ArizonaRuss

I did it yesterday! My first ever 1000 mile month! I'm very happy and I'm going to finish June with ~1040 miles!!!!

Richard Cranium

Wow - now you're really riding!!!

How many day did you ride this month?

ArizonaRuss

I rode every day it turns out. Commuting on the weekday (21 miles), usually with a 20 mile evening ride thrown in as well. On weekends I went riding with a group, and did between 60-90 miles over the two days.

I don't know if I can do it for July. Work will have me flying to a conference, so I'm going to be without the bike for a week or so

jeffpoulin

1107 miles in June and 1048 in May. I was over 900 miles in April, but didn't reach 1000. Last year, I had 3 1000-mile months and 3 900-999 mile months.

cheg

Another 1000 mile month in June:

6/4-6/5 Tahuya Hills 600K
6/24-6/26 Olympic/St. Helens 1000K
3 x 50 km rides to work

1750 km = 1087 miles

Thorn

Saw this thread last year; saw it this year and I never thought I'd hit it. Started regular commuting in March with a 30 mile round trip. While I adjusted to the schedule my weekend rides fell much shorter so the monthly mileage totals weren't much different than last year.

But slowly my weekends are coming back. Much to my surprise when I totalled up my June miles I had a total 1042 miles for the month of June. Woohoo! I am a cyclist!

timster

Did 1,019 miles in March. That includes a trip to Spain where I spent 8 days doing nothing but riding and eating.

Came close again in June with 961 miles.

I'll probably hit it again in September and October when I have a few long rides planned.

nickthaquick1

just out of curiosity -- how do you guys accomplish 1000 miles in a month? i'm 25 -- been riding intermediate rides for 2 years and think my body could stand the riding, but career wise i just have no time, working 8:30-7:30 every day kinda kills the mid-week cycling. :/

timster

Those hours are kind of rough. Any way you can ride before work or during lunch? Or both?

MagicJade

It is just a matter of your motivation and dedication. last year I got two months with over 1000km (still not miles), but it was achieved as below:

May
- Number of ridden days: 21
- Average ride: 55 km
- Longest ride: 134 km
- Rides over 100 km: 2
- Total distance: 1 154 km

July
- Number of ridden days: 20
- Average ride: 51 km
- Longest ride: 103 km
- Rides over 100 km: 1
- Total distance: 1 015 km

Both months I didn't bike during 3 days of weekends, where the distance could be above average.

So to achieve it, first of all ride as often as possible - the best is to do it everyday. Secondly - day off from work are the great opportunities to fill the distance gap. 3rd - participate in some brevets during weekends, in some months you could make your challenge just out of them.

jeffpoulin

About 70% of my riding is from commuting to work and back (44 miles/day, 4 days/week). The rest is from weekend rides.

Haku

MNBikeCommuter

July - 1116
August - 1375

Haku

Monthly (August 2011) stat time: I have ridden 1,400.06 miles on the road bicycle in 80 hours and 56 minutes with an average speed of 17.3 mph.
Year to date stats: I have ridden 9,471.12 miles on the road bicycle in 567 hours and 19 minutes with an average speed of 16.62 mph.

augustgarage

1074.34 miles in August...

Chris516

I am interested.

Machka 

Anyone ride over 1000 miles in August, or September, or October?

cheg

I did in 1073 miles in August, including my first PBP. I have to thank you, Machka. Your stories of long distance riding all the way back to 2003 have educated and inspired me along the way. I used to think you were crazy but now I know that we both are

thebulls

Approximately 1300 miles for August, including PBP. Year-to-date total is 7300 miles, about 500 ahead of last year, but about 1,000 behind 2007, the prior PBP year!

StephenH

Yes to all three. A peak of 1,570 miles in September, which included a 1,000k brevet and the 500 mile Texas Time Trials. So that was over a 1,000 miles in those 5 days.

MNBikeCommuter

1375 in August and 1314 in October. Sept was only 900 because of a vacation. :-)

StephenH

Slacker!

bikenh

I'll first say this...I'm unemployed and have been almost two years. I haven't even really looked for job in almost a year. If you don't spend the money...you don't have to make the money. Saying that I also have to say...I don't own a car anymore so I'm not pissing my money out the tailpipe.

