After years of tri’s, my target was to ride more for fun and to improve MTB technique on steeper stuff and jumps.

Have ridden more – tick
Have no idea how far – tick
Have enjoyed it – tick
Better technique -tick

So good year all in all despite one bad off.

Wow, some big mileages here

Currently on 3,485 miles

I’m short about 500-700 miles though as not all rides are recorded during the year

Mostly commuting, all rides are fun though!

Targets – no big crashes, ride my bike enough to stay fast enough, improve skills, have fun. Success!

My target was based on 50 miles a week on average, so 2600 miles. I hit that at the end of November. Around half mtb, half gravel bike.
I don’t know where I’d find the time to do much more than that, tbh.

The number of kilometres/miles is pretty arbitary as it doesn’t take into account what type of riding so it is not something I particularly bother about.My targets are more race related and on that score I did OK in most of the races I entered and got on the podium a few times. The cross season didn’t go quite as well as last year as I missed the first few rounds and so started my first race gridded at the back and spent the rest of the race series gradually getting a start further forward but I did manage a third and fourth place in two one off races. But seeing as there is a thread about distance I went and looked on Strava and have managed 2000km more this year already than last year with the current total at just under 13000km.

My target was 10,000km too and i passed it on Wednesday morning, a good feeling.

I have targeted and passed 12,000km in previous years but I found I was doing a lot of junk miles* just to hit the target.

So this year i focused on more quality rides rather than quantity. I think I achieved that balance with some monster (250km) rides as well as two trips to the alps (one MTB and one road) and three days riding in Italy in June.

*junk miles in this instance meaning times I rode just to meet the target, I wasn’t benefiting from the riding in that it wasn’t making me fitter, in fact it was wearing me out. I wasn’t even enjoying the ride either.

This just meant cycle commuting to work three or four days a week rather than four or five days a week.

EDIT: not bad for a 52 year old

Current Strava figures for 2016:

Distance 8,881.1 km
Time 505h 10m
Elev Gain 125,767 m

So 119Km to get to 9K – actually knock 42Km off that as I rode into work today so 77km.

Probably 1800Km of that total was on various ITTs.

Was hoping for 8000km and reached 9000 this morning.
Very pleased.

As my workplace is 25 miles away, with 2 steep climbs in the last 4 miles, I only commute a couple of times a year. This means that my previous annual distance record is 1500 miles.

Despite not having commuted at all, this year, and having a slack start & finish to the year, I’ve already exceeded that distance and should break the 1600 mile mark easily.

Given that I’m an overweight 54 year old desk jockey, I’m quite pleased with that.

Got touring trips and a challenge ride planned for next year, so have a target of 2000 in mind.

1000 km down on my target of 12000 km. Not so bad given a miserable year. Aiming for 400 km/week over the winter months as a good base. That includes 150 km/week at race pace. Off road distance is not huge.

New tourer arrived in March, have managed just over 2000 miles since then.

I can’t stop riding the bloody thing, even after a 12 hour shift I have to take it for a spin round the block.

Combined with a couple of bimbles a week over to Barley for lunch and a couple of trips away, job’s a good ‘un.

Haven’t done this many road miles since I was in my teens.

Not telling you the average speed.
Double figures, but only just.
😐

I’m stealing THM’s list…

Have ridden more – hmmmm probably not if I’m honest
Have no idea how far -Not true, 1,200ish miles
Have enjoyed it – tick
Better technique -tick

yep, all good.

3,681/5,000 km according to strava, probably recorded around 95% of my riding this year as I had set myself that target, but I was behind anyway, it was only a lose target so while a little disappointed it is no big deal. No road riding this year, but probably around 10% turbo miles.

Kind of went of the rails a couple of months back when my bouncy bike was stolen. The quality of some of the riding I had done up to that point was really good though and I was really happy with that.

Never have a target,but whatever it is at the end of this year I am defo going to change to metric ,just so it feels moreawzum 😉

Done about 2700 miles with no mark to aim for. Gonna try for 5000 next year I reckon, when I think back through the year there really is dozens of time I should have went out but gave it a miss for whatever reason.
Being a bit of a fair weather rider it is a wee bit grim to think of the amount of times during summer I really should have went out but never bothered, especially now it’s cold and dark so early and motivation is pretty low…

and

are not really compatible 🙂

12,345 miles so far, I think I will pass 14,000 before the year is done. How many of those is actually on a MTB…very little. Lots of racing on the MTB this year but very little actual “out riding trails”.

You’re going to do 1,655 miles in the next 14 days?

My target this year was to climb into space so 100Km up. Just 2Km to go.

Don’t think there would be much time for eating 🙂