Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

Of course my friend is an outlier. It's completely unnecessary to ride 20,000 miles/year. 200 miles/week is enough for an ultra racer, so that's "only" 10,000, and one doesn't even need to do that year 'round, so say 7000 miles/year, which is probably 450 hours including gym time. I think that's a good number if one wants to finish in the top tier on long brevets. Plenty of family time if you kill your TV.