Fifty Plus (50+) - What is the typical length and frequency of 50+ Bicycle Rides the past three months?

What is the typical length and frequency of your 50+ Bicycle Rides the past three months?

Also, what is your average weekly mileage?

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Ron H - HELP!!

125-150 miles per week

100-110 mile s/ week, Once sun comes up - temperature in philippines sets a time limit on this young man of 62

During June, July and August to date, I've averaged 124 miles per week.

For the year-to-date, I've averaged 13.48 miles per day, (3141.41 miles / 233 days). This is one mile/day less than my goal, and 2.5 miles/day less than my challenge goal.

Crappy weather through most of the year has contributed, as has working five and six day work weeks. Then there was recovering from getting hit by that car, and lately I've been cleaning, sorting and packing to move when I'd rather be on the bike.

I'm hoping for a better September and October. November and December generally drop off dramatically.

For those with interest, my BikeJournal ride log (http://www.bikejournal.com/journal_public.asp?rname=brucew).

Averaged 31 miles per week since May 20-something. My 50 miler on the 4th of July helped bring up that average. Aiming for 1000 this year (560 so far), my first year biking since I got a drivers license about 41 years ago. When retirement arrives, I'll be looking to ramp that up quite a bit.

hmm, 25 miles the first month. 175 miles the second month and I'm currently on tap to do 200+ this month. so far that works out to be around 50 per week by 5 or 6 days, I guess.

I thought when I retired I would be riding everyday but that hasn't happened:( Helping an aunt with her yard work and doing landscaping in my yard has taken up a lot of my time this summer.

I still manage a 30+ mile ride each Friday, the Metro Park biking program on Saturday and a couple of other club rides on Wednesday and Sundays. I've been averaging 100 miles each week and they vary from 10-50 miles.

127 miles per week for the past three months. The riding schedule is variable from 2 to 6 days per week based on work, weather, and travel.

148 rides so far in 2009 for me:

3,745 miles
283+ hours
Average=25.3 miles/ride

My Bikejournal log: http://www.bikejournal.com/journal_public.asp?rname=billydonn

Since I'm still a working man, I tend to go with shorter/greater frequency rides
I get to work from home mostly, so I take 3 or 4 12-15 mile rides per week for lunch
Usually I get a longer, 20-40 mile, ride on Saturday.
That said, I got out today after work and did a nice 19 miler following my 11 mile up hiller yesterday

150 to 225 miles a week. This week a bit more maybe 220. I have put a bit more than 5k miles so far this year So it must be a 200 mile average. Never would have believed it this time last year.

I haven't tracked my weekly mileage for a long time. I was so happy to get out on my bike again that I didn't make weekly mileage a priority.

Most of my rides are 30+ miles, 4x/wk. Whatever that works out...I'm gauging intensity.

25 - 35mi rides two to three during the week (Mon - Fri) including hill repeats and intervals. One long / challenging ride on the weekends (read 100 >=mi. and/or 4K+ ft climbing), 30 to 40 mi. "recovery" ride the other weekend day.

I'll ride 500 miles per month except in winter. I'll do 3 rides in the 90 to 130 mile range every month, and a dozen rides in the 35 to 45 mile range every month.

Days Ridden: 109 YTD
2009 Miles: 3,292 miles YTD
August Miles: 497 miles MTD

I like longer rides, adding 10 miles to a 25 mile ride takes about 35 minutes and provides almost 50% more exercise. However, I also maintain an every-other day fitness strategy. Alternating one day of 2-7 hours of exercise, followed by one day of rest & recovery, works for me.

I'm on track for 5000 miles this year without injury or setbacks.

Michael

We have been averaging 30 to 40 miles a day on saturdays and sundays, Only exception was we did 62.5 miles last saturday. Once it cools down we plane on 20 miles at leat 3 times a week and the 30 to 40 still on the weekend.

At 57 I'm kinda semi-retired and ride whenever I don't specifically need my car. I ride 15-20 miles 5 or 6 times a week.

Ride days in August 14
Miles in August 507
Average ride in August 36 miles

Ride days this year 142
Miles This year 4254
Average ride this year 30 miles

It's great to be retired and able to spend this much time on my bike:):):)
:cheers:

20 or 25 miles most days with a 50+ miler once or twice.

I usually do 4 short rides of 30-35 miles and one longer ride between 35-75 depending on stage of training. I am almost always training for century rides.

125-150 weekly. Usually 80-110 on Saturday with lots of climbing, 25-30 on Sunday, little to no climbing, and 20+ on Wednesday after work. Wish I could retire!

Commuter here, between 100 and 140 miles per week, 10-miles one way on the commute, and the occassional endurance ride as I built up over the past 3 months.

