So how many miles did you rack up in 2009?

200 – we did it!!! well done SBI

I just don't understand how guys on here can do 10000 plus miles a year and juggle it with family life and professional jobs (and STW time)! I wouldn't have a girlfriend if I did that much biking! Would never have the time to see her or do anything else as I'd be out of it. I get enough grief running/biking 5-6 times a week (she fears I'd be over-training, but luckily she's worth staying at home for :wink:). You mega mile heroes must also spend a fair amount on bike parts, not an issue if you're sponsored I guess….. 🙂

GL-Have you checked the calibration of your cycle computer, you may have put a wheel circumference of 6m and all this could be a huge misunderstanding!

Dasha – How do you calibrate a Garmin?

Im surrounded by idiots why don't you GO off and do some more miles on that bike. I'm sure being on here will stop you hitting that holy target of yours!

oh i did 496 miles in 2009

AndyP – Have you ever met me? No you haven't – so what makes you an expert on my life?
gladly, I haven't met you. But I've read a lot about cases like you in the medical press.

Brilliant response, put a route up on here from Garmin Connect!

AndyP – Classy response. 🙄

Dasha – I dont use Garmin Connect.

Somehow I suspected that would be your response!

I just don't understand how guys on here can do 10000 plus miles a year and juggle it with family life and professional jobs (and STW time)! I wouldn't have a girlfriend if I did that much biking! Would never have the time to see her or do anything else as I'd be out of it. I get enough grief running/biking 5-6 times a week (she fears I'd be over-training, but luckily she's worth staying at home for :wink:). You mega mile heroes must also spend a fair amount on bike parts, not an issue if you're sponsored I guess…..

200 mile a week isn't hard to do, seriously it isn't. Juggle it with a tough job, but the way i look at it,i sleep 6 hours a night, work 9 hours day ( i eat at work ) spend 3 or 4 hours at home, which leaves me 5 or 6 hours free for fannying about, commuting, gym, extra training plus my 2 days off. During warmer months, 200 miles in 2 days happens regularly.

I do spend alot on bike stuff but then again i dont drink alcohol ( possibly 5 occasions all last year), i dont smoke, not really into fashion per se so have nothing much else to spend money on. Ca use of the biking i only do 5-6k in my car as well, and thats mainly to get somewhere to go biking

Go and ride your bike – if you even have one.

250 250 250

radoggair – I would like to commute more by bike as it's a good distance (would be 37 mile round trip) but need the car almost daily during work so it's not really an option for me at present. Certainly with your commute the miles must quickly mount up, good on you for sticking to it all year round.

Fair enough re the cash to spend on bike parts, I'd have a pimpier fleet if I wasn't doing up the house 🙄

Are all these mega-milers doing it inside or outside. Phenomenal dedication if outside!!

It's too cold and I'm having a beer.

Now there's a surprise.

Why, I'm not a pro, I ride because I enjoy it and I've still had top ten results this year; what about you!?

Couple of top 5 results.

Sorry can’t help but get dragged in to this one – but if SBI is training that hard & is that serious about his surely it is structured and targeted. Any serious athlete has a training log/ dairy – riding that much without rest day is only going to lead to injury and illness – most modern training log have the facility to up load the info to the inter web so should be quite easy to evidence (I use Sporttracks, Garmin training centre – and have played with Garmin connect – until goggle updated the satellite pictures)

Those extra 15500 miles you did more than me will account for that then!

BNS – who mentioned training hard or seriously? I have been fortunate to not get ill or injured this year (to the point that kept me off the bike) Also, I never evers aid that I had ridden all 365 days…

27mph and 18000 miles. What would you do if you were serious!

Think of all that riding he could be doing now, rather than wasting his time willy waving on here. Unless he's got confused and thinks that time spent typing utter rubbish on STW counts towards his total, in which case he's probably not far off is 20m miles in his own little head.

not sure exacty (Ascent is installed on my work mac and not back in the office until Monday) but I think it's somewhere between 4700 / 5000 miles @ an average of somewhere slightly north of 16mph…

(Daily commute started the year at approx 12 miles a day, finished at between 35 and 55 a day average)

Zokes – Swapped the ride for a 3hr wade through the snow today. Will have a couple of hours on the turbo later too. It's great being fit, rather than being a bitter and twisted fatty.

@shortbread_fanylion
I was doing that before kids came along. I trained hard after our daughter was born premature, until one day I collapsed they had to break the door down and cart me off to hospital. What was left was the fat ex-cyclist you see before you today 😥
Nowadays I need the 4X4 everyday, though I'm trying to change that, and actually commuted again just before the holidays.

It's great being fit, rather than being a bitter and twisted fatty.

Strange comparison. You're certainly bitter and twisted (and also quite deranged), whereas I'm none of the above. To borrow your sad mantra – "Have we met"?

Basically I, like most others on here am a little tired of you being such an insufferable idiot. But I guess that's life, we all have to put up with idiots on a daily basis. Perhaps the mods should let rudepaddedfred back so you can both talk rubbish together in your own sad little thread.

Zokes – What is idiotic about starting a thread to see how many miles people did in the last year? I thought this was a site full of enthusiastic cyclists, so would have reasonably expected there to be a number of people that rode more miles than I did. People that come on here ride bikes dont they? Or do they just pretend they do – so they can pretend to be cool.

I'm surrounded by eejidts. You are my new hero, it used to be SIR Rannulph Fiennes or SIR Chris Bonington (Lance Whatshisname & Chris Thingy are up there too mind)but now it's you as you seemed to have achieved so much. Can I have your autograph please before you win something important. I'm now 53 yrs old & only managed something like….I dunno, 800 miles (all off road though) last year, I'm also a right flabby t*at so you give me inspiration. I'd love to meet you someday & snap your nose off cos it must be really long by now. Ta ta.

I love the sheep mentality on here.

How fast can you ride a reasonably flat solo 10 miler on your road bike?

22 mins or thereabouts why?

So that's 27.3 mph average then, on a road bike, not a tt bike. I am now seriously impressed. How have you ever lost a race?

On the mountain bike – no more than 100.
Road bike commuting – approx 3000
Running – approx 2500 as i had a hernia op which kept the miles down for 2 months.

Have a big year planned for the running so not much time for the mountain bike again, although it is good cross training for the running.

And whats wrong with that Dasha? 22 mins for a 10 mile TT is nowt special.

njee – kids are in bed by 7. i have lights – go figure. I can ride on great quiet roads and world class trails right from my door. it makes a huge difference…

I'm talking about these group rides that do 26mph average with perpetual tail winds though, not the odd night ride.

You have just contradicted yourself again though, you've gone from saying that you are training for LEJOG in as little time as possible (and obviously aiming for a quick time) and yet you're only doing it because you enjoy riding your bike!

22 mins for a 10 mile TT is nowt special.

Depends on the course TBH, there's a few courses where you'd struggle to do 22 on a proper TT bike, equally there's some where it's actually quite easy (much as I really hate to give any credence to the lies and trolling that he's coming up with otherwise…)

Having said that, 22 mins is getting into the "very good club rider" territory.

NJee – explain where I have contradicted myself?

I was trying to source an average ride stat from you. I wasn't talking about a TT on a specific bike. Still 22mins is still a good time for a 10 even on a TT for your "normal" rider.

How long would it take you?