http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Annual Mileage en Tue, 26 May 2026 10:57:04 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916&page=2#post-173382 Tue, 25 Nov 2014 01:01:21 +0000 skotl 173382@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow! I'm feeling pretty good about my commute now :)</p> <p>Only been on Strava for a few weeks, but I either do three days (52 miles) or four days (70 miles) a week, so that means I'm probably around 3,000 miles for the year. That explains why I can't buy a new car as I can't justify that it only does 2,500 miles a year :( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916&page=2#post-173361 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:02:46 +0000 Kenny 173361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>5,000 miles achieved. \o/ What goal should I set for the rest of the year?!?</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/pTTcsY"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7505/15683336240_ab3b92f18a_o.png"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916&page=2#post-172309 Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:44:39 +0000 acsimpson 172309@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@winpig,</p> <p>My cycling records are largely forced upon me by my speedo (A boardman 22 function). Three of these functions include an altimeter, kilometer (sic) and thermometer. I can either set all three metrically or all three imperially. Like you I don't work in fahrenheit and as miles and Kms are easier to convert than furlongs and metres metric wins and I record my rides in the French fashion.</p> <p>In real life I generally measure long distances in miles and otherwise estimate imperially and measure metrically. I put this down to being taught estimation by my Dad while being formally educated in the metric era. Although it may just be that there are less syllables in ten feet than there is in 3 metres and estimation is all about saving time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916&page=2#post-172123 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:40:08 +0000 Stickman 172123@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Iwrats:</p> <p>I know of an insurance company* which maintained a manual reserve for some policies denominated in £sd that were still on the books. There was a <strike>rigorously derived</strike> fudged conversion factor to get it into decimal currency. </p> <p>The records for these policies were stored on microfiche in the basement and each year a junior would be sent down to retrieve them to check that nothing had changed since the previous valuation. </p> <p>This practice went on until last year. </p> <p>*not a Scotland-based insurer. Something so absurd would never happen here. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916&page=2#post-172121 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:15:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 172121@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just had an argument with a very experienced colleague about how a bank might order its records had the era of duodecimal currency overlapped with the digital age.</p> <p>We hummed and hawed over the data types before he won by announcing that he had actually managed accounts in guineas. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916&page=2#post-172117 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:08:14 +0000 wingpig 172117@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"That's metric! "</em></blockquote></p> <p>I have trouble converting between metric and decimal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916&page=2#post-172115 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:56:22 +0000 chdot 172115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"have to stop and work out how many thruppences were in half a crown"</p> <p>That's metric! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-172111 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:50:57 +0000 wingpig 172111@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"If I wanted to use miles to correspond to our roads then I would be stuck with feet and farenheit."</em></blockquote></p> <p>Who told you that? I tend to think of my height in feet and mass in stones; I know the metric values, should they be required, but due to my upbringing the non-metric units are stored in the first position, though I have a better idea of what heights of middling-large non-human things (dinosaurs, buildings, mountains) mean in metres but then switch back to miles for large-vast things (divisions of layers of atmosphere, celestial object separations). On the other hand I have almost no idea of what temperatures in farenheit are without converting them (with the exception of +32°F and -40°F) and have to stop and work out how many thruppences were in half a crown. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-172105 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:48:40 +0000 paddyirish 172105@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>3600km so far and hope to be closer to 4500 by year end. No smartphone, so measure the distances on the map the old way and keep figures together in a spreadsheet. Lost 2 months due to obscene working hours and illness + another month's worth of holidays, so room for improvement next year. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-172102 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:42:18 +0000 acsimpson 172102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hit 5000Kms for the year on my way back from the nursery pick up last night.</p> <p>I use Kms as Boardman seems to think that if you want to use metres for altitude then you are clearly French. If I wanted to use miles to correspond to our roads then I would be stuck with feet and farenheit.</p> <p>I don't think I've done more than 400Kms in a year before so my longer commute is more than making up for very few non utility rides this year. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171976 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:59:21 +0000 sallyhinch 171976@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't track my rides but I probably rack up something over 3000 miles a year. On the cycling when ill thing, I always make a point of going out for a bike ride when I'm starting to feel like I'm getting a cold &amp; mine always last half as long as my husband's do. I'm not sure if there's any science in that, but it works for me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171974 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:14:44 +0000 Dave 171974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm just about to pop over 5k for 2014 so far - will be there when I get to my desk tomorrow.</p> <p>I've almost done no weekend riding at all this year - 800 miles excluding the two audaxes I went on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171969 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:14:06 +0000 Kenny 171969@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some impressive figures all round!</p> <p>I spent 5 years of doing no physical exercise from 2005 to 2009 (inclusive), then in 2010 decided to change that.