I consider myself to be a "Keen" cyclist, I have a full sus mtb for off road and a nice carbon road bike for road. I tend to ride off road for fun and on road for fitness (and time) but I think on average I get out on my bike about 3 to 4 hours a week, sometimes a little more and sometimes less. Again I am reasonably fit for an old'un (50 this year) but am I "average" or well below or (not likely) above what most of us here do? I know some talk about hundereds of miles a week and all, but I am fairly sure they are the extreme end of the spectrum. Just wondering??
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How much/often do you ride? really? honest?
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commute 2-4 days a week - knee pain dependent (so thats about 2 hours)
At least 3 hours of MTB a week.. mostly weekends.
Does Spinning count
In the summer however I often go out one night a week - and sometimes twice on the weekend - However I am married so have to think about her sometimes
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hmmm. 1 big (club) ride per week. 9am-3pm (ish)- typically 70mi. (sunday)
2 evening 'training' sessions of 35 mi each (ish) 2hrs or so.
(tues and thur)poss night ride with pals (wed or fri)
at least one track session at bolehills anywhere from 2-4hrs...
i normally run out of days! normally take mondays off to recover from sunday..
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I'll have a go at this
Road bike - Probably about 4 times per week
Mountain bike - Once per week, but should be doing a bit more now the whether is good
BMX - Once in the last monthPosted 2 years ago # -
Due to injury and surgery I only got back on abike this weekend after 7 months out the saddle. So I averaged none.
Normally in winter I guess I only get out every other weekend doing 2-3hours a time. Once winter is out the way then I'm out saturday and snday each weekend and once I twice during the week. The time varies alot though as I DH and 4x mostly, so there is alot of uplift time and pushing up hills. I reckon I average 3-4hours a week in the saddle at most, I say saddle I mean stood on the pedals.
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I rode downhill on sunday, most of the time was spent pushing up, probably about 30minutes riding
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Usually 2 MTB rides of 2.5hrs+ per week, plus commuting if I can be arrised
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The usual aim (if I'm lucky with work) =
Two evening rides of about 1-1.5 hours
Four to five hours XC on Saturday
Day pushing to the top on SundayUsually about 30-40 miles with around 2000 meters of climbing (ish) over the week
I've love to get out in the week more though.....and to have more time to run/do weights/sleep/eat
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I do a weekly night ride of around 2.5 hours, a weekend ride of 2 -3 hours.
I used to do 1.5 hours commuting 5 days a week but am now self-employed and working from home (well currently NOT working as I'm reading forums :-))so I occasionally get 1 x 1 hour ride in but only every other week or so.
I never thought I'd miss commuting!
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Been out about twice in the last 6-7 months
I rode downhill on sunday, most of the time was spent pushing up, probably about 30minutes riding
Whereabouts do you ride DH? I noticed you are in the Lakes?
Would like to get into DH more and overcome my wussiness.
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3 times this year not including commuting
new uni course has destroyed any free time, i was prob riding once or twice a week when lived in madrid
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Whereabouts do you ride DH? I noticed you are in the Lakes?
I went to hamsterley, but theres a few tracks in the lakes, i just dont really ride much dh anymore/at the moment.
Hamsterley is a good place to go though, the top section was really good on sunday.
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This time of year
Tues, Wed, Thurs for at least a couple of hours & 4 hrs [ish] Sat & Sun
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Once a week, about 15 miles, twice if I can really get organized to free up the time... Then occasionally a big ride, or a race, maybe 2 big rides a year 100k offroad sportives, and maybe 3-6 shortish races.
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Lots of things have kept me off the bike this year until the last couple of weeks. At the moemnt I average one ride per week of about 1.5/2hours. Don't usually go flat out on those rides either so distance/height is quite low! Did Hamsterly black on Sunday and it killed me!
Aiming to up it now the longer eveings are here with Tuesday & Thursday Evening rides after work for 1 hour and keep up one weekend ride for about 2 hours.
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OIver winter I was doing around 6 hours a week usually one evo and a weekend ride.
Since the clocks went forward, 1.5 hours three evenings a week and a half day ride on Sat or Sunday.
Getting to the point where missing a session pisses me off.
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Most days I ride a bike to run errands around town. Once or twice a week I ride for 3 - 6 hrs. Occasional long runs.
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Ride my mtb an average of around 20 miles on a Tuesday evening group ride & 35 miles with a couple of mates on a Sunday.
