261 miles for me. Its made me realise that 500 is a helluva lot without commuting. But to be honest,I'm quite pleased with my effort, its more than I've done any other January.
Oh and I'm a kilo lighter 😆
So I came in tenth with 355miles.
Started late and had a week off due to back pain.
Feeling good for it though and hoping to get to 500 in Feb and make up the shortfall in a couple of months.
Well done to everyone so far and I agree with Ton, you can't do 1000miles a month a have a full time job. 😯
6th, 562miles all commuting, think I got rained on every ride...
I've done another 100 off-road but I don't bother to record them.
Just good time management + keep chipping away at the mileage is the answer. Lucky I can get my weekday rides in on the way to and from work - getting a couple of hours in a day is easy plus stick a few 3 or 4 hour rides in at the weekend - job done. I am a teacher so I do get the school holidays to stack a few extra miles in :D. Had a full on school inspection the other week - so mileage was down a little for Jan - usually manage 250 or so a week on the road.
465 which is a bit of a surprise. We had three icy Sundays that shortened the usual club run. And cross didn't help, all day Sunday to travel/race/travel and cover about 8 miles on the bike.
Bonus miles came from a midweek night road ride, and a Saturday mixed on/off road ride.
I don't commute, so no miles there. And I can't count Turbo time.
It was also my first ever ever month with a computer/GPS.
Horrendous month for me.
Just loads of issues followed by knackering my finger up by slashing it across the knuckle. More than a week off the bike. Hopefully Feb will be better. Chapeau to those that are ahead of average.
I *just* sneaked in over 500 but only by 2 miles!
All but one ride was either commuting on the roadie SS or track cycling at Manchester Velodrome. Not ridden a geared bike at all this year! The non-commute ride was a 45 mile spin in the Cheshire lanes.
Got wet on almost all the commutes including one horrendous ride how in sleet and slush. SO cold and wet.
Well done everyone who made it, the weather has been dreadful all month. There's no way I'd have come close to the total were it not for the fact that the track is on my doorstep!
18 mile café ride done this morning. daily target of 17.4 miles for feb, so I have 1 mile in the bank already....... 😆
476 as of yesterday. Biggest haul for this early. Will be well into the 5's this week. Enjoying the bike and not just chasing miles which is also good!
476 miles in two days, knickers I thought I'd got off to a good start this month.
Planned rides including an Audax might see me reach the target by the 16th.
No, YTD!
I use Strava
Is it possible to transfer all my miles in January across to edmondo ?
Brack - you can export the rides from Strava as GPX, then import to Emdomondo. I think you'd have to do 1 at once though, don't know if you can bulk export from Strava
Cheers for that Woody...not sure I have the time for that...esp with most of my little rides.
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Brack - you can export the rides from Strava as GPX, then import to Emdomondo. I think you'd have to do 1 at once though, don't know if you can bulk export from Strava
What Brack says - Not been able to find a way to bulk import either - into Endomondo. The single import seems to take forever esp with long rides.
Use Garmin Connect then import to Strava + Endomndo now. Didn't bother importing into Endomondo for 6 months last year - so still have about 5000 miles worth of rides to import, to bring Enomondo up to date.
I use Strava too, I've just been adding them to Endomondo as manual activities, so all I have to do is add the time and distance, it doesn't take that long.
Yes - but you miss out on all the gps data, hr, altitude etc by manual activity. probably just as quick to import the gpx file.
Yes - but you miss out on all the gps data, hr, altitude etc by manual activity
Yes, but...
I use Strava too
Where it has all that stuff for me, I'm only putting things into Endomondo to participate in this challenge with you guys, which means all I need in there is the times and distances and it's a lot quicker than downloading and importing the GPX's cos I'm only using the Strava App on my phone until I can save up for a proper GPS.
59.1 - fail. 🙁 Means I need to average 540 for the rest of the year.
I am looking to top 550 this month, looking to build up to 700 for one of the summer months........well if we get a summer month.. 😆
Managed 402 miles, despite commuting in the rain a couple of times making it harder to shake off a cold.
I'm actually aiming for 5000 miles this year, if I only manage 402 each month it would still be the most I've done in a year
Only 329 miles for January, and then nothing ridden over the weekend, currently showing 15th on the table but that will slip once a few people commute home tonight.
Planning to do ~50 mils tomorrow between commutes and a night ride...
I think 400 miles through Feb is realistic, 500 is achievable and the ~670 to get me back "on target" is probably a serious push TBH, but not completely unachievable, TBH it's all about consistency, and taking the opportunities to get out for a ride whenever I can...
The Best thing about the challenge is its got me using the Endomondo site, I've had an Endomondo accounts for ages but just never used it, pulling *.gpx files off Strava and uploading them to Endomondo has been pretty smooth and I really quite like the way the Endomondo site works and presents your data.
334 road miles for Jan
Also did a few turbo session and one mtb ride that I didn't record
I don't think I've ever managed 500 in a month - even in Summer my rides tend to be short but severe. Still , happy to join in for the craic! ** notices afterwards the age of the thread.
778miles for me from 1 - 31 January, mostly on the road but includes intervals on the turbo/rollers. Was surprised by this as i train to hours not miles so have never paid much attention before but a quick flick through training peaks indicates this is normal mileage for me. More about consistent training than any epic rides though, longest ride was 5.5hours.
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 have done all road miles lately and found 500 in Jan quite easy .A long Sunday ride of 60 mile and a couple of training sessions at Odd Down track totaling 50 miles a week left me just a short ride on another afternoon to hit 500 last month
This Month im on 97 from an Audax on Sunday and a 30 mile ride home from where my van is being fixed .I have to ride back to get it tomorrow ,which is another 30 and will do 50 + on my 50th birthday on Wednesday so that will be 177 in 4 days.
this must be easy for some of you lot.....I can remember when I could go out and bang 50 miles out on a sunday, without much effort.
a big ride to me now is 30 miles, and all my rides are done at 10mph, which is all the ticker will let me get up to without blacking out... 😆
But at least you are getting out there and doing your best rather than sitting on the sofa being sorry for yourself
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!
I am going well for February 175 miles for the month so far not bad for the 5th !
1 mile short of 100 for me so far. but my legs feel like they belong to someone else.
I need some eating advice if I am gonna keep this up. any tips?
Get some recovery drinks Tony. Preferably not golden pippin 😉
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".
advice is always welcome.......unless it is like what wors said....no ale?? that is nearly as bad as no bike....... 😀
I'm struggling again, mainly through work at the moment. Constant off site commitments mean no cycle-commuting 🙁 Hopefully things will pick up shortly.
300 miles so far this month.......going like Le Diesel......chug chug 😆
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.
February's gone to pot.
Bad chest and taking antibiotics for the first time ever in my life, which was quite exciting, was hoping I might trip...but nothing 😐
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!
Yep weather definitely a downer - just best to man up really + get wet! managed to knock out 70 odd miles in the warm and dry of Newport Velodrome in the last week. Was good just wearing summer kit again + not having to worry about potholes 🙂
70 odd miles indoors? not in 1 go I hope........ 😆
thought I'd be last (still)
A nice round 0 km this month so far, but then I have been skiing and walking, and the weather looks pants this weekend. Might just have to go for it.
Only just sneak in to the top 40 if I include skiing km, chairlift km, and a few km of walking.
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...
160 so far for me, which is a lot for a fat unfit porker. I'm pretty pleased with that to be honest.
