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??
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 😉
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..
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 month
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.
I rode downhill on sunday, most of the time was spent pushing up, probably about 30minutes riding
Usually 2 MTB rides of 2.5hrs+ per week, plus commuting if I can be arrised 🙂
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 Sunday
Usually 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
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!
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. 🙂
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
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.
This time of year
Tues, Wed, Thurs for at least a couple of hours & 4 hrs [ish] Sat & Sun
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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..
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)
commute every single day...
2 away rides a month and 2 family rides a month.
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.
Preety much everyday in the good weather. Been riding my bmx alot recently, but out on the MTV tonight
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...
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!
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.
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...
I rode my bike once last year, and I'll go out again this year.
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. 😕 🙁
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
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.
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.
Now state how many children you have in your answer.
I suspect we may see a correlation 🙂
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
In the summer 2 x 2hr evening rides. 4-6hr weekend ride.
In the winter once a week minimum (I’ve failed a few times this winter).
Measured in hours as miles are completely dependant on road / mtb / terrain / weather….
Now state how many children you have in your answer.I suspect we may see a correlation
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4 hours training on road a week
6 hours a week MTB
2 Commuting
Im only 18 so no children and very little commitment.. LOVE IT !
Much more than I used to. I try to get an hour a day in but doesn't always work due to uni timetable/work. At the weekend if I go out on a ride somewhere that'll be 3-4 hours depending where I am. So on average about 7-8 hours a week, not much really.
Currently 2hrs Sunday morning, commute Monday - 40mins each way, 2hr Tuesday nightride, Thursday commute again or another 2hr nightride, all MTB.
And 2 kids BTW.
As a minimum I normally commute 45 minutes a day by bike. Ride Thursday evenings for 3-4 hours and/or then do a 4-5 hour ride one day of the weekend.
Rare that I;ll do less than commute + 4 hours. I like to get in more. Got in 9 hours this weekend on the road as my GF was busy. Will rty and start to get 3 hours on the road one night a week in addition now the clocks have changed.
I'm young, no kids and trying to train for the Kielder 100 so I assume I do more than average. If I was single I'd ride every night of the week probably.
Really really try to get out once in the week but work often doesn't allow. If I do it's for a couple of hours max.
Weekends - usually 3-4 hours on Saturday and an hour or two on Sunday, but last couple of weeknds have been considerably more - yay!
Children - 0. I reckon it's just as - if not more - correlated to full-time job!
commute to work every day
couple of quick 10 milers on an evening on the road bike when the nights are light enough
pootle on the road bike on a weekend
offroad probably one day about twice every three weeks
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whenever I can
94.87 miles since 17th March.
I go out for a proper ride for a few hours once a week, and try and get two short rides on a mixture of road and cycle path in during the week to try and get fitter. I really need to motivate myself to go out more than once in a weekend now the weathers getting decent.
Usually about 2-3 hours on a Saturday and Sunday, and about 1-2 hours on a Tuesday or Thursday (both if I have time).
I've done about 3 hours every day for the past 7 days, though. Gotta love being on holiday 😀
Most sundays and thursday nights during the summer nights.
During the winter 1-2times a month, mainly 15-25mile routes.
Commute to work even in rain.
Groceries by bike.
This month is revision so no riding for 2 months.
Turbo training 3x a week in mornings for one hr :O)
Filled my car with fuel 1.5 months ago but do the fortnight big shop at Tesco which I can't do by car as I'm too lazy and rubbish bike facilities.
Summer-car never gets used.
Thursday night-ride 2.5-3.5 hours
Sunday ride 5-6 hours.
All local. I used to travel further afield once or twice a month and I'd like another day in the week, say Tuesday, but with two wee ones its off the radar.
Very seasonally dependant...
During the winter hardly anything, if it's not too icey just the 10 minutes to/from work and if I'm feeling brave occasionally a roadride along the valley or up on the mountain bike in the snow
In the summer commuting each day, after work probably a couple of 1 or 2 hour roadrides and a 2 or 3 hour mountainbike ride, plue at least one longer ride over the weekend.
up till the end of last year, generally one big ride on a weekend of 5 hours or so, and perhaps and evening or smaller weekend ride as well. Now, not much, once every two weeks? Shorter too, 15 miles mtb max, about 35 road max. Soon, not at all for a bit 🙂
between 5-6 hours commuting a week around 100 miles total, maybe bet an hour or 2 over the weekend on either the road or mountain bike, run normally 3x a week with dog for 25 mins and an hour run sunday eve. 1 or 2 shrt swims on the way to work and 1 or hours masters training. Reading that its more than i imagined, it amazes me how i'm so slow at all of them, ah well i enjoy doing it.
10 hours commuting a week, and some more riding at weekends.
Probably averages out to be around 15 or 16 hours/week over a year.
2-3 winter average
3-4 summer average
50 - you're doing well WH!
2 hours MTB at weekend + 1 commute if I can be arsed.
Too many things to do and not enough time.
Commute to work on a road bike 3-4 days a week = now up to 1.5 hours a day after an office move.
Maybe a Thurs night MTB ride = 1-2 hours
Most weekends either a 2-3 hour MTB ride or 2-5 hours on a road bike.
Most weekends, 30 minutes having a gentle pootle with Jnr, aged 6 and really more interested in being with his dad without his younger sister being there rather than the actual riding!
2-3 times per week, all off-road - though have been out 3-times in the last 36-hrs
...3 kids
commute everyday to work which in total is about 2.5hrs a week.
i also try and get one night ride of 2hrs in per week and if i am lucky another 2-3hrs ride at the weekend.
somewhere in the region of about 70 miles off-road per week.
At the moment i'm commuting every day but thats only approx. 3 miles a day in total.
Tuesday nights mtb ride, usually around 20-25 miles.
Thursday i'll do a road ride, approx 20-30 miles.
Saturdays i'll do either a mtb or road ride depending whether anyone is playing out.
Sundays ride with the GF on the mtb's again.
Quite a lot actually!
Did 30 miles on road on Friday, 25 on mtb yesterday, road sportive this weekend coming. Haven't ridden much this year though as new baby has kept me busy.
Per week-6 hours commuting (3days),one 3 hour evening ride,a couple of hours down the bmx track, one 5-6 hour ride and one day doing absolutely **** all.
I've hardly done any MTBing recently. Did Garburn on Tuesday, that was the first ride on my Cove since I rebuilt it (so ages!) and I did a short social/photo/play type ride with NBT on Sunday but that's been it. Couple of rides in the snow was the last time.
It's been all track and road for me recently and not as much of that as I'd have liked. Maybe 2-3hrs track per week and 4 days/week commuting on the SS road bike (35 miles a day) plus a road ride at the weekend, anything from 2 to 4 hrs.