The evening rides are within BST, however the Sundays are about 48 out of 52 weeks!Posted 2 years ago # -
Being self under employed I usually do 2-4 midweek rides of about 1-2hrs each, depending on how much work I haven't got - they're usually non stop but not exactly what any of you would call race pace so anything from 8 to 15 miles each. Plus another 2.5-3 hrs ride with MrsP about 3 weekends out of 4, but that's usually got plenty of stops.
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I ride something somewhere just about everyday
commuting/shops/just getting around (Self imposed Car free state)
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2 or 3 2.5-4Hour off road Rides a week (probably only 1-2 during winter)
a monthly overnight bivy ride 40+Miles (last 6 months without a break anyway)
occasional MTB and adventure races and longer day rides e.g. Southdowns way
and occasional weekend trips trail centres, Brecons, Exmoor, Lakes..Posted 2 years ago # -
Commute 5 days a week during term time, which is 5 miles a day. That seems to be enough to keep my ticking over so that when I do get out for a proper ride, I can do a decent distance.
Sunday's proper ride was 25 miles on the road, group ride at Hamsterley of 16 miles and then 25 miles home again.
(Seems to be a lot here who were at Hamsterley on Sunday - I was on the white SS Inbred)
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commute every single day...
2 away rides a month and 2 family rides a month.Posted 2 years ago # -
Most days, even if it's just to the shops - just love to get out. Don't put loads of miles in but easily make up for that with the fun factor. I work 4 days - only a short commute but I usually take the local woods route home and probably do a couple of longer rides each week too . . . only 3-4 hours each at the very most (usually shorter), but for me it's all about having fun, not getting the miles in.
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Preety much everyday in the good weather. Been riding my bmx alot recently, but out on the MTV tonight
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Used to be every weekend off road and a daily cross-London commute. Now (with 9 month old daughter) one ride every 3 weeks if I'm lucky...
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Two evening rides of about 1-1.5 hours
Four to five hours XC on Saturday
Day pushing to the top on SundayUsually about 30-40 miles
Really? You must stand around chatting more than riding!?
I usually commute in 2-3 days a week, 1hr each way, 3-4 hours one day at the weekend, 2 half hour runs, one long run, and two swim sessions. So what's that... 8-10hrs/week on the bike usually. It's all about making the most of the time you have if you want to get quicker, of the rides I do, none of them are just 'rides', take the hilly route into work, throw some intervals in on the way home, training takes care of itself really!
When I was just doing cycling I was commuting in 3-4 days and riding both days at the weekend, I quite enjoy the triathlon training, mixes it up a bit!
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Depends on work-the joys of self employment, at the moment I'm lucky to get out once a week on the bike as training for a marathon & working every weekend. Hopefully should be have more time soon, then it'll be road bike couple of times a week, one evening mtb ride & a decent daylight mtb ride 4hours ish.
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Just don't
last year, with the Etape looming, I was riding 12-14 hours a week. This years been rubbish and I'm down at around 5-6 hours or less.Note to self - must ride more...
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I rode my bike once last year, and I'll go out again this year.
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Just started commuting so 35miles a day, and then long rides on most Sundays, and on Sat tea time, I am for 10 Laps of the red trail at Delamere on the CX so thats another 30miles.
I'm aiming to enjoy the summer, and no longer be #18stoneofidiot
Possible redundancy may mean I get more chance to train.
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65-85miles per week. mixture of riding to work & back, shopping, social and a bit of cross country. dunno how many hours riding it adds up to, never bother to count. 20 odd mile cross country route usually takes a couple of hours.
Kev
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I can't commute so that's out.
Two core rides a week all year which are 2.5hours MTB night ride and 3-5 hours Sunday road ride or all dayer MTB/cross ride. All of which are at 'training pace'.
With the lighter evenings I add an extra 2 hour midweek road ride and 2-3 hours Saturday off road.
Last week though I clocked just under 500K of training.
I then ease off again when the road racing starts.Posted 2 years ago # -
Just shy of 200 miles last week of which 70 ish off road, but that was a good week where I had plenty of time. Usually I average 50 to 100 (sometimes more) a week in the summer months, about half that in the winter.
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Now state how many children you have in your answer.
I suspect we may see a correlation
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4 days of the week I ride 18miles to & from work.
Weekends recently has been MTB on one day and road (between 50 & 80miles) the next.
SO loads really, but not as much off road as I'd like
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