Do you keep a written mileage log?
 

Do you keep a written mileage log? (or electronic log/excel spreadsheet)

Yep. On Garmin Connect. Before that, I used Runkeeper.

Yup, garmin connect.

I also write on my wall calendar. Looks great with all those blips and numbers. All active!

I write my mileage down once in a while when I remember. Sometimes it's in a spreadsheet when I get to work (I use it to keep notes on my commute, any interesting things that happened that day, if my wife rode out to meet me on the way home, etc.). Sometimes I just write it in pencil on the garage wall next to my workbench.

I really only record it so when the battery in my bike comp dies I have a pretty good idea where my cumulative mileage was.

Yes ... as I mention here in this thread ... in July:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...og-your-rides?


And this thread ... earlier this September:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ith-your-data?

+1 more for Garmin Connect

I started keeping a written training diary in 2000, still do. Added an Excel file several years ago so I could do different types of analyses, then started Garmin Connect 3 years or so ago.

Everything is in Garmin Connect, but I also keep it in Excel (actually Numbers for Mac).

Starting next year, I'll probably quit GC to use ridewithgps.com. Just found out about it, and like it better.

Yep, I use bikerides.com to log in my miles, av speeds, HR, Cal, Cad, etc. Over 6000 miles for the year has me sitting in the top ten at the site right now. Serves as a motivating factor too.

Yes. Excel spreadsheet.

I put all my rides on Garmin Connect and on Strava. Garmin is more archival for me and Strava is the one I really "use" just because it's more social with all of its automated linking to other riders, segments, etc.

I put my miles on a word.doc and back it up to my gmail, and post it on facebook.

Garmin Connect

I use WKO+.

I used to use a daily planner and write stuff in it. I have piles of them, dating back from 1980 or 1981. What's nice about them is that I make notes about other stuff and on many entries I can remember the day or emotions or other things just from reading the one entry. This is back when I tracked miles, initially, and later hours. I'd sum each week on Sunday so I had some idea of what I did.

A friend has an interesting "component wear tracking" thing. It's handwritten on graph paper but it could easily be on a computer. I'm trying to remember how he set it up but it's something like this:

Columns:
Date, Miles, (Hours?), Cassette1, Cassette2, Cassette3, Chain1, Chain2, Chainrings, Total.

So he puts in the date, day's miles, I think hours. That's every single line. And the total miles.

Then he puts in the miles for whatever cassette and chain he used. Since he has 3 sets of wheels, he has three cassettes. He also has two chains I think he switches. So if Cassette1 is his training wheel and he rode them, he adds the mileage to that column.

This way he knows exactly how many miles are on each cassette, each chain. I think he tracks tire mileage too. I'm oblivious when it comes to tracking component wear - I have no idea how many miles I have on my tires for example, other than I just changed them after 2.5 years.

He has it handwritten so he can write the number as soon as he arrives home; part of his cool down is filling in the 20 seconds of writing necessary to update his log.

Spreadsheet for personal use. BikeJournal.com for "backup" and comparison with other riders. And Ticket Factory for my signature.

Excel spreadsheet. I especially like to keep track of the age of my components and consumables. My RD cables, for example, tend to fail at about 3,200 miles because I have 5600 shifters and I shift a lot. I like to replace that cable before it fails out on the road. And, because of ongoing medical treatments, I like to keep track of my mileage during various treatment regimes. I always like to tell my doctors, "I rode 500 miles since our last appointment." That always saves time, since many questions about how I'm feeling and my general health are answered with that short report. Plus, it impresses the heck out of most medical professionals, many of whom are out of shape.

Used to use Excel, now I log my rides in RideWithGPS.

I do this now too, ever since I got a 705 last Christmas.

Before that, I was using a LiveJournal account and manually copying my stats from my bike computer(s) to a form and then maybe adding a little blurb about what I did/saw/felt, and then later adding a gmap-pedometer.com link once I figured out where I had gone.

Of course this didn't really allow me to track mileage or compile numbers.

I tattoo it onto my forearm

+1 garmin connect

Not only mileage, but also a narrative as to what happened. I put that on Word and then I can go back to find out when somethings happened.

I have the files on the computer that would let me reconstruct a record if I needed to ... no need to actually write it down!