cyclezealot

Anything up to 60 miles is normal.. Above 60, A lunch break is in order to rest the muscles.. I don't really feel bike fatigue until I get over 100.

Syscrush

Yow. Somebody likes climbing!

Divide those #'s by 10 and you've got my rating system.

You're doing those climbs on a fixed gear? What ratio do you run? What % grade makes for easy, medium, or hard climbs for you?

sneaky viking

I believe this is referred to as a 'tarck century' by some.

Sikbug

I'm out of shape, did a 15 mile run yesterday with some hills and wanted to add my normal extra 6 to it and I didn't...

Shimagnolo

Well, I have this habit of using the "View New Posts" link, and didn't notice when I responded to this thread that it was in the SS & FG forum. No, I'm not doing them in a FG.

Jabba Degrassi

I don't own a computer, so I could only fudge the distance, but my exercise runs on the MUP are usually in the 2-4 hour range.

radiocontrolhea

I'm pretty sure many feel the same. haha.

Thetank

40 miles is decent training distance, did that yesterday and most every time I ride. Here in tx we don't have many hills so we ride into the wind for that! Long distance would be a century which we're planning on doing several this spring.

beerfilter

Wow, that makes me feel a bit better about myself.

My normal 'long' ride is only about 30 miles with a total of about 2,000ft of elevation gain, most of that elevation gain is on the way out. The way back is mostly downhill with about 500ft. on the homestretch. These are long, 'invisible' hills, not puds (Pointless Ups and Downs).

bf

Yaktizzle417

I'll be posting my training for a century and a half here pretty soon so stay tuned. I don't have a geared bike to fall back on, so I'm riding fixed regardless if I can do it or not.

MIN 

4+ hours is a long ride for me fixed.

I've done 120 miles (6000 ft gain) fixed, and I don't ever want to do it again.

radiocontrolhea

wow.

j3ffr3y

depends on the day and how I feel. If its cold, 10 feels long, in a good, 70 degree day, 40 feels long.

softly

Min: 120 miles, thats crazy!

I did a 120 k ride (toronto-hamilton-toronto) early last summer, and it was incredibly painful. By the end of the summer though, I was doing 60-90 k per day pretty comfortably.
This summer I'm aiming for a century a day for 5 consecutive days...we'll see.

I remember reading about someone doing the Paris-Brest-Paris ride (about 1200 km I believe) on a fixed gear, but I'm not sure of the distance per day. Here it is: https://sheldonbrown.com/pbp-emily-obrien.html

MIN 

There's a lot of nuts who do the Seattle-to-Portland one day 206-mi ride on rided gears, not to mention Furnace Creek 508 (508 miles in the desert), RAAM fixed riders (multi-thousand miles). 120 miles is nothing. I'm fully roadied out in bibs, helmet, glove, two water bottles, nutrition and clipless for anything past 40 miles.

bboysubhuman

I commute mainly. It used to be about 18 miles round trip when I lived in DC. Now it's only 4 and a half round trip but I'm doing delivery work during the day so who knows the daily mileage. Deliveries are all pretty short though. And I'm car-free, so I ride to the store, friend's houses, etc.--3-4 miles max.

A long ride for me is maybe 40 or 50 miles. I'll do those every once in a while on my days off. I mean...it depends on the terrain, I could ride all day in phlat Philly, but out in the burbs or in DC, it's a little tougher.

52x15

Anything over 100mi gets to be a bit tedious

ZiP0082

My daily commute is only 4.25 miles (round trip), but sometimes I'll go on 25-30 mile rides, and only once have i done 65 miles, and it felt a little rough with my gearing at the time.

droptop

i want to ride out to the lake (40 miles) on my fixed, but it gets really hilly towards the end. im thinking about getting a dingleberry cog and cheating a little, but haven't decided yet.

Alex Steezeman

I'd say about this, it depends on where I'm riding though. Likes hills and all that stuff.

solbrothers

tarck century

Nick The Beard

20 miles is pretty normal for me but I would say 30+ would be long in my book.

I have only been riding since late December and want to start "training" to do my first century in the next month. Biggest factor is probably gonna be time to do 100 Miles.

bbattle

I've done a couple of rides of 50 miles or so on my fixed gear bike and several century rides on my geared bike. Not really interested in doing more. I suppose if I were touring, I'd get up early and take a nice long lunch break and end up with 130 miles before calling it a day.

I did one century that seemed to be nothing but hills. After a while, it was just drudgery and while the scenery was nice, I couldn't enjoy the last twenty miles; I just wanted to get home. Now that I think about it, the last twenty miles of most of my century rides had me thinking "let's just get this over with already."

Nick the Beard, be sure and eat a lot before, during and after your century ride. A good meal before and regular eating every hour during the ride is crucial. Drink lots of water, too. In the first 30 minutes after the ride, your body is still in "high energy" mode and will convert what you eat into glucogen for your muscles. This helps keep you feeling good the next day and ready to roll.

Scotland Yard

I think the longest I've done in a straight shot was 25, but I'm a newb. Much more in an entire day. If I commute to school its 16 round trip, but sometimes I make various detours so when I ride its usually never lower then 20 a day.

4Ring Jelly

did my first long ride on my fixed gear today, about 21 miles.

I definitely still could have gone for longer. mind you i did have a little break in the middle where I had to stop and change a tube. f***ing goatheads.