SoCal'ers consider Urselves Long Distance Riders?
 

I had a couple of years, maybe 04 and 05 where most my rides were 60-100 milers. I guess that would be the year I considered myself an LD rider. Lately, just a rider!:o

H'bout Yourself?:rolleyes:

Yes, I consider myself a long distance rider. I have done 59 rides with a total 4321.52 miles. That averages to 73.24 miles per ride. Also with 269,542 feet of climbing that averages out to 4568.51 feet per ride. Not too bad.

I don't know if I am or not. I typically do around 65 to 75 miles on one of the weekend days, and around 33 miles every other day during the week. I guess that makes me a medium distance rider.

I was gonna burn you for that title, but now I'm just gonna say "casual rider"

i only ride 24 miles a day, mostly flat. but i can still do long rides without a problem.

Any ride thats over 40 miles is long distance for me

I think 100+ is overrated

I'm in the gray area between just sitting on the bike,
and doing ME distance rides......

I used to do 40-60 miles(mostly offroad) 3 times a week and now I consider myself a cyclocommuter.

No, I do not consider myself a long distance rider. I consider myself someone who loves to ride and often does so to excess. I also consider myself a receational cyclist with a high pain threshold and addiction to endorphines - so, really, I'm an addict.

I consider myself Sacha's b****.

Whatever she wants to do, I just go along for the ride. Ask her, not me. :p

EDIT: Distance is misleading, if you throw in elevation gain (although many of you BF peeps are just insane in both categories). My mileage is going down significantly the more climbing I do (Avg 175/week down to about 125/week), although I am trying to combine both. Some of those other high-mileage groups on BJ live in pancake-flat areas...

Somebody hit me with their truck and my Celica was deemed a total loss by their insurance company about a year ago this month. When that happened I decided to "take a little break" from car driving and use the bike instead. So lately my focus has been more on everyday urban cycling. Fifty miles in one day is a long ride for me. I guess if you add up all my short trips I ride pretty far...:D

There are two cars in our family but one sits in the driveway...I still don't have the heart to sell the 66 VW Bus I've had for 30 years.

When I consider distance riding it's more along the lines of "bike touring through Europe someday"...

I like rides of all distances. Well, under three miles is a bit short, and I'm still not sure I ever want to ride a double century.

No, I don't consider myself a long distance rider. Never did. I would say 99% of my rides are under 40 miles, in which a good majority of them are under 25 miles. The remaining 1% would be rides over 40 miles with an occassional century and double century rides thrown in here and there...:D

I'd like to ride a century just to say I've done it...:)

To me I consider regular, multi-day touring cyclists to be long distance riders, so I'm not.

I would want to try a trip like that some day, but I have a bad habit of coming up with bad, hypothetical/logistics scenarios that prevented me from doing it... that plus I'm just lazy. :lol:

Well Palm Springs is a good for a first time century....and there will be a BF group there!!

Tour de Poway - Oct 7th?

yes

+1 - or come join me, Alice, on an ad hoc century. I'll be doing that this month with another one of my favorite riders, Happytime. We'd love to have you join and we'd go easy on you (i.e. it won't be a climb 24Kft over 108 miles kind of ride). :)

Whats an "ad hoc" century?

You and Happytime? I'm scared already. :D

Wrong thread, Steve. You were supposed to respond to the thread that asks:

"Are you an insane cyclist who keeps getting smashed up by cars, yet never misses a ride even if it's snowing, and still continues to do centuries when you can't even walk without a severe limp?"

;)

I PMd you. ;) Oh, and Jshen is coming too (yippee!) Ad Hoc simply means that I'm designing the route. You won't know where you'll end up but it would be an adventure.

And you forgot...he smiles and raises his eyebrows like, "see, see...I am insane and I love it...." whenever you mention that he shouldn't be walking with that limp, let alone riding. :rolleyes::p

Exactly. He also looks at you and smiles when he says things like, "I ride every day, before work, at lunch and after work." Then he raises his eyebrows ("see?"). :D