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just out of curiosity, what is your highest yearly mileage ?
not that it means anything, but some people like to have something to aim for,
a challenge to yourself.
Pretty poor this year following my broken pelvis - might get to 1,500 miles. Tend to do around 3,500 miles.
A few years ago, when I was still commuting by bike too, I clocked somewhere over 12,000 km. It was all on Endomondo before that died and I started using Strava. Typically, it's now somewhere around 8,000 and I'll likely make it to 9,000 km this year BUT that's for all activities, including running, walking and paddling. Obviously, these are slower/more time consuming per km than cycling and I've been clocking up a fair bit of running time this past 3-4 years. I record it all on an app called VeloViewer so I can compare annual totals and I'll usually pop up those up in a similar thread at the end of the year, but here's what I have to date.
My ex GF was maintaining 200 miles (almost all on road) during COVID lockdown, she was furloughed for bloody ages mind! She doesn't manage quite so much these days, but still over 100 miles per week average.
I got chatting to a bloke a while back who was looking at a road bike I was selling... He commuted 40 miles EACH WAY to work and back every day on bike, 4 days a week (one day WFH) and then typically got at least one good ride if not two in every weekend too! He said he hadn't done less than 20k miles on a bike each year for many years!!! 🤯
I think my best year was about 3k miles, mix of on road and off, when I was riding 2-3 times a week most weeks.
Normally around 4.5-5,000 km/year but I've just checked and i've been slack this year and probably won't get past 4k.
Will be returning to commuting next year (54km return twice a week) so should get it back up.
3881 miles (6246km to make it sound more impressive) so far this year, a very poor 54 miles per week avg
I got chatting to a bloke a while back who was looking at a road bike I was selling... He commuted 40 miles EACH WAY to work and back every day on bike, 4 days a week (one day WFH) and then typically got at least one good ride if not two in every weekend too!
I started doing 32 miles each way this year (due to a change of job). It's only 1 or 2 days a week usually, although I have done 3 on a couple of occasions. In summer I was sometimes extending the ride home up to 40 or so miles. It's been a great way of doing steady "free" miles though, done 3000 miles just from that. Although it is on an e-bike...
I can normally get to around 6000 miles a year these days although I know that figure will be dwarfed by some on here. Done 10,000 a couple of times (many years ago when I was racing) but that sort of mileage really does demand properly structured plans.
A few years ago I was riding in the Richmond Park area with a friend and a guy on an S-Works passed us going the other way. My mate got very excited saying "oh it's...it's him...it's that guy, you know, the big Strava guy!"
No I didn't know...
Turned out it was some local guy who'd featured in some article about "big mile riders" and all he did, almost every day, was go out locally and go around the park, along to a bridge, turn back, around the park, out to some other bridge, turn back... Basically he never went more than about 25 miles from home in any direction but he just did that all day every day, 100+ miles most days but never actually going anywhere. Insane.
I wonder what Lachlan Morton's annual mileage is?! 😜
I got chatting to a bloke a while back who was looking at a road bike I was selling... He commuted 40 miles EACH WAY to work and back every day on bike, 4 days a week (one day WFH) and then typically got at least one good ride if not two in every weekend too!
I started doing 32 miles each way this year (due to a change of job). It's only 1 or 2 days a week usually, although I have done 3 on a couple of occasions. In summer I was sometimes extending the ride home up to 40 or so miles. It's been a great way of doing steady "free" miles though, done 3000 miles just from that. Although it is on an e-bike...
I can normally get to around 6000 miles a year these days although I know that figure will be dwarfed by some on here. Done 10,000 a couple of times (many years ago when I was racing) but that sort of mileage really does demand properly structured plans.
A few years ago I was riding in the Richmond Park area with a friend and a guy on an S-Works passed us going the other way. My mate got very excited saying "oh it's...it's him...it's that guy, you know, the big Strava guy!"
No I didn't know...Turned out it was some local guy who'd featured in some article about "big mile riders" and all he did, almost every day, was go out locally and go around the park, along to a bridge, turn back, around the park, out to some other bridge, turn back... Basically he never went more than about 25 miles from home in any direction but he just did that all day every day, 100+ miles most days but never actually going anywhere. Insane.
I wonder what Lachlan Morton's annual mileage is?! 😜
quite a lot … and he’s go a whole month left to go. 
I cracked 12000km one year - probably about 2017. Broke the target between Christmas and New Year. That was 95% road.
