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NEUROSPORT
what's a good number of miles to ride per day on average ?
i ride about 15 miles at a time and i do it about 4 - 5 times a week. so i average about 10 miles per day.
how many miles per day on average would you say one would have to ride before he started to overtrain ?
You are nowhere near overtraining ... not even close. Unless of course you're very active in other sports or are working a physically active job.
Read through this site:
http://www.ultracycling.com/ ... you'll get a much better idea of what's possible.
If you go into the Long Distance forum, you'll see that there are two challenges: the 1000 km Month Challenge and the 1000 mile Month Challenge. Cyclists participating in the 1000 km Month Challenge are averaging 33.3 km (20.7 miles) a day for 30 days. Cyclists participating in the 1000 mile Month Challenge are averaging 53.6 km (33.3 miles) per day for 30 days. I'm not sure you'd want to do that year round, although I think there are a few doing that, but it can be comfortably done several months in a row.
But the answer does depend ... why are you riding?