smith-great

I should start keeping better track, but
Weekdays: 15-30
Weekends: 30-70 depending on what else - have to do.

Cross training on top of that also.

monsterkidz

Weekdays I get out in the evening for my usual 25-36 mile out and back.
Weekends if I'm not racing at the track, I'll go for a long, slow ride with my wife. (somewhere around 65-70 miles)

I don't really keep track of my road miles, just as the weather gets nicer I ride further.

umd

It's amazing that you can take an offhand comment that this kind of metric is not meaningful and turn that into frustration and angst.

Edit: ... if I include every separate logged "ride", my average distance in April is 29.35 miles per "ride"

BarryJo

Meaningless or not, I like keeping track of averages. Distance, mph, time, so I can see how they trend over the season.
Yeah, it's pure 41 for sure, but who cares.
If I were doing a 2 hour ride to work and 5 minutes home, I would combine both into a single ride. That or not even bother keeping track of the 5 minutes home.

My average ride this year is 42.66 miles.

Quel

What do you mean, not meaningful? It's not a training question, it's just a general question. Not everything has to be turned into a thread about improving your power output.

See, was that so hard?

Daytrip

You seem to have that effect on people with your condescending attitude. Just say'n.

And what makes you think you're the arbitrator of what is and what isn't "meaningful?"

umd

But what does it tell you? What is the point of asking for information if the information has no meaning attached to it?

umd

You are free to ignore me.

Daytrip

I generally do, but I'm the OP in this case, and you barged into my thread in your typical, arrogant style, so I feel compelled to respond.

You're free to start your own thread, which I will gladly ignore.

BarryJo

I like seeing how I measure up to others in terms of the distances others average.
The same way everyone wants to see how they measure up to others in terms of total miles at the end of each season.

Jive Turkey

He didn't ask you if it was meaningful. He simply asked what people's avg. ride distance was.

Your angst is an overall theme from most of your posts trying to shoot down someone's idea or story.

Quel

It tells me nothing. It's small talk that passes the day a tiny bit faster when I'm not overloaded with work.

umd

I don't keep track of it, so I had to export it to Excel and sum it up.

If I make a slight adjustment to what I count as rides, the number changes to 39.44. So which one is more representative of my riding, 29.35 or 39.44?

BarryJo

He wasn't always this way..... The angst seems to be in direct correlation to his upgrade points.

Jive Turkey

How about you divide them in half and just leave?

AMFJ

I'm around 25-30.


I didn't bother with a spreadsheet or calculations. I know about what I can do in the time I have afterwork. saturdays are bigger rides, but they are one ride a week--so I discounted them.


I found this to be interesting. Not in a "the world will stop revolving because of this information" type of way, but more of a "real world what people on this forum are doing". You would think from most posts here that people on here ride 6 hours each day, all up hill, at maximum power, maintaining a 200 rpm cadence while training for some event that never seems to occur.

umd

Mr. Beanz

Oh but it does have meaning! It means that NONE OF US will ever be good enough to ride in the TDF!

Grumpy McTrumpy

you can't tell tone from the internet.

cuda2k

eh, bikewire.net where I have my logs doesn't do avg distance. I'd probably be depressed if it did. I'm depressed enough just looking at my total miles for the year so far. I did nearly 1/4th of my year's miles in one week last month if that says anything about who little I've managed to get on the bike.

// one day I'll write my own log with all the info I want in it. One day...

cuda2k

... darned double posting.

Quel

The nerve of some people...talking about a thread with no point...then posting about a thread with no point in the 33 Twitter thread.

bigd

2008 366 rides for 48.3km
2009 365 rides for 55.5km
2010 102 rides for 52.1km

Riding in the winter conditions really keeps this average low.

umd

They enjoy watching me make an ass of myself

Quel

If we link your 33 Twitter post's link to this thread in Pcad's Foo thread, BF may explode.