I think this is the type of poll that is always going to get skewed results.

People who ride a lot want to post how much they ride. People who don't ride very much simply don't respond.

120-150 / week, 4-5 @ about 15-20 miles and two in the 25-30 mile range.

I think this is the type of poll that is always going to get skewed results.

People who ride a lot want to post how much they ride. People who don't ride very much simply don't respond.

I have to disagree.

A very frequent response so far is "up to 30 miles" 3 to 4 times per week, with "up to 30 miles" 1-2 times per week right in there.

That means that a person could ride five miles per week and still find themselves safely in the "up-to-30" category.

I don't really have a typical week of riding. I mix up a lot of different things depending on my schedule, the weather, how I feel and what kind of rides my friends are doing. Also, I don't keep track of my mileage.

All that said, a theoretical average week might include two 20-30 mile rides, one 10 mile MTB ride and a 50-65 mile weekend ride. So, about 120 miles for the week.

What is the typical length and frequency of your 50+ Bicycle Rides the past three months?

Also, what is your average weekly mileage?

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Ron H - HELP!!

Yeah, I probably voted wrong. I do 50 miles per day every day. That is 350 miles per week.
In Florida it goes up to 70 miles per day. that is 490 miles per week.
There are some 100 milers but they are infrequent.

Ron H tried to edit the poll, but the software would not let him

However, all-in-all, it does give an idea of the range in riding.

I have been averaging 60-100 miles/wk, generally 15-30 miles on each day that I ride.

What strikes me about the poll results so far is that while we often read interesting posts of the lllooonnnggg rides, almost everyone is typically riding rides of less than 30 miles (~45%%), or between 30-75 (again, ~45%).

I do a long ride (76+) weekly, but my most common ride is "Medium rides (30-75 miles) more than 3-4 times per week". So that's how I voted.

Aug 19, 2009 34.
Aug 18, 2009 36.
Aug 15, 2009 112.
Aug 11, 2009 60.
Aug 10, 2009 53.
Aug 6, 2009 84.
Aug 5, 2009 3.
Aug 4, 2009 43.
Aug 1, 2009 72.
Jul 29, 2009 39.
Jul 26, 2009 112.
Jul 23, 2009 33.
Jul 21, 2009 65.
Jul 18, 2009 68.
Jul 16, 2009 36.
Jul 14, 2009 36.
Jul 12, 2009 93.
Jul 9, 2009 55.
Jul 7, 2009 11.
Jul 5, 2009 55.
Jul 2, 2009 55.
Jun 30, 2009 37.
Jun 26, 2009 35.
Jun 23, 2009 39.
Jun 21, 2009 61.
Jun 18, 2009 35.
Jun 16, 2009 31.
Jun 14, 2009 47.
Jun 12, 2009 41.
Jun 10, 2009 20.
Jun 8, 2009 50.
Jun 6, 2009 114.
Jun 3, 2009 70.
May 31, 2009 56.
May 29, 2009 42.
May 27, 2009 41.
May 22, 2009 94.



Michael

I think this is the type of poll that is always going to get skewed results.

People who ride a lot want to post how much they ride. People who don't ride very much simply don't respond.

Have to agree. Last year- barring the odd organised ride of 100 miles or a metric- most of my rides were done for training. 40 to 60 on sundays and a couple of strenuous 20 milers in the week.

This year and I have been lucky to get 60 miles in over a week. That has been a 30 to 40 on sundays and "Possibly" a couple at most short rides to see if the pedals have rusted up.

66 rides in the last 3 months
5 times I rode more than 30 miles and 17 times I rode 20-29.9 miles
1112.6 miles in 90 days
2009 I have 1788 miles

I have been riding for 4 years this month and I have 9542 miles in 4 years.

I ride just about every day, but often those rides are short, sometimes under 5 miles.

Longer rides are usually on the weekend and range from 20-70 miles depending on who I'm riding with.

I voted 'Other'. Since I work rotating shifts with rotating weekends I can't even come close to a ride schedule, hell I can't even have a life schedule. I ride distances that are restricted by the amount of time I can spare on the bike on any given day. Some days I don't even get the bike out of the garage, other days I ride a century.

My scheduled work week consists of four 12.5 hr. shifts and I often get called in for one and occasionally two extra shifts.

All that being said, (all my excuses being listed :D) I logged the following for the past three months:
June...607 miles
July....620 miles
Aug....540 miles so far, no doubt it'll be another 600+ month as I have 60 miles worth of commutes alone between now and Aug 31st.
EDIT: 08/25/2009.....615 miles, think 700 miles for August...I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

Some of those rides were 5 miles, some were 100+ miles and most were any and everywhere in between.