I managed 2000km last winter on the turbo, but I think I maxed my normal cycling at about 2500-3000km when I was commuting in town.
The wird thing is that, since I started working from home, it's actually difficult for me to get out for more than 30 minutes at a go during the day and weather uncertainty in spring and autumn means good cycling days are really limited.
I think I maxed my normal cycling at about 2500-3000km when I was commuting in town.
The key to big miles is actually not massive epic rides (although they help!), it's just riding every day. The guy who runs my LBS cycles to and from work 5 days a week. He's only a couple of miles away but he extends his commute to do about 8-10 miles each way unless the weather is really crap. He always ends up with 1500 - 2000 miles a year more than me cos he's just so consistent. He rarely does any individual ride of more than 100km (on his days off) but he always ends up with 1500 - 2000 miles a year more than me cos he's just so consistent.
During the first lockdown, May 2020, I was able to do loads of riding. Although I was WFH, it was really only half my job (the other half was work that could only be done in person in the office so my workload was fairly light!). Although the rides were never more than a couple of hours, I was doing that every day.
The weather was great, roads were deserted and it was one of my highest ever monthly mileages!
I've hit my aims of 12 Everests (one a month) and a weekly average >100km. No indoor cycling or ebikes, they don't count even if you think they do. It would've been nice to pass the 6000km mark this year but I'm not quite going to make it. I used to crank out more miles but I'm focussed more on quality than quantity these days; replacing the road bike with a monstercross five years ago (so I could avoid motorists) was a very good decision.
No idea personally as I don't really keep track but a mate did just over 10,000 miles (road, gravel and mtb) a few years ago (no commuting either), he said he wouldn't be doing it again
“No indoor cycling or ebikes”
No road bikes, because they don’t count! 😉
They count, they're just no fun.
I always aim for 5000 miles. I'm currently just shy of 3000 for this year. Which is a bit low even for me.
Closest I ever got was 4968. It snowed over Christmas and I put my spiked tyres on to commute to the office in the days between Christmas and New Year so I could finally hit 5k.
Managed to put my back out on Boxing Day sledging with the kids.
I reckon I'll have done about 7000m+ by the end of the year. A big chunk of that will have been riding home from Talliin, but I do try to keep up a running total of 100+ miles a week. About 500,000ft of climbing this year. Most of Eastern Europe was completely flat so there wasn't much elevation gain to be had there. Next year I'm riding home from Athens via Macedonia, Montenegro, the Balkans and the length of the Alps so it'll be a lot, lot more!
It's been a shit year for me this year due to niggling injuries and a bout of covid that knocked me about.
I go on height gain not distance as I'm only really interested in how much descent I can get in.
This time last year i was on a rolling 12 months of 212.000 Meters.
This year a very disappointing 167.000 Metres but expecting to finish at around 180.000 as December currently stands at zero.
All offroad and the majority on a long travel coil sprung Enduro bike.
I set myself a goal of averaging 100 miles per week for the year, this year. So a total of 5200 miles. I'll be on 5000 miles tomorrow morning so stand a good chance of achieving it (kiss of death right there). Not too bad for a 63 year old cancer victim who had a mini stroke last year. My highest was about 6500 miles back in the days when I was keen. And fit.
Road and gravel for me these days, zero MTB action. I'll hit 10k miles and usually manage between 8k to 10k miles dependant on incidents and accidents...
Highest was as a teenager. Morning and evening paper rounds plus road and mtb cycling I was on about 5000miles. I’ve not done that much road riding this year so only on 1200miles
Barely hitting 800 miles this year but thats a small amount of gravel and weekly/fortnightly up and down off-pistey type riding so no big 40 mile XC epics etc.
Play football with a fella who is 70 next year and he's 80 miles off hitting 10000 miles this year on his road bike.
I seem to average about 100miles of actual riding (mostly gravel/XC and road) each week, goes upto 150 in summer and drops to 80 in winter. and then commute on top of that. So in theory that's about 8,000miles. In reality motivation and inconsistency takes a big chunk out of that so I doubt it's ever been over 6,000, this year will be about 5,000 though which I'm fairly pleased with.
3881 miles (6246km to make it sound more impressive) so far this year, a very poor 54 miles per week avg
Methinks you need a new calculator on this cyber Monday...that looks like 74 miles a week rather than 54....
