How many miles a day
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How many miles a day
How many miles a day do you ride? or if you dont ride everyday, how many a week?
I average about 40miles a week, I'm still trying to get back in shape after not riding for 4 years. I plan on going to golden gate park this sunday.
I average about 40miles a week, I'm still trying to get back in shape after not riding for 4 years. I plan on going to golden gate park this sunday.
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i'm guessing 5-15 a week on average, depends if i am able to commute or not; last week was over 75.
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about 12 a day on the fixed, more if I'm running errands and whatnot. try to get in one good geared ride a week, race season is just around the corner!
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- 20- to 30-milers every day...
- but not fixed... will be exploring fixed post-holidaze...
- but not fixed... will be exploring fixed post-holidaze...
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i usually only ride a few miles a day to commute to school/go to friends' places in the fan, unless i'm riding to my friend's place that is 6 miles from here, or barnes and noble (where i used to work) which is about five. those rides are really intense because they're through high traffic areas. i wish richmond had some places to ride long distances. i'm working on it though. since i got this bike at the beginning of december i've already dropped somewhere around 40 miles into it i think.
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From: Champaign, IL
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I do anywhere between 4-12 a day depending on how many times I go between work and home.... usually its 8 for a day..~40/week I dont ride much on the weekends now that its crappy out but in the summer time I would sometimes go for a 15-20 mile ride on the weekend
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I ride 4 or 5 times a week... 50 - 75 miles. I tend to ride more and longer when it's not so cold.
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My commute is 14 miles round trip. I ride pretty much every day rain or shine. Add weekend riding to that and it's probably 90-100 miles a week for me in the winter. I have been commuting on a non-fixed bike lately because it's just been nasty out and my knees hate the cold as it is.
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Before December with its dreary weather, snow-slicked streets and days of working doubles as a server in a French restaurant, I was putting 150-200 miles a week on my legs, both fixed and geared.
So far, my December tally is around 150 miles total.
Boo.
So far, my December tally is around 150 miles total.
Boo.
#22
Originally Posted by prodigal son
40 mi roundtrip to my office (sometimes fixed,sometimes not) 3 times a week. Weekend usually around another 60-100.
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Fixed or otherwise?
I commute on the fixed-gear 30 mi. r/t. I try to do that 2 - 3x/week (So far, only one this week. Tomorrow will make 2). So that's 60 - 90 fixed-gear commute miles per week. Throw in another 5 - 10 miles over the course of the week for grocery runs and such, and I'm looking at anywhere from 65 to 100 miles/week fixed.
If you're talking total mileage then there's more.
Weekends lately have consisted of long days on the geared road bike. Usually 4 - 6 hours on Saturday (70 - 100 mi.), and nearly as long on Sunday (60 - 80 mi. or considerably less mileage, but the same saddle-time if Sunday's ride is off-road).
Toss in a Wed. night mountain bike ride of 20 miles or so (not fixed, but singlespeed at least), and it adds up to somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 mi./week +/- 20 mi.. At least that's been the routine lately. October was another story entirely. End-of-season break went on a bit longer than planned. Probably only got 100 miles in during the *month* of October...
-Trevor
I commute on the fixed-gear 30 mi. r/t. I try to do that 2 - 3x/week (So far, only one this week. Tomorrow will make 2). So that's 60 - 90 fixed-gear commute miles per week. Throw in another 5 - 10 miles over the course of the week for grocery runs and such, and I'm looking at anywhere from 65 to 100 miles/week fixed.
If you're talking total mileage then there's more.
Weekends lately have consisted of long days on the geared road bike. Usually 4 - 6 hours on Saturday (70 - 100 mi.), and nearly as long on Sunday (60 - 80 mi. or considerably less mileage, but the same saddle-time if Sunday's ride is off-road).
Toss in a Wed. night mountain bike ride of 20 miles or so (not fixed, but singlespeed at least), and it adds up to somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 mi./week +/- 20 mi.. At least that's been the routine lately. October was another story entirely. End-of-season break went on a bit longer than planned. Probably only got 100 miles in during the *month* of October...
-Trevor
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about 100-150 a week depends on if there is a weekend ride or not.




