I had an idea…
I don’t know if this is a bit naff maybe but hear me out.

How about each of us taking part keep a little monthly log, just a word doc’ or whatever just a short paragraph summarising each month as it goes by, getting down the main challenges, what you might be having to work miles in around, any useful tricks/tips and how you feel you are getting on as you try to clock up the miles each month, brief is probably better.

When the Endomondo challenge closes on Dec 31st, the top ten placing riders, could submit those monthly summaries to ST to be turned into a brief piece on the differing approaches people took to this challenge or just training in general.

Any thoughts?

I managed 372 in January according to Strava but only 110 of that was out and about on the bike, the rest was indoor on either turbo or rollers.

February should see some bigger rides going on….hopefully.

I’m needing to average 511 miles a month for the rest of the year now to get to the 500/month average!

Ton – give your legs a few days to recover – with just a few easy leg spinning rides. Don’t know what your mileage was before but you got to build it up gradually – you can’t expect to go from zero to full tilt in a really short time frame. All of it is really common sense and I’m sure I am not telling you something you don’t already know.
As for recovery – no need to spend on expensive recovery drinks just make sure you eat/drink something as soon as you can after a hard ride. Peanut butter and strawberry jam on brown bread/toast is my usual snack after I get back from a long ride – good mix of carbs, fat and protein all in one. Chocolate milk from the supermarket is one of the best recovery drinks if you feel you do need to have a “recovery drink”.

I’m struggling again, mainly through work at the moment. Constant off site commitments mean no cycle-commuting 🙁 Hopefully things will pick up shortly.

180 miles so far in Feb.

Wimped out last Sunday and went for a walk instead.

Going to be tough to hit 500 this month.

Feb definitely a no hoper for me, weather soo bad here I can’t stay upright on the roads, managed a couple of 20mile runs but then canned them and came home because it was getting dangerous being blown all over the roads with cars not giving me enough ‘gust room’ and all the local forests are either closed off or having so many trees down it’s dangerous, add to that I’m being sent to London for a week long training course I’m going be having serious bike withdrawal symptoms soon!

140 miles so far for Feb, had everything gone to plan I’d have clocked ~200 so far, but ill children, wives, a customer meeting on site that canceled my commute yesterday and being a bit too tired to do more night rides/evening Velodrome trips have seen that off…

I have been out more on the SS though so not all of my miles have been Roadie ones, but I’d say the effort for these (especially with the mud about is a good 30% more)

a Ride home, plus a few miles this weekend and I’ll have finally gotten to 500 miles since Jan 1st, that means, Great! But that just means I’m already half a month behind the goal…

All of this means more work to do later in the year, I might just force down a big Dose of MTFU next week and try to clock a couple of 50 mile days irrespective of the weather, but I still reckon I’ll be ‘#250 – 300 miles off target by the end of Febs…

No Ton – 34 miles at SQT last night and 36m in a Sunday morning session

The logs are on endomondo…
http://www.endomondo.com/challenges/13712660

and while someone has ridden halfway around the world, just about, some of us have barely got out the door.

Please – I’m only 5.7% of my way round the world 😉

Nice going Ton!

I haven’t even logged my mileage this month – partly due to the laptop with my spreadsheet on it dying a death. But I know I’m nowhere close to 500 miles.

Will start again in March. 🙂

Haven’t been doing this but chucked myself into this challenge only been commuting since the start of the year. So only 125 miles total so far. But be interesting to see if I can get myself up this table over the year! No danger I’ll be getting anywhere close to 500 miles a month mind you! I’ll aim for a 200 mile month in march then up from there. Will do the challenge properly next year!

I’m last on page 3 I’ll make last on page 2 the challenge! 😆

Jan = 15 miles
Feb = 0 miles
Totally lost mojo with weather

Mojo return is imminent as the start of a 3 month trip around Spain and France is not far away.
A modicum of fitness has been retained with plenty of walking/jogging and even slow running.

Last couple of years, since being on Strava/Endomondo and logging my rides, it’s done roughly 2500 a year.

Would like to get that up to 3650 – ten miles a day. Can’t be that hard, can it?!

The trouble with working from home is, if you CBA, if it’s wet, windy and horrible, you don’t bother going out.

When I HAD to commute to work and the bike was the only way to get there, I would have clocked up the miles without thinking.

Going to have to go for it today and tomorrow to get the first two months of this year up and over a 100 mile a month average. 😕

I should just about sneak 1000km YTD by the end of this month. Lower than I want, but considering the weather, and work situation currently, I’m quite pleased with that.

If things improve, and I can start working in a different office, I can ride in a few days a week, and get some decent evening and weekend riding back under my belt.

I have had a huge hissy fit about riding in howling winds, and sideways rain over the last few months, so chances to get out have been somewhat limited…