I am going to start riding a lot less in Sept as I have a Stockade fence to build and stain now that we've shaken free of the daily rain pattern we were stuck in for six weeks or more. Oh, and a garage door to fabricate and hang...well maybe, we'll see.

Great thread Dnver! Lots of interesting tidbits of info.

average ride is 35-40 miles during the work week, 2-3 rides
sat & sunday 45-60 miles noless on the week end

weekly mileage varies depending on how i feel. work and other things going on

usually I average 140 miles per week

100-150 road miles on Sat and Sun
Mon and Thurs nights training on the velodrome ~40-50 miles (Thurs 2 hr session behind a motorcycle).
Tues Night Racing on the velodrome 20-25 miles usually average 24-26 mph
Our velodrome season runs from the first week of April to the end of September. I'm ready for it to end.

Shorter rides of 25-35 miles, 3-4 times per week PLUS one medium-to-longer 60-100 ride on a weekend.

I am a daily, year round commuter with just over 7900 miles on the road this year. My lowest monthly total was for March with 650 miles when I was traveling out of the country for two weeks. That puts my weekly average at around 250 miles. Most work days I ride between 20 and 35 miles and I try to get in at least one weekend ride of more than 50 miles. So far I have six days of rides this year that were over 75 miles (five centuries and an 83 miler). Have ridden on 214 of the 237 days this year.

my riding is mixed. 60+ on Saturday (about 50 with the club), 20-40 on Sunday, then 12 miles each on Tues, Wed, and Thurs.

36 miles/day commute. 180 miles weekly. I do 5x/week about 70% of the time. most of the rest are 4x/week.

I typically ride the road 5-6 days per week that always ends with a weekend century. Two days are 60 mile cruises in the country, one is a 90 minute hill repeat and one is an hour recovery ride. If I ride a 6th, it is on a MTB for 2 hours of tough single track with my LBS group.

Last three months my average weekly ride is 180-200 miles. I try to do at least 30 every night after work and a longer one or two on the weekends. I miss a few days here and there due to weather/work/whatever too.

I cannot believe some of the incredibly high weekly, monthly mileage some of you are doing. I retired in January and looked forward to tripling my '08 mileage which was 1136 miles. At this point I am only at 1,000+ miles for '09 so the goal isn't looking good. No excuses just taking a lot of days off I guess. Longest ride this year 40+ a couple of times. Will do a metric next month and hopefully a century before the season ends. Most of my rides have been between 15 and 30 miles this season.

09 stats to date: (terrible spring/summer weather in New England)
73 days in the saddle
1040 miles
14.3 miles per ride avg (longest ride 35 miles)
08/27 - 15 mile loop avg speed 16.4 mphs
3 flats (1 front, 2 rear)

This year each week I've been doing one 35-40 mi. ride at 16+ mph, one 15 mi. TT at 17+ mph and at least one 20-30 mi. ride in the 15.5-16.5 mph range. I try to vary between a leisurely ride with my gf and a "bust my butt" solo ride on my TT routes. I've done significantly less miles this year but am actually faster. Go figure. I'm 63 btw.

70.93 average ride for me.
165 rides totaled 11,704 miles
But I am slow.

70.93 average ride for me.
165 rides totaled 11,704 miles
But I am slow.

Hey Fred, you got some pretty nice clips there, thanks.:thumb:

Hey Fred, you got some pretty nice clips there, thanks.:thumb:

It was nothing but fun George.
Got come up and ride with you someday.
What time of day do you ride?

It was nothing but fun George.
Got come up and ride with you someday.
What time of day do you ride?

I usually leave the house about 8:30 and get back by 11:30 or 12. I was getting pretty tore up when riding 50 miles and I cut it down to 35 to 40, but I think I got a handle on it now. I'm going to try a few 40 mile rides next week. The week after next, I'm heading north for 10 days and I hope it cools off by the time I get back.
They have a lot of riders that leave out of Fulshire on Saturdays and Sundays. I did 25 miles today just to try my new pedaling out and I think I'm going to finally get it. I think with all the saddle sores I got, I should be pretty callous by now.:D Anyhow, I'll talk to you later.

I usually leave the house about 8:30 and get back by 11:30 or 12. I was getting pretty tore up when riding 50 miles and I cut it down to 35 to 40, but I think I got a handle on it now. I'm going to try a few 40 mile rides next week. The week after next, I'm heading north for 10 days and I hope it cools off by the time I get back.
They have a lot of riders that leave out of Fulshire on Saturdays and Sundays. I did 25 miles today just to try my new pedaling out and I think I'm going to finally get it. I think with all the saddle sores I got, I should be pretty callous by now.:D Anyhow, I'll talk to you later.

I am having trouble getting used to the humidity now that I am back.