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How many miles do you all clock up on an average year.
Last year I managed just over 3,000, but stepped it up a gear this year and have made a point of extending my commuting route. Mainly commuting I have clocked up 5,000 miles. Going to try to get to 6000 by the end of the year, but will be tough to maintain 150 a week when the weather turns.
I average about 15 miles per-commuting day (it is closer to 14.5, but my occasional weekend cycle trips will help to boost that figure overall) which comes to around 300 miles monthly. Factoring in around six weeks of holiday and around two weeks of bad weather comes to 3000 miles. I've been cycling around that annually since 2010, with a slightly lower mileage in 2009 when I was getting back into cycling. On that basis I will have cycled somewhere close to 20,000 miles as an adult by this time next year.
I generally have no interest in logging any aspect of my life, to the point where I sometimes have to calculate my age. That might seem odd given that I've been a scientist and am currently a data monkey but I just like to enjoy my life rather than to measure it.
That said, I think I've cycled about twice round the world so far. This year I'll have done about four and a half thousand miles commuting, eating two and a half chains, a pair of tyres and 961MJ of food.
Last year 4,300 miles, the 2 years before that ~3,500 miles each year.
I have targeted 6000 miles for this year, I'm currently on 5670 miles so will most likely make it + a bit.
Problem with targets is, I've been suffering lurgy for the last week so should really have been getting the train, instead I've been getting train part way and doing 6 miles in, and 21 home. The home run is a killer, and I would most probably have recovered quicker had I not being doing it, but I *need* those miles. I can be ill after 6000...
Honestly no idea this year, though likely to be substantially lower than last due to audaxing hiatus. Also I stopped commuting by bike and now walk instead, so the weekly general purpose mileage will be down (on the bike).
Mind you I use a bike for all the things most folk use cars (or buses) for, so annually my mileage will be reasonable, if not worthy of awe.
Anyway, in cycling its kilometers, not miles.
This year it is going to be about the same as last, roughly7-7500 miles. I voted No, so I use miles :-)
I logged the second half of 2012 and all of 2013 to within a couple of miles, mostly to try and see exactly how long cassettes, chains, wheels and tyres last (particularly if the chains were rotated, though component failure usually scuppered such plans) and to see how far I could get in a year with a bit of extra effort to pop out for extra rides in the evening, which pretty much ceased in mid-October when there was an extra piglet to wrangle. I haven't been as assiduous this year so there are a few blank days and weeks on my spreadsheet.
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.
Err Strava says 9120km or 5700 miles.
Do kilometers done on a turbo trainer count?
(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).
"Anyway, in cycling its kilometers, not miles."
A kilometer is a North American device for measuring how many thousandses of something there are.
About 2500-3000 miles annually, pretty much all commute (that's about 4000-5000 kilometres for our French friends).
4,000 miles (just) last year with hopes for 5,000 this year.
Looking like I'll get close but think I'll ultimately fall short as at 4,200 now.
Mileage roughly split 50:50 between commuting/utility on slow bike(s) and leisure on fast bike.
Stats for the last 365 days. Mostly recreational, some shopping, no commuting. I went decimal last year.
Last 365 days of cycling by Cycling Mollie, on Flickr
The number I like from Strava's 'Year to date' stats are:
Elev Gain 270,253 ft
@wingpig, kilometres if you prefer!
Year-to-Date
Distance 5,490.6 km
Time 273h 10m
Elev Gain 48,999 m
Rides 259
In 2013 my total was 7084.5 km.
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.
8,032 km this year, of which (judging by the bike I told Strava I'd used) about 5,800 km was commuting.
It looks more impressive in kilometres.
Anyone else use VeloViewer for analysing Strava stats? Great visualisation tools, especially the superimposed graphs of cumulative distance from different years.
"A kilometer is a North American device for measuring how many thousandses of something there are."
Woow!! That means I have cycled nearly 10 million metres! on nearly one set of wheel bearings!
The graph summary in Veloviewer is very good.
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.).
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.
The summary from Veloviewer.
@richardlmpear
Impressively consistent! My graph has a somewhat steeper profile during the summer months compared to winter...
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).
Impressive score too. Mine has plateaued while I await some more monster tailwinds...
Some impressive figures all round!
I spent 5 years of doing no physical exercise from 2005 to 2009 (inclusive), then in 2010 decided to change that.
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.
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.
I'm just about to pop over 5k for 2014 so far - will be there when I get to my desk tomorrow.
I've almost done no weekend riding at all this year - 800 miles excluding the two audaxes I went on.
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 & 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.
I hit 5000Kms for the year on my way back from the nursery pick up last night.
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.
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.
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.
"If I wanted to use miles to correspond to our roads then I would be stuck with feet and farenheit."
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.
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