I ran about 2000/3000 miles a year for 20 years. My knees are f**ked now and wish I hadn’t! I guess cycling doesn’t have similar consequences.

hows everyone doing* couple of days to go to middle of the month 😉

I’m not doing so well at the moment, bad weather and lack of motivation means I’m only at 180miles so a bit behind at the moment, hopefully you’ll all incentivise me to do better!

*I’m not on endomondo so not sure I can see everyone elses?

EDIT – just realises I can see the stats 🙂

200 here. on target for 440 this month.
Better than last year. I think that bar a few short rides, no proper mileage happened until after the snow went in April last year so feeling much more on top of things!
500 miles a month is a lot to balance with work/kids etc but don’t loose heart just yet people, the mileage will pick up as the weather improves!

I’ve managed one-off months with 300 miles three or four times, and I’ve managed to string together 4 or 5 back-to-back 200 mile months, but I’ve never beaten 2000 miles in a year.

Hopefully, 2014 is the year this changes, but I say that every year 🙂

200 and a bit miles so far, all on road. Over 13’000ft of climbing too. Signed up to a 100 mile audax this month so hopefully I’ll hit 400 miles this month.

blimey at some of those miles.

If I cheat, and add my 120km of skiing (including lifts), I’m still mid of page 2.

Might get out for a ride at the weekend. Gotta keep legs working for next ski trip.

Ton – lol – no 😀 – just always make the time to ride. Little on the way to work then an hour or 2 on the way back, couple of longer rides on the weekend. Not massive miles but it all adds up. Always helps living a mile or so from where I work so – it could be a 1 mile ride in or a long 30 odd miles on the way back. Lucky that Herefordshire has hundreds of miles of country lanes and every type of terrain you could want – from rolling hills to the long climbs of the Black Mountains.

Are people including miles done on turbo trainers in this?

I’m not on Endomondo and I’ve only Strava’d one ride this year but I’m up to 323 miles – all but today through commuting and track riding.

More keeping track of it for my own interest rather than any particular challenge or target.

You can’t do miles on turbo trainers. Not unless they are in the back of a moving vehicle 😆

I’ll be happy to put in 400 miles to be honest. It’s made me realise exactly how much time has to be spent on the bike to hit that target. Will be easier in summer with daylit evenings but even then its a lot of riding.

Just thought I’d follow up on this one.

I’ve just uploaded GPX files for my January riding so far to Endomondo and joined the STW 500 mile a month challenge. I’m well down on my own targets miles for the month and I was expecting everyone else to be romping ahead, but (ignoring the top 7 or 8 ) it looks like I’m in the (rather slack?) majority…

I was expecting most of you lot to have put in huge mileages…

What are everyone’s plans to eek out more mileage in the next few (Colder?) weeks/months?

I’ll admit most of mine so far have been commuting and the odd road ride, I’m planning to get out on the MTB for some night rides and crank out some more riding at the weekend, Tuesday night I hit the local outdoor velodrome for some Oval action, but it all seems like a relative drop in the ocean compared to what I want to be doing…

Based on how January has gone so far, I reckon I’m really going to struggle to cram the miles in around family and work commitments for the rest of the year, still going to try though.

I’m a bit behind too, but have ~130 miles to upload to Endo that I haven’t put in yet which should take me up to about 350 total for jan so far, going to be a low miles week this week as racing on Sunday so don’t want to overdo it.

My plan is just to keep on riding as normal and MTFU a bit when I start umming and ahhing about going out.

I think I’ve got a similar plan, I’m using this and the table as a motivator but I’m not going to beat myself up if I don’t make it. I was averaging 420 a month last year and as long as I don’t go too far backwards I’m not going to be grumpy.

fun > miles 🙂

BTW – any of you guys in/around Devon?

I’m guessing I must be last. Won’t get any rides in either, until at least mid-Feb.
I’ll just pretend my skiing mileage counts too 😉

420 – about 300 have been off road – 10 rides, 8 offroad and 2 on, zero commuting miles, wont be out until next tuesday now work/mrs work

Poor poor effort from me, spending too much time running snd swimming!! I shall make amends in February 😳

I’m currently sat in 3rd place with 617 miles, with just tonight’s 35 mile training ride to come for this month’s total. Missed out badly on Sunday with the horrendous weather cancelling the club ride, losing me between 60 and 70 miles.

It’s still been a decent month for me though and I expect Feb to get off to a good start with decent mileage on both Sat and Sun. This should be built on the following weekend when I do the annual Batley Bash road run, which will be the year’s first ton (110-ish miles door to door).

I expect Zangolin’s ‘little and often’ approach to see him sail past the 1000 mile mark for Jan this week – top stuff fella, well done!