[Closed] So how many miles did you rack up in 2009?

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Thats 20 mile short of the 50 mile daily target to beat last years total! What was the event you were training for?

today i have been at work and you have helped me pass the time very well. its been fun at 49 quid a hour 😆

Dasha - the ride I'm training for is in September this year. LEJOG in as short a time as possible.

He is quite simply bulls hitting.

How can he possibly have spent so long cycling when he's clearly on here talking cobblers every waking hour. Those hours when he isn't taking cobblers, he's thinking of another stupid name for himself, to enable him to be taken seriously for another 30 seconds before he starts being an arris again...

LEJOG in as short a time as possible.

Surely 4 hours should have it covered by a rider of your, ahem, calibre...

You'll do it in a couple of days no problem.

Dasha - that's the kind of ballpark we're looking at.

Well that would appear to have killed that one stone dead... 🙄

You'll piss it, 1100 miles 48hrs thats only 23mph.

it's 850 miles.

Funny Goan.

3,850 miles on the Garmin, plus 25 or so 25 mile xc races, plus 2 24s, E6 and D2D and a few rides I forgot the Garmin on...

Probably about 5,000 total.

GB

Just noticed on another thread that the 'poster' lives in Walkerburn...

Jesus that is one miserable hole - no wonder he's never there!

what a quim. that is all.

Tonight Mathew i'am going to be-Bert from the Muppets!

As food for thought a full time pro cyclist will cover in the region of 20000 to 25000 miles per year training and racing.

I think his miles are a little shorter than most of ours. Remember he has also driven a million miles in a few years at the ridiculous average that he has - and all without breaking the speedlimits.

Glupton - you do talk some utter tripe and thats another one.

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Milage for me - dunno 🙂 between 2500 and 5000 at a guess - few weeks of less than 50 miles but few of more than 100

Only 18mph then, none stop for 48hrs. Who sponsors you, you're obviously an extremely talented athlete, has Mr Brailsford been in touch!? 😯

2600 on the bike and less than a 1000 with the car.

Dasha - to answer your question about sponsorship - Adidas.

Prob somewhere between 4k-5k, some of which has been ridden with the artist formerly known as Glupton 😉

Judging by this thread plus previous posts on the mileage you drive I'm assuming you have some kind of condition that multiplies everything by 10.

So, I guess you'll be telling us next its 30 inches 😆

Excellent. What races did you do for them last year. Do you ride in a team. Where is your homepage

Dasha - none. THere are various types of sponsorship. No and I don't have a homepage. Having family in very high places in a company has great benefits.

when i was a student i did about 10k a year ...

this year ive done about 5-6k through injury and giardia.

some with glupton though - 300km in 13 hours with 4000m climbing and 200k in 8.5

6502 miles on the garmin, must have had the "summer" off, thats 1500 down on the previous year!

surrounded by idiots you are starting to appear to be the new kaesae! all you need is a great line in rodent based insults and you are sorted. 😀

but seriously don't listen to the naysayers, I say good on ya and well done you're very special.

Thats seems like a real waste of talent, can't you get these highly placed company people at (presumably Adidas) to create a team built around you, it could be called "Team Mendacity"

Prob about 3500 miles & something like 300,000 ft of vertical. I cant compete with the OP 🙁

I'm not sure what I did this year - less then previous years no doubt, but I went about 6 months without a cycle computer so can't really estimate. Lost a bit of weight due to becoming more or less veggie and doing more running though.

Goan - with that sort of mileage in the legs you and your partner really should have beaten me and stuatie_c at 10 More in Moray and grabbed the glory of 4th spot..... 😆

S_F - that sort of mileage makes a diesel engine - at moray i needed a turbo petrol.

Hat's off, fella. Pretty sure Pro's don't notch up those kinda distances or speeds. Or even need to. You are clearly self-employed with no family commitments.

8,648 road-miles for me this year. And that doesn't include racing or anything off-road. Can't imagine where I could have fitted in more cycling without giving up my job or suddenly becoming single.

Chapeau.

Funny, I was reading this thread earlier thinking how well the OP would get on with Glupton. D'oh.

TM - was self employed then went to studentdom - wife and two kids. couple of hours a night once the kids go to bed isnt difficult.

Good answer Goan!

I do enjoy your threads 😀

This year, something like 8-9000, riding 3-4 times a week (usually- sometimes more) with some races. Almost exclusively MTB, though, bar a 400 mile tour in the summer and about 15 road rides.

Actually, I'm just gonna have to pick you up on a couple of things:

100 miles a day at the weekend and 40 miles/night - its not that much really.

Yes. Yes it is. Unless, as I say you are self-employed with no family commitments. And maybe no interests outside of cycling. And a very leathery perineum.

40 odd miles on the roadie is about 90-120mins at most.

Erm... you must live somewhere pan-flat. However fit I've been this year, I think I managed to break the av.20mph on solo rides (when not racing or time-trialing) on only a handful of occasions. Fastest ride of the year was a 60miler in March @ 20.9mph with two other guys. And TBH I dawdled home for the last 5miles cos I was ****ed. Are you seriously riding everywhere at time-trial pace??

As someone else pointed out:

26.7mph is still impressive in a group in my opinion.

Seriously, buddy, before you come waving your willy at all the beer-belly bikers* on here, be prepared for a little backlash.

(* no offence, You know who you are 😉 )

And a very leathery perineum

TM - It's hilly, but on average the rides are flat. I probably do ride the shorter rides at TT pace - why not? And as I pointed out 40 mile rides were in between 90-120 mins depending on tailwinds and groups etc.

I'm not waving my tadger - I was asking how much people did in 2009. I'm a fit boy - big lungs and big heart. VO2 max is through the roof too.

Perineum has a leathery texture to it though.

Keep digging keep digging........this is a great thread, very very funny.

I think his miles are a little shorter than most of ours. Remember he has also driven a million miles in a few years at the ridiculous average that he has - and all without breaking the speedlimits.

Glad it's not just me who remembers that the driving God has also racked up a million miles. Do you tow your bike behind you and call those miles cycled too?

It really is a shame you decided not to become an elite MTB racer, sounds like you should be handing Liam Killeen his arse on a plate. Although for someone who can average 26mph (even in a group).

I didn't want to get involved, but njee is right. I don't know of any elite MTBers that ride 18000 miles in a year.

I'll admit that perhaps only a quarter of mine are "quality" training miles. I do like to bike for fun!