Originally Posted by
Biker395
Boy … I must be getting old. Not because of the cycling, but because
I had a hard time figuring out how to read that article.
Distance per ride seems like an odd metric to me. Too many confounding factors involved.
FWIW, I ride about 25 miles or so a day during the week, and a longer ride on weekends. That’s down from my pre-retirement daily commuting distance of 34 miles a day, but it includes about 2500 feet of daily climbing, and my commute had virtually no climbing.
My endurance is definitely waning and I’m not as tolerant of heat as I used to be either. Getting soft, I guess.
LOL! After a quick look around I couldn't/wouldn't bother to try to go further.
With this stuff and cell phone use, my user IQ is about the same as my waistline, not my weight !!!! LOL !
Somewhere along the line, in chatting about riding the bike, we get stuck on speed, then miles (early on) and then we move to 'hills' or 'climbs', then time, and then Heart Rate, VO2 Max and Watts... all well and good.
I thin some of the 'Best' miles I ever did was when my kids were young enough to both fit into the Burley Bugger, and off we'd go... Never did any serious up and certainly nothing very steep or long 'down'. But turning and seeing their faces on the downhills was so Great ! And, of course when wee past a pasture, we had to stop... I remember Gerry, the Lama, spitting into my son's face... LOL!
now, knowing what some of you riders are doing, does encourage me to consider, review and maybe put more of something into some of my rides...
... but ultimately, riding is a singular thing, even in a group...
it's about you riding the bike, a singular thing, in a group or alone, it's always yours, like few other things (there are some. others...) which are Always Yours...
...We have a standing Saturday Group of old racers (and a few others...) for 10:30 coffee, after 'the ride'.... most of us are not riding in a 'group', the fast 8:30 group, but we all ride or come to the 10:30 meeting, to meet. no one ever asks about what anyone's ride was, we do talk 'riding' and 'racing', and tariffs and religion and our latest afflictions.
But we all ride... Our Ride... and we're all always getting there, with a big SEG !
... I can Obsess on my Numbers... but I try not to, anymore... their never what I hope for... LOL!
But I do very much enjoy my rides....
Ride On
Yuri
If you haven't read any of Maynard Hershon's stories, I highly recommend any and all...
"Tales From the Bike Shop"