Good man Tony!
Dunno if ill manage 500 a month, but want to do a lot more this year..

I will join you on that buddy ……. I’ve managed 500 miles a month a couple of times in the last 2 years since I have started cycling ‘properly’…. Both months being on holiday……

Don’t know realistically how likely it is I will do it but a good target anyways!

Set up a Strava or Endomondo group ?

I’m going to have a crack at this. With commuting, plus a weekend ride and the odd event I should manage it.

I’m prepared to pay money to a charity of your choice to watch the bmxing Tony 😆

junk miles

Thankfully, I don’t think I’ve encountered any of these.

Cycling’s great !

🙂

Endomondo challenge created.

http://www.endomondo.com/challenges/13712660

Serious question, why?

Wear tear infection etc etc. Ride for fun not quantity.

I would plan for a few higher mile months in June, July and August and a few less in December, January and February.

Wear tear infection etc etc. Ride for fun not quantity.

Serious answer, because he wants to, and that makes it fun? I would if I could so I will join the Endomondo challenge and fail miserably to make 500 miles a month thanks to idleness/work/kids/alltheotherexcusesyoucanthinkof but will enjoy watching 🙂

wonder how long before the German and Spanish endomondo trophy hunters join the group too? 😉

may join but I won’t be doing 500x12miles, but could act as the sweeper in last place. Anyone behind me will have to pull their finger out and JGOAR to have any pride.

@ton

Good luck!

I ride 250km a week so 1000 km a month commuting to work and back, don’t really ride recreationally any more

Body gets used to the distance quite easily as long as you don’t push too hard, you will get hungry though!

Good luck mate, I’ll join you on this.

It’s nice to have a challenge and something to spur me on.

Not sure I’ll manage 500 miles every month due to shift work, but I’ll have a go; just joined the Endomondo group now.

The challenge has been set up as ‘number of workouts’ not as a ‘cumulative mileage’ challenge. Surely the idea is to record the amount of miles and not how many times you ride?

I’d love to be able to do that but I don’t think I have the time (I’m assuming getting a tow from a truck at 100mph doesn’t count). Good luck though, sounds like an excellent thing to try to do!

500 miles a month can be difficult to do in December and January if its a cold winter. Why not aim for 6000
A year with the plan to do 3000 by end of June.

December was good though and only the wind towards the end of the month kept me off the bike for a couple of days.

Always good to have a challenge and if it keeps you motivated and out on the bike, then all the better.

I will be targeting something similar this year, with the intent of then racing again next year.

When I was just mtb’ing at the weekend a full week of commuting or a lengthy road ride would leave me feeling run down. After doing more miles last year(in the region of 500 per month) I feel much more resilient and no more likely to get ill or anything.
Weather and daylight though make it difficult to get the miles in through winter. So to plan for that and build some fitness I would suggest 300,300,400,500,600,700,700,700,600,500,400,300 or similar.

I agree in the winter it is pretty hard to average that, I average that in the summer but have struggled since October.

There is a endomondo winter challenge running already in this thread,(just commuting though):

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/endomondo-winter-commuter-challenge