Mileage competition.

darrell1967

There was an article in last weeks Cycling Weekly about cycling 5000 miles in 2020.
I put the question and threw down the gauntlet to my little cycling posse (brother, brother in law and 1 friend) but after some deliberation we changed it to the most miles instead.

I ride into central London and back most days. My brother does a ride every other day, brother in law goes in fits and spurts and also does big mtb rides and friend will knock out a 35 miler if he finishes work early or if the sun is shining on a weekend morning so we’ve all got our ways and means of hitting the distance. We are all on Strava.

The 3 losers have to buy the winner a case of lager each and I’ll keep you all posted as and when if you’re interested.

What sort of mileages do people do here??

lincolndave

Hopefully between 5 and 7 k, obviously depending on health , family not so much work has I more or less pick and choose when or if I go

N0bodyOfTheGoat

~4600; 5900; 5200 miles over the last three years, since cycling for fitness.

However, that includes turbo time from Xmas 2017... And there was far too much turbo rather than riding outdoors in 2019.

~323; 411; 358 hours.

~291k; 442k; 407k feet of climbing.

Longshot

1500 last year excluding indoor cycling. Generally one ride per week, no commuting.

joe2019

I no longer use a computer to record anything, so I don't really know, but I ride on average 5 days a week, all outside.

Around 7-8000 miles last year if I was to educate a guess.

cruff

Last four years:
7000
8500
10500
11000

carbonclem

I did just over 9k miles last year, no turbo.

darrell1967

Wow guys, I’m very impressed. I don’t know where you all find the time, is everybody retired or something??

topcattim

N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

~4600; 5900; 5200 miles over the last three years, since cycling for fitness.

However, that includes turbo time from Xmas 2017... .

Ooh, there's a chestnut. Can you count time on the turbo as miles? _{lights touchpaper and retires...}

mrfpb

Last two years were 1800 and a bit miles each, though I had 6 months off Oct- Apr due to injury. Last year was 95% commuting miles. This year I may do 2500 as I'll be commuting all year. I can't imagine doing 100 miles/week all year!

monkimark

I probably do around 4000 miles a year, mostly commuting - it's a 40 mile round trip 2 or 3 times a week so it soon adds up even allowing for a few weeks off here and there due to illness/holidays/laziness.
The non-commuting miles are mostly off-road so distances are a lot less than they would be on the road for the same time/effort.

ibr17xvii

4516 outdoor road miles (no commuting).
2067 Zwift miles

Road miles were down for me last year which was a bit disappointing although I'd put that down to getting a better turbo - & being soft.

davep1

I used to consistently ride 5-6k miles a year but two years ago I broke my shoulder in August which wrecked that year. Then last year my son was working with me so we drove almost every work day and I only commuted on the bike about once a month.
I've set a target of 10k km this year, already nearly 200 km behind. I don't do indoor riding but am lucky enough to live in the South Downs so can commute on and off road.

w00dster

Gone from most years between 8000 and 10,000 miles to 4000 last year. Takes me longer to recover from my training rides now. For instance, today was supposed to be an outdoor ride of approx 45 miles - but my legs feel dead, can't even motivate myself to go on the turbo. My training plan is for 5 rides a week, of which 2 of those are tough - I get a bit carried away on Zwift though and most of my recovery rides end up with me going for it on the Alpe of Epic KoM.

thecycleclinic

All my miles are outdoors mostly road but some mtb.
2016 16000+km strava knows I cant be bothered checking
2017 19600km
2018 19300km
2019 20000km

2020 who knows 850km so far. I'm slacking.