count as a ride.
intervals etc that are shorter don't count - they are just intervals, hill repeats, etc.
for a ride it has to be 60+ miles to count as a ride.
anything less is playing.
Not sure if this is a parody.
riders ride. others join clubs and talk about riding.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
I am more concerned that your saddle is affecting you after 19 miles.0
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Matthewfalle wrote:Sgt.Pepper wrote:Matthewfalle wrote:less than 3 hours doesn't count as a ride.
intervals etc that are shorter don't count - they are just intervals, hill repeats, etc.
for a ride it has to be 60+ miles to count as a ride.
anything less is playing.
Not sure if this is a parody.
riders ride. others join clubs and talk about riding.
Never thought I would agree with anything you had to say but today I concur.0 -
A century in 4 hours , your an elite cyclist then?bonk king wrote:Not everyone's fitness will be the same and not all our goals will be the same. You do what you're comfortable with, it's not a competition. Most of my rides are around the 50-80km mark though I have done a few centuries too. A century represents about 4 hours in the saddle for me and to be honest 4 hours is enough.0 -
creampie wrote:
A century in 4 hours , your an elite cyclist then?bonk king wrote:Not everyone's fitness will be the same and not all our goals will be the same. You do what you're comfortable with, it's not a competition. Most of my rides are around the 50-80km mark though I have done a few centuries too. A century represents about 4 hours in the saddle for me and to be honest 4 hours is enough.
He's talking in km, so probably means metric century..0 -
Matthewfalle wrote:less than 3 hours doesn't count as a ride.
intervals etc that are shorter don't count - they are just intervals, hill repeats, etc.
for a ride it has to be 60+ miles to count as a ride.
anything less is playing.
What if I do my 60 mile ride in under 3 hours? I'm so confused.
I'm now convinced that Bongofish is a parody/troll account. Either that or he has specific learning difficulties (in which case we should be more forgiving...)0 -
Imposter wrote:creampie wrote:
A century in 4 hours , your an elite cyclist then?bonk king wrote:Not everyone's fitness will be the same and not all our goals will be the same. You do what you're comfortable with, it's not a competition. Most of my rides are around the 50-80km mark though I have done a few centuries too. A century represents about 4 hours in the saddle for me and to be honest 4 hours is enough.
He's talking in km, so probably means metric century..
Thank you for clearing that one up for me imposter. He's obviously not an elite reader.0 -
Bongofish wrote:Mine seems to be about 19 miles but seems short compared to people on Strava.
Wondering what's yours?
I know a guy who only rides his bike 4 times a year and generally manages nearly 2,000 miles in total... left the forum March 20230 -
Mean, median or mode.
Most of my rides last year were 11 miles. That's my distance to work.0 -
My "Edddington" number for 2018 was apparently 41 according to Veloviewer i.e. I did 41 rides of 41 miles. My mean average was ~11 miles, heavily skewed by my short work commutes and sub 60min turbo workouts.================
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bonk king wrote:Not everyone's fitness will be the same and not all our goals will be the same. You do what you're comfortable with, it's not a competition. Most of my rides are around the 50-80km mark though I have done a few centuries too. A century represents about 4 hours in the saddle for me and to be honest 4 hours is enough.
I do long and hard rides. But I'm retired and have been riding over 40 years. As our friend here says - ride to whatever length or time you like. It is your life and not that of someone whose life is involved with things like Strava.0 -
I read recently that the average recreational cyclist rides 10 hours a week. Let's say you average 17mph on your rides. Riding once a day 5/6 days a week means your average ride should be between 28.3 and 34 miles long.0
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I would be surprised if the average recreational rider rode 10 hours a week.0
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wavefront wrote:I read recently that the average recreational cyclist rides 10 hours a week. Let's say you average 17mph on your rides. Riding once a day 5/6 days a week means your average ride should be between 28.3 and 34 miles long.
Without doing a countrywide poll of all cyclists how the hell can someone come up with a figure of 10 hours to be the average weekly time we spend in the saddle. Anyone been invited to join in such a poll recently by any chance?0 -
How tall should you be, at that speed?wavefront wrote:I read recently that the average recreational cyclist rides 10 hours a week. Let's say you average 17mph on your rides. Riding once a day 5/6 days a week means your average ride should be between 28.3 and 34 miles long.0 -
wavefront wrote:I read recently that the average recreational cyclist rides 10 hours a week. Let's say you average 17mph on your rides. Riding once a day 5/6 days a week means your average ride should be between 28.3 and 34 miles long.
That sounds incredibly unlikely to me. Maybe the average racing cyclist ?0 -
Short or long distance, it depends how you look at it, I think.
How come your rides are averaging 19miles? What's stopping your distance to be shorter or longer?
Longer rides are useful if you're training for longer distance events (obviously...), but not particularly any more benecifical than shorter rides if that's not your riding goals.
Some will argue that doing 30-40miles at pace of 10mph for 3-4hrs is "junk mile" as it doesn't have any physiological benefit to training effect. Though, it still might be beneficial from social and mental health point of view (3-4hrs of socialising, being outside, etc.)
So it depends how you look at whether your distance is "short" or "long"
Bottom line is... enjoy your ride.0 -
cougie wrote:wavefront wrote:I read recently that the average recreational cyclist rides 10 hours a week. Let's say you average 17mph on your rides. Riding once a day 5/6 days a week means your average ride should be between 28.3 and 34 miles long.
That sounds incredibly unlikely to me. Maybe the average racing cyclist ?
That's what I thought!0 -
Matthewfalle wrote:less than 3 hours doesn't count as a ride.
intervals etc that are shorter don't count - they are just intervals, hill repeats, etc.
for a ride it has to be 60+ miles to count as a ride.
anything less is playing.
60 miles, do you have to get back for something? why not make it another hour and get a century in?
All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....0 -
I actually get more of a buzz from 30-50 mile rides hammering it as hard as possible than from longer rides where pacing and fuelling become more important. During the summer I do most of my rides on weekday evenings after work and those are usually about 35-40 miles. I'll generally do longer rides at the weekend, but to be honest if I'm riding on my own I get a bit bored after 60 or 70 miles.. ;-)
I'll often try to do one or two 100 mile+ rides in the spring as it seems to be good for fitness at that time of year. In general though I'm always suprised how fitness gained from intense, shortish rides translates pretty well into longer ride fitness. I never seem to have a problem doing big sportive type events without any specific training, as long as I've been doing regular 40-ish mile rides at a high intensity.
A lot of cyclists gravitate towards longer, slower rides as they get older but I'm not sure that this is necessarily the best thing from a health & fitness PoV. Very long endurance rides put a lot of metabolic stress on the body.
It's interesting to make comparisons with runners. The vast majority of keen runners do most of their runs for durations of two hours or less (often much less). Even for a fit cyclist that's rarely going to be more than 45 miles. You get people who do marathons etc but even they don't regularly *train* by running those distances.0
