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Dasha - My sister inlaw is a director of Adidas - she gives me free stuff and has to put it through as a sponsorship deal.
I have not said that I can average 27mph for 2hrs - I said that I have done 40 miles in 90 mins in a group with a tail wind.
I have never raced in a sport race either. I race to for the little five minute races that you get within a race. It's not about winning, its about wasting your mates along a stretch of trail.
AndyP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness. Galibier is higher than that and it takes a lot of effort to get to the top of it.
goans not about tonight.
How many hours a week did those 18000 miles consume.
25-30 or thereabouts.
I'd love to know how many miles I did. According to my watch I climbed 71,000m between July and September though.
Maybe 5000 miles at a complete guess and a 100,000m climbing.
p.s. that's impressive, well done. I think I met you along with trail rat and superstar lover.
Let me get this right then - you were doing 'a couple of hours a night midweek', so thats 10 hours and around 15 to 20 hours riding at the weekend? I thought you said your family were important?
So what was this 'something' you were training for?
27mph for 2 hours, mmmm. I can definately smell it now.
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Garmin Connect Says...
Count: 136 Activities
Distance: 3,532.68 mi
Time: 391:46:30 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 122,441 m
Avg Speed: 9.0 mph
Avg HR: 129 bpm
Avg Run Cadence: --
Avg Bike Cadence: 73 rpm
Calories: 309,445 C
Avg Distance: 25.98 mi
Max Distance: 109.67 mi
Avg Time: 02:52:50 h:m:s
Max Speed: 53.7 mph
Max Bike Cadence: 172 rpm
Not sure on the split of Road to Offroad tho!
Oh my god I want one of those. Who's Garmin and how does it connect?
Gary_M - something like that yes. Families don't just exist at weekends...
And I've already said what i'm training for.
Approx 12.6mph at 4hrs a day then. How many days rest did you have?
jcromton- you did a hell of a lot more miles than that. If you'd ridden in the last few months you'd have done a couple of thousand more than me.
You reckon? I've been on a gap year this last few months. Wish I'd put my computer on my guiding bike.
I want one of those Garmin connects! I relish the stats.
Dasha - not many was lucky to not get any injuries or illnesses that kept me off the bike for long. Longest ride in a day was 200miles and the longest week was around 1000 miles.
[i]AndyP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness. Galibier is higher than that and it takes a lot of effort to get to the top of it. [/i]
yes, that's where we got to last time, and again, I know how much effort it takes to get up it thanks. The evidence of 'hundreds of people suffering altitude sickness' for the handful of minutes they're above 2400m on the Marmotte is...where, exactly?
There are people out there that need to do a lot of exercise just to keep their head straight - I'm one of them.
Clearly mate, you need to do more 😉 Keep it up though, it's ****ing bang on.
Got a garmin (with a heart rate monitor) in the shop that you should've got for christmas 😉
Think you've probably done about the same as me, when you started resting I started riding.
[i]And I've already said what i'm training for. [/i]
Indulge me, I don't want to read through the crap.
AndyP - it's all over the side of the road when you're climbing the Galibier.
Gary_M - LEJOG in as little time as possible.
I'm bored now.
you should probably (le) jog on 🙂
About 4500, roughly 50/50 road/off-road. 90% of the off-road were singlespeed.
i think his user name speaks volumes why give this bullshitter the attention he does not deserve make sure mine is the last post!
So you do venture out of the classifieds once in a while then.
due to difference in mph and effort between mountain and road i record training, sorry riding in hours and over the past five years this has been as follows:-
2005 438.75 hours
2006 457.75
2007 418.75
2008 403.75
2009 425.50.
still a bit dodgy as 90 mins in a race is alot more exhausting that a five hour ride with mates that involves stoping to chat, map read and so on. i do try to exclude time spent not peddling but not a science. above is a mix of mtb, road and mtb on road commuting. overall ave of say 14 mph would give 6,000 miles or 115 a week that feels about right. for every trans wales or marmotte (i did both in 2009) there is a week drinking, tired, too much work, awful weather etc).
Just for the record last year I did 3,887.20 Km (2,416 miles) in 211:49:43 hrs with 30,644.20m climbing and an average speed of 18.6 Km/h (10.5 mph)
This is a mix of road, off road (Both single speed & Geared), and the turbo
I’m 49, have wife and too children & work full time – I don’t community and have a full and rounded life outside of cycling. I also suffer with chronic fatigue– so overall I’m quite impressed with that
Me, I just ride my bike 'cos I enjoy it, no record of any miles kept, just let my riding do the talking, mostly when I fall on my arse.
4200miles for me, in 320hours. As with HH45 above, riding is better quantified in hours than miles when you ride more than one discipline.
Just over 5000 for me. What I expected to do but not as much as I wanted. I *wanted* to ride about 18,000.
[url= http://www.mattmagic.com/ ]Matt[/url] nearly did, all well documented, virtually all offroad, hilly and fast.
somewhere around 4000 for me, mixture of commuting and off road.
Kev
1785 miles for me with a mix of off road and road.Along with a big hill around every corner.This is very good for me.I plan on doing even more in 2010.
Some of you guys have done more cycling miles than i have done in my car.Well done.
