Wanted to post to see how many miles a week you rideor intend to ride. Weekly goals. Me, I have a goal of seventy a week. I usually come close but sometimes am under and sometimes over. Depends on my schedule ect.. Also am curious what kind of things you run into on the road or trails. This past week I came onto a rattlesnake and have a dog on my route who has me timed to a tee and know.s when I,m coming everday so he can take chase..
How Many Miles a Week
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Hmm... used to commute 11miles each way 3~4 times a week... now I'm down to an 8 mile commute but in urban Okinawa... which is a new thing to me so I'm easing into it slow... Weirdest things: almost hit a beaver on Hwy 75 just south of Bellevue Ne @ 0130 in the morning... and a huge a$$ banana spider to the face on a trail here in Okinawa. (lost control of the bike on the last one)
Dan
Dan
I ride 5.5-6 hours weekly, plus 2 hours of spin class. I don't know what that equates to in mtb mileage, but I work it.
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Wow
Thats a good amount. Before I started my FJ project about a year ago I averaged about 100 a week. When the project is complete I will bump my current average up. What kind of tires are you running?
Thats a good amount. Before I started my FJ project about a year ago I averaged about 100 a week. When the project is complete I will bump my current average up. What kind of tires are you running?
mruff said:
Sort of. I used to ride much more when I was serious about road racing. I switched to riding mtb (no mtb racing) at the end of 2009, but I still race local road races. That's over in a couple of weeks, forever.
So a weekend of road racing would be a crit/roadrace combo for maybe 100 miles total. Nonracing weekends = 2 fast training rides, usually about 120 total. And then I ride a couple hours Monday and Wednesday nights in the dirt.
Rave's week is more impressive to me though. I have done a total of 2 spin classes in my entire life. The first kicked my ass so bad I was scared to go back. I finally went back thinking the first was a fluke, but no. Really sad though, because there were some really good looking women in there ... whose asses were not being kicked.
Tires: Continental Grand Prixs on the road, some NOS Big Kahunas offroad (Trek's copy of Panaracer Smoke/Dart). Those were sucky tubed tires in the late 90s(?), but they rock with the Stan's tubeless set up. When my lbs moved locations I found a box full of them and took the whole thing.
Spinning really changed my riding. I only tried spinning as I was terribly out of shape after one winter (off season). I couldn't believe that I had nothing left at all for leg strength or wind. I was sucking wind big time.
The first 5 classes of spinning kicked my ass, but once over the hump, I never looked back. I've been able to carry the spinning intensity to my riding, so I don't get tired and I don't run out of steam. I basically ride the mtb just like a spin class, only for two plus hours. Hammer time.
Once snow and ice start Mid December), I'm spinning 3X weekly until early March.
Edit: I've been spinning for nearly 5 years now. It's an amazing cross training activity.
Cruiserdrew
On the way there
Commute 5 days per week when it isn't raining-6 miles in 14 home, so about 100 per week. I could take the 14 route both ways, but then I'd have to skip the coffee in the morning, and leave in the dark. I'm no longer dedicated enough to ride much in the dark.
Like Mr Toad, when I was racing it was 250 miles per week and sometimes more.
My commute is along the American River. So stuff I see regularly: Coyotes, rabbits, deer, pheasants. Saw a great horned owl last evening which was cool.
But you get old, and you get lazy. Happy to still be riding though.
Like Mr Toad, when I was racing it was 250 miles per week and sometimes more.
My commute is along the American River. So stuff I see regularly: Coyotes, rabbits, deer, pheasants. Saw a great horned owl last evening which was cool.
But you get old, and you get lazy. Happy to still be riding though.
I agree, bike commuting can be rough. Now that we are in the rain season here in the pacific NW, its makes it nasty to ride. Mine was 24 miles round trip and when its cold, rainy, dark, and windy, there isnt much worse when going or coming from work. Bike lane or not.
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Cycle sites
I think the coolest thing I have seen on a ride was a desert owl.. They are minurature versions of a typical owl but with twice the attitude
I think the coolest thing I have seen on a ride was a desert owl.. They are minurature versions of a typical owl but with twice the attitude
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Mile Counter
250 miles a week would be a lot of saddle time. Maybe one day but don't have the time now....
250 miles a week would be a lot of saddle time. Maybe one day but don't have the time now....
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Went on a 20 mile ridetoday and was one mile from home when I came up on a swarm of bee,s. I,m allergic but luckily made it through without being stung
