I try to ride every day after work in the evenings. By myself, it gets boring after about 20 miles so I have just a select few routes from home that I ride. It's basically 2 rides, one towards town where I may loop to climb a particular hill or down and back up (town is in a valley, so riding back up the hill is always there.) The other has a few variations to where I could ride 15, 18, or 20 miles, but it's essentially the same ride. I can take 3 different roads but they all come back out on the main state road I take to get back.

I'm just getting use to not living in the middle of nowhere where it would be a 45 minute drive just because I'm out of milk. It's getting to the point that if I drive anywhere, it is to be with the small group I ride with and we ride for usually 60 or more miles. We are slow, we aren't elite road bike riders who have to be 110% the whole time. It will be an entire day with usually a stop for lunch at a restaurant. We average around 12 mph, may be doing 10 mph at one point and cruising along at 18-20 mph because of it being a half % downhill or something. We mostly ride the various trails around western PA. I like these rides a lot better because I'm with good friends and we all ride about the same. Even if we get together after work for a quick ride, it ends up being several hours.

I can't do that alone as I get bored after about 2 hours. Also when I'm alone, I ride on the road and it's a lot of hills to climb. After 2 hours of the hills, I'm ready to be done. I do like my almost daily 15-20 miles though.