Agree with Dougal/others that time is a better quantification, but less good for willy waving certainly.
Not totally sure for me, as I didn't have any way of measuring it for a while, but 4524.7 excluding about 2.5 months, they were easy months though, so probably about 5000 for me, plus a hundred or so running, all of which felt harder than any of the riding!
I'm sorry George, you said that your riding takes you "25-30 (hours) or thereabouts".
Right... quick maths lesson for you!
18000 miles, spread equally over 52 weeks is 346 miles/week.
If that took you 25 hours, that's an average of 13.84mph. Now, let's allow for 20% faffing time (surely not when you're training?!), so 20 hours riding/week (which is extremely doable I know), that's an average of 17mph.
Where do the 26mph rides figure in all this, or even the 20mph rides?! And you've STILL not answered me how you find groups that go out after your kids are in bed, in the dark, and knock out 26mph. As for that being with a tail wind, do you just ride point to point!? Surely the vast majority of rides will have equal amounts of head/tail/cross winds!?
Perhaps you do in fact spend 20% of every ride with your cock in your hand waving it to all and sundry. It would explain a number of things...
Or... perhaps you're genuinely deluded.
njee20 - in the time taken to do those sums you coulda done a good few miles toward 2010's total mileage 😉
Already done 4 hours on the MTB this morning, and having ended up on my arse on the ice that was enough! I imagine it'll be a while before I get a response as he's no doubt out doing 800 miles at 59mph, having driving 3200 miles this morning.
Odd fellow.
Just over 1900 miles for me, which is about what I've done each year for the last three years. Nowhere near as much as I'd like, but life, work and family get in the way of riding.
About 5% of my year's total was on one day in September in Kielder forest 🙂
well ' surrounded by idiots' ( GL) - i kinda know how much training he does and would say he would be doing roughly that. 20 hours of cycling a week aint that much. TAke a 2 hour commute a day plus 5 at the weekend then it aint all that. I would guesstimate i've done about 12000 this year.
2 weeks commuting to work at 74 miles round trip, 15 weeks at my previous job commuting to work at 40 miles round trip, 30 weeks commuting to work in new job at 27 miles round trip. Had 1 week in new york, 1 week in malaga, 1 week in Gran Canaria, 2 weeks ill, off the bike. Done plenty off road rides close to or over 100 miles, rode on all my days off on MTB with varying miles and done plenty of night rides after work where per day i could be doing 70 miles ( including commuting) plus kielder 100, merida 135 sat and 60 sun plus pedal for scotland Glasgow to Edinburgh return @ 110 miles.
All in all about 12000k miles, possibly more
4900 miles, roughly 50/50 split on/off road.
so, radoggair, find the time to do half as much again as what you rode and you'd be getting somewhere close to SBI's mileage? That's doing half of what you rode again! Puts his (claimed) mileage into perspective.
**** me! Now everybody's been blown out of the water by radoggair!!!
All in all about 12000k miles, possibly more
12 million miles really is going some! 😐
That's a hell of a lot.
Sadly my only high mileage years were up to 1992, with a weekly commute of 370 miles a week (Leighton buzzard>London) plus Hemel Hempstead club 10 every Tuesday, MK Bowl Crit every Thursday and a road race Sunday about 500 miles a week.
However with months of no racing (off season) holidays etc it only came to 17K
Bloody hell,
I genuinely consider myself a died in the wool, full time cyclist, and can hold my own (not talking willys here) over longish distances, yet I doubt I've topped 2500 miles...
I'd be very single very fast if i tried to double that, let alone octuple it! 😯
Plus, have we not argued average speeds on here before? 😉
So NJee20 - still think I'm telling porkies?
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**** me! Now everybody's been blown out of the water by radoggair!!!
thats willy waving for you!!
naedeyw - Member
so, radoggair, find the time to do half as much again as what you rode and you'd be getting somewhere close to SBI's mileage? That's doing half of what you rode again! Puts his (claimed) mileage into perspective.
Fair enough, firstly mines circa that amount, it prob is more than that TBveryH and o.k. 18k is alot but i wouldn't say it was difficult. This year ( once this bloody snow goes), i hope to be getting up to that amount. Its not about willy waving, but for people like me its about the great feeling i get whilst out on my bike. If i had a huge local group that biked i would easily top 20k. I'm lucky to have a great biking mate who lives nearby and apart from our weekend rides we will prob do alot more night riding this year and apart from that i dont mind doing 100+ miles on my own
I also know that SBI is very lucky to have Glentress and inners on his doorstep and rides with extremely local people so getting out on the bike isn't an issue to himself or others around him. He also does alot of road riding and he's right to say that (even without a tailwind) hitting an average of 26mph in a good cycling group is attainable.
Basically, 18k is alot but lets face it if your willing to put in the time then 350 miles per week isn't difficult at all so instead of being very negative, people like SBI should be applauded for there miles they've covered on their bike. Offsets his CARbon pollution i guess ( see what i did there)
[i]Offsets his CARbon pollution i guess ( see what i did there) [/i]
the bovine digestive system produces an awful lot of carbon so that de-offsets it again.
the bovine digestive system produces an awful lot of carbon so that de-offsets it again.
yeah, but everytime he farts he plants a tree. He has now just re-de-offset it 😉