You guys are amateurs... https://ultracycling.com/highest-annual-mileage-hamr/
Peak was about 22000km when i managed to blag a job near my team for the winter (instead of going back to the UK to earn some cash). So a full road season, then the winter riding with the team club and doing an almost full CX season.
Peak MTB was about 4500-5000 km, with another 8-9000 on the road.
They count, they're just no fun.The MTB stopped being fun about 3000 in...
Edit:- i could possibly find my old notebooks for that era and check... 🤔
I've done a little bit more elevation than @scotroutes with 102 km but less than half the distance 3,800 km. Guess he must live in the flatlands!
About 3300 miles on the bike, 3800 miles for all activities (not in the same year).
Just over 15,000 miles a few years ago when I was unemployed for most of the summer. Biggest running year was around 1,700 miles (different year)
Recently very poor, two years of long covid and then just starting to get over it this year and broke my arm and so did very little all summer.
That's real miles. I don't count turbo sessions and don't own an ebike (although did borrow one when my covid was really bad just so I could do something)
3000 this year and I m only in UK 8 months so more than happy. Car does 2500 so target to cycle more than drive achieved.
Car does 2500 so target to cycle more than drive achieved.
That's a good challenge!
My car does around 4000-5000 so it would be pretty doable if it wasn't for this damned Long Covid.
As it is, I probably do 500-600miles a year, and that's on an ebike.
I aim for about 100km a week and have been hitting that and more this year so it will be over 5000km by the end of the year. This is normal for me, been getting 5000+km for more than 30 years now. All on my emtb for the first time this year, I sold all my bikes now I am 70
2250km logged on Strava so far this year, but I never record me commutes which would approximately double that.
When I have brief bout of interest in this kind of thing, I use Elevate App which queries Strava and allow you to compare Year-To-Date milages across various sports, among other things
I've already ridden more this year than last year for instance, but I'm way down on years preceeding that. Looks like my highest total was 2019's 5128km. Atthat point I was cyce commuting 10k each way 3 or 4 times a week.
2020 was the big one in terms of elevation, we were just doing local loops in lockdownwith a few hundred metres of climbing per ride
From 2006 to 2020 I was doing around 6500 miles a year, target was 6000 and always beat it. I was doing a 20 mile each way commute on the bike year round though.
I do a much more modest 3.5k to 4k miles a year now and feel much better for it. I’m quicker now than I was when I was battering myself daily.
i beat the car mileage every year and always have done, we do about 30 miles per week.
5600 miles to present on my strava so will beat 6000 miles i think.
going to try and do 10000 miles next year to celebrate a big birthday.
i beat the car mileage every year and always have done, we do about 30 miles per week.
Yeah, I easily exceed car/van mileage these days too.
I used to do 12000 miles a year when I was a pure roadie. It’s not so easy now that most of my riding is off road. I reckon I’ll be lucky if I hit 9500 miles this year. Elevation for the year so far is 164,000 odd metres.
Looking at the figures it’s not surprising that July is my best month for distance then it’s a gradual decline through to winter. 1000 miles in July 400 in January. I don’t count stationary/imaginary mileage on the turbo. Turbo miles should go in as a negative figure as it sucks on your soul 🤪
This year I am on 4770 and struggling to find the motivation to ride the last 230 to get to 5000. No idea what my highest year was but it would have been over 10k miles when I was much younger, fitter and foolish.
I averaged about 8000 miles a year from 2013-23 with over 10,000 2013-16. Gone down a lot over the last two years due to various health injury issues.
Since I don’t road bike, I tend to focus on metres climbed. I’ve really no idea how many kms. I tend to climb around 40,000m per year. Now, with an e-bike, it tends to be 70-80k.
5100km YTD, mostly MTB. I have climbed 113,000m though, so far. I'm targetting 10,000Km and 50 munros for next year, as I'll be almost retired.
Older brother is in the 300,000 mile club, so anything I do would pale into insignificance.
I have set 5000 miles riding as a tgt on strava the last few years and never quite made it but not that far off i am never too worried about it and just ride to enjoy it. Mtb rides do mean i miss the target bit who cares?
My best year was 15000 followed by 12000 mainly road due to not owning a car.
In the days of terrible lights, the wrong kit and long 10hr shifts!
Pretty much felt like i lived on the streets!
What even is a mile and why do virtual miles on Zwift count the same as really miles because they are in no way similar and most importantly who gives a toss how far you ride anyway?