With that said I have to fess I never saw this year coming. Not by a LONG SHOT! My best year ever was 1994 and I rode 7-7500 miles that year between Valentines and Thanksgiving. What a woos!

Seeing good weather I took off New Years Day for rather unusual fun ride. Last year was pretty much nothing but errand running on the bike. I think I may have seen 50-75 miles of fun riding and 3-4000 miles of errand running. Since I hadn't did any real kind of biking since '94/'95 time frame I was out of shape and I don't live in the flat lands of the midwest anymore...now I live in the hills/mountains of New Hampshire. The closest errand I can run is 12.2 miles round trip to the dump. The errands I end up running the most are 25-30 miles round trip. I do everything anymore with a daypack or backpack. I don't use a trailer, not dumb enough to and not dumb enough to use a rack.

I didn't keep track of mileage back at the beginning of the year other than New Years Day when I decided with the unreal...almost 50 degrees F in New Hampshire, to go out and ride a 100 miles to kick off the year. Bike trouble cut me short at 82 miles and toward the end I can VERY VIVIDLY remember asking myself...Is this a sign of things to come? Stupid question...I wish I would have never asked it.

Between NYD and May 21 I would say I rode at least 2000 miles. I know I was at 1500-1600 by mid April. Again it was all errand running, no recreational riding other than the NYD ride. I was short changing myself on some of the miles back then so it was more than what I was thinking. Starting on May 22nd I started keeping track and I've been using TopoUSA to figure how many miles I ride each day since I don't have a speedometer on the bike. As of today 11-28-2011 there have only been 8 days I haven't ridden since May 21st.

June 2011(hadn't gotten my act in gear, bike still giving me all kinds of fits...finally overhauled and upgraded from 7 speed to 10 speed system on June 21st): 746.42 miles
July 2011(testing the bike for reliability before trusting it to go on long haul rides) 1107.21
August 2011(July 27 and August 2 both over 200 miles each day and that was the start of the challenge, see below) 1529.29
September 2011(577.794 miles between 9/21-9/27, did three 120+ during the 7-day stretch) 1704.27
October 2011 1529.82
November(through the 28th) 1507.62

Starting with the July 27th double century, 15000 feet of vertical climbing(didn't know that until about 2 months later), I joking started a crafty little challenge. Have at least one day each calendar week where I ride at least 100 miles. So far 19 weeks into the challenge I'm still on target. Just rode 102.975 miles today/yesterday(it's is after midnight at my house now but I haven't went to bed yet).

Thus far...and hopefully it won't happen again this year(IT BETTER NOT) I've had 4 7-day stretches(no overlapping days) where I've ridden 500+ miles.

Currently since September 21st my 60 day total mileage has been over 3000 miles and since November 14th my 120 day total mileage has been over 6000 miles...yes, averaging 50 miles+ each day...including any days off. I rode 7999 mile between(not including) Memorial Day and Thanksgiving. I forgot the one column on my Excel spreadsheet was figured for Memorial Day to present not for the day after Memorial Day...otherwise I could have easily gotten that extra mile in. DRATS! Hopefully I won't try to break that next year.

ghsmith54

My goal for the year is always the same: 10k miles. Here's the summary so far:

Jan 538
Feb 521
Mar 1048
Apr 1003
May 893
Jun 763
Jul 1598
Aug 660
Sep 930
Oct 926
Nov 800
Dec 22 miles (only 1 ride)

Low (compared to usual) totals in May/Jun due to an injury, Aug due to my Mother being in hospital and spending lot of time there (she's fine now).

Should make my annual goal, 297 miles to go.

The Octopus 

Here's where the Eight-Legged One is for the year. Only one 1,000 mile month, and that involved PBP:

Jan 507
Feb 869
Mar 834
Apr 841
May 735
Jun 471 (busy month at work!)
Jul 697
Aug 1,295
Sep 908
Oct 844
Nov 682
Dec 23

Never hit 10,000 miles for a year. Come close several times, and will again this year. Just can't seem to get over that threshhold.

Only about 2,100 miles of that are rides 100 miles or longer. The rest of it is commuting, training miles, and racing.