</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/p69gYN"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7533/15154402794_57599cc1ed_n.jpg"></a></p> <p>Last year I was annoyed to not hit 4000, so that was the goal this year. It became clear I was going to annihilate that fairly early on, especially when I started to add 1.5 miles each way to my commute for shits and giggles, so 5000 is within reach this month.</p> <p>I'm totally with @Baldcyclist on the "must cycle even when ill" issue. That's when I know I am sick; when I can't face getting on the bike, I must be seriously in a bad way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171959 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:41:27 +0000 HankChief 171959@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Impressive score too. Mine has plateaued while I await some more monster tailwinds... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171958 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:38:50 +0000 richardlmpearson 171958@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My weekend cycling this year has been almost non existent (kids). I can also tell when I had a week off work (but managed to sneak a long ride in). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171956 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:30:58 +0000 panyagua 171956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@richardlmpear</p> <p>Impressively consistent! My graph has a somewhat steeper profile during the summer months compared to winter... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171954 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:21:10 +0000 richardlmpearson 171954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The summary from Veloviewer.</p> <p><img src="http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/Richard_Pearson/NewPicture1_zps0750f609.png"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171951 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:15:15 +0000 richardlmpearson 171951@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The graph summary in Veloviewer is very good. </p> <p>Turbo miles do count I think. In Veloviewer, you can separated miles clocked on the "Indoor Trainer" (i.e. recorded by wheel sensor rather than GPS.).</p> <p>Most of my miles (Sorry, don't like kms as it doesn't match mapping or road signs in this country) are on road, with about 200 on the turbo. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171948 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:02:45 +0000 DaveC 171948@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"A kilometer is a North American device for measuring how many thousandses of something there are."</p> <p>Woow!! That means I have cycled nearly 10 million metres! on nearly one set of wheel bearings! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171940 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:31:09 +0000 panyagua 171940@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>8,032 km this year, of which (judging by the bike I told Strava I'd used) about 5,800 km was commuting. </p> <p>It looks more impressive in kilometres.</p> <p>Anyone else use <a href="http://veloviewer.com/athlete/541061/">VeloViewer</a> for analysing Strava stats? Great visualisation tools, especially the superimposed graphs of cumulative distance from different years. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171934 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:11:28 +0000 Bhachgen 171934@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Year-to-Date<br /> Distance 5,490.6 km<br /> Time 273h 10m<br /> Elev Gain 48,999 m<br /> Rides 259</p> <p>In 2013 my total was 7084.5 km.</p> <p>I've not had to travel so far for work this year and also have skipped a lot of club rides due to other commitments. Total would have been even lower but I made up for the lack of regular distance with some big one-off rides. These included 190miles in a 2 day adventure across North Wales, Full Eroica Britannia route, Wild Wales Challenge which was over 90 miles this year, and Chorley - Edinburgh which was 200 miles (330km) in a day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171930 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:00:31 +0000 crowriver 171930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig, kilom<strong>etres</strong> if you prefer! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171927 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:36:07 +0000 Baldcyclist 171927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The number I like from Strava's 'Year to date' stats are:</p> <p>Elev Gain 270,253 ft </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171926 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:31:13 +0000 Cyclingmollie 171926@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stats for the last 365 days. Mostly recreational, some shopping, no commuting. I went decimal last year.</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/pKqS6E"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7478/15587666208_ce6442454f.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/pKqS6E"></p> <p>Last 365 days of cycling</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/44681630@N02/">Cycling Mollie</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171923 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:12:09 +0000 HankChief 171923@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>4,000 miles (just) last year with hopes for 5,000 this year.</p> <p>Looking like I'll get close but think I'll ultimately fall short as at 4,200 now.</p> <p>Mileage roughly split 50:50 between commuting/utility on slow bike(s) and leisure on fast bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171918 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:57:52 +0000 geordiefatbloke 171918@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>About 2500-3000 miles annually, pretty much all commute (that's about 4000-5000 kilometres for our French friends). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171911 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:42:25 +0000 wingpig 171911@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"Anyway, in cycling its kilometers, not miles."</em></blockquote></p> <p>A kilomet<code>er</code> is a North American device for measuring how many thousandses of something there are. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171906 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:29:19 +0000 Charlethepar 171906@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do kilometers done on a turbo trainer count?</p> <p>(Not that I have any way of measuring how "far" I go, except by inference from the time I spend on my hamster wheel and how far I'd expect to get for that effort). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171905 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:28:27 +0000 DaveC 171905@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Err Strava says 9120km or 5700 miles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13916#post-171881 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:55:24 +0000 Ed1 171881@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got my bike end of June It has about 750 miles on the clock but did not get the clock for a couple of months so I don’t know 1000 or so I guess so far. I don’t normally use my bike for commuting, but use it for most other things. </p>