dcrowell

Yep. On New Years Day, I rode the town I used to live in (Charlestown Indiana) just to enjoy the great selection of beer, and some food. Yes, I overate, but I probably burned off a lot of calories. The ride was 42 miles round-trip. I rode my single-speed.

So, how far would you ride to overeat?

btw... I did the same thing again on the 2nd. I need to stop that.

CraigB

The last time I regularly went on "breakfast" rides was about 25 or 30 years ago, and we'd pick routes to a pancake house that would total about 40 miles r/t. Ah, those were the days - back before I became a homeowner and my weekends were free to spend on any sort of unaccountable time sink I wanted. I miss those times.

Leaving time management matters aside, I'm not sure at this age if I could handle the return ride on an over-full stomach. And the beer part of it I know would cause me a variety of "issues."

jethro56 

If I drank beer I'd have to pay "rent" on the way home too many times to work off any of the pizza.

Doohickie

I do about 40 miles regularly on Saturdays for breakfast rides. The rides themselves aren't that long, but I ride to and from the meeting point which usually ends up giving me 35-45 miles total before lunch.

I also do Night Rides with a group that starts about 9 miles from home. Those rides are typically 30-35 miles total including from/to home. Sunday nights is a pub crawl. The last Wednesday of the the month is a pho (Vietnamese food) ride.

dcrowell

I need to ride those distances without the calorie bomb if I ever want to lose weight, but I enjoy the food so much. Maybe I'll change the route up to be a century with the pizza at the 80-mile mark.

As far as beer, I do have to limit the consumption to avoid having issues on the way home. I really don't need legal trouble, or an emergency room visit.

jboyd

Last year, I rode my mountain bike 33 miles on multiple occasions to partake of Bob Evans Biscuits & Gravy. So yeah, seems reasonable to me :-)

cyclokitty 

I rode 40 km on my birthday and I felt the hamburger and chocolate milkshake were my moral right (after my shower). Good grief I was hungry.

antimike

This is an interesting post. Sometimes I don't have to ride to over eat. I think mentally, the farther we go, the more we feel that we need to actually reward ourselves for something that we actually genuinely like to do. I want more control over my eating no doubt!!

Neil_B

Hmm, I thought overeating was why God invented bike touring. :-)

dcrowell

Yeah, but then it's not overeating, it's "refilling the fuel tank".

Neil_B

I must have a leak then.

bradtx

dcrowell, Unless it's 41 miles to and 1 mile back, I'd have to pass.

We used to ride what we called a bagel boogie. Visit a couple of bagel shops (I love blueberry bagels with jalapeno cream cheese) on about a 30 mile social ride. Usually the ride was in January and it was a good way for those that took time off to regain a bicycle butt.

Brad

Doohickie

That reminds me of a proposed ride around the town... the Tour de Braum's, where we would ride to the different Braum's ice cream shops around town. Some of us talked about it but never got around to doing it.

Neil_B

There's also my infamous "cheesesteak rides" into Philadelphia.

RichardGlover

I'd ride that far for a really good cup of coffee, but to eat? I'll pass

dcrowell

Riding for ice cream? I'll have to arrange for that in the summer.

Neil_B

In 2009, I purposely chose a route to take me near Nuttters in Sharpsburg, MD. It's rumored to have the best ice cream in Maryland.

jefferee

My family gets together for campfire-cooked greasy breakfasts a few times each summer.

I turn it into a duathlon (ride-eat-ride), and the most direct way there is about 100 km (60 miles?) round trip. Average speed is never quite as good on the way home, as my position isn't quite as aero.

dcrowell

I don't suggest plugging the leak...

bradtx

Doohickie, At nearly the finish, still had a distance to ride to the cars, of a Galveston-Boliver ride we stopped for home made ice cream at a small shop... best d*mn ice cream cone I ever ate!

Brad

CraigB

There's a ride here in Indy that hits 5 or 6 bakeries and donut shops along the route. Participants are required to consume a donut or pastry at each stop.

nymtber

Did that with my dad two years ago, along the Erie Canal pathway. Round trip is about 22 miles the route we take, I figured I burned more than I ate for "lunch" I mean, a medium soft ice cream cone can't have THAT many calories, and it sure taste good

We usually stop for a full lunch, but that day it was a bit warm and neither of us had much of an appetite so a small ice cream cone sounded real well

skilsaw

I have a favorite coffee shop 10 miles from home.
Bike there. Coffee and a danish while reading the newspaper. Bike home.

I hope the quotient of weight loss > Zero.

I do this for recreation... not training.

dcrowell

I was so good today. I went to the Y before work, ate well, got a massage, rode home. I felt so good I wanted to treat myself to too much food and beer... but I didn't. I cooked a quickie meal at home and there's no beer in the house.

That's okay I need to get up early tomorrow so I can swim before work again.

jethro56 

So can we assume your job is eating well while being massaged?