How may miles have you ridden this year?

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zeke said:

How may miles have you ridden this year?

I dunno. I don't have a computer anymore.
I got rid of it. Okay, to be honest I
lost it a few years ago and happily didn't
bother to replace it.

I'm just shy of 10,000.

How much elevation gain did you get this year? 🙂
(I don't know how much I got, either.
Except, not enough.) If I bothered to do New Year
Resolutions, I think I'd pick: hillclimbs. Maybe
make an effort to get some of that old stuff back.

cheers,
Tom

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Quoted message said:

How much elevation gain did you get this year? 🙂
(I don't know how much I got, either.
Except, not enough.) If I bothered to do New Year
Resolutions, I think I'd pick: hillclimbs. Maybe
make an effort to get some of that old stuff back.

Although I live in the foothills of North Carolina, I don't consider
myself much of a climber so I try to stay away from the really big
climbs. I think my short Monday through Thursday rides (~ 25 miles)
are around 1800 feet of climbing.

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There are usually threads addressing that issue in early January, that often
include other personal highlights and/or lowlights of the past year, new
year's bike resolutions and whatever. We'd hate to leave out the mega-miles
we're all accumulating in December, as it were!

"zeke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

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Well, if you want to compare miles, you could post them on
http://www.bikejournal.com . Most features are available with free
enrollment. Menu items in yellow require paid membership.

zeke said:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

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"zeke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

:: How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of
:: 10,000.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with comparing miles. You did real good. I just
wish I had time to ride that many miles!

zeke said:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

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Well rough estimate tells me somewhere about 3,000

Ken
--
The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets
old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without
shocking the entire community. ~Ann Strong

2100, up from 1550 my first year. Don't have time to ride much more
than that, but am happy with the increase and will try to do better this
coming year.

"nash" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

:: You gotta wonder what kind of a yo yo puts his training
:: log up for everyone to oooohhhhh ahhhhh over

I'd wonder more about anyone who'd take the time to do that....

Ron Wallenfang said:

There are usually threads addressing that issue in early January, that often
include other personal highlights and/or lowlights of the past year, new
year's bike resolutions and whatever. We'd hate to leave out the mega-miles
we're all accumulating in December, as it were!

Durn straight! Although at the rate I'm going this month, I should have
posted last week. Concert blew last weekend, train ride torching this
next weekend. Boo hoo. Wouldn't give either of them up, nor the kids
coming home next week.

OTOH, set a new personal best mileage for the year today (as I have
every day for a few months!). And I've had fun riding this year. Even
if it isn't really time to sum up the year yet!

Pat

zeke said:

Quoted message said:

How much elevation gain did you get this year? 🙂 (I don't know how
much I got, either. Except, not enough.) If I bothered to do New Year
Resolutions, I think I'd pick: hillclimbs. Maybe make an effort to get
some of that old stuff back.

Although I live in the foothills of North Carolina, I don't consider
myself much of a climber so I try to stay away from the really big
climbs. I think my short Monday through Thursday rides (~ 25 miles) are
around 1800 feet of climbing.

Similar terrain for me, so probably similar climbing. The hill right
outside my home drops 700' to my preferred riding area, and there are
plenty of hills beyond that. Even the other way into town it drops at
least a couple hundred feet. Anywhere I go I have to climb to get home.

To answer the original question, probably 4-5000 miles. I'd be doing
twice that for sure if I didn't spend 2-3 months away each summer.
Getting back on the bike around here after that is murder. A flatland
vacation with bike on the way home sure helps get me moving again.

To those wondering how to get more miles in -- sell the car!

Matt O.

Not much :-/

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Quoted message said:

2100, up from 1550 my first year. Don't have time to ride much more than
that, but am happy with the increase and will try to do better this coming
year.

Tom Keats wrote:
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Quoted message said:

How much elevation gain did you get this year? 🙂

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Quoted message said:

Almost exactly the same amount that I lost ;-)
--

Paul D Oosterhout
I work for SAIC (but I don't speak for SAIC)

"zeke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

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Bike: Trek 5500 Project One
View my training log:
http://dltsoftware.com/efitness/login?userID=demo&password=demo

Hummm, that is a toughie, not counting other parts what does three rear
tires add up to?

Earl Bollinger said:

"zeke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

----------------------------
Bike: Trek 5500 Project One
View my training log:
http://dltsoftware.com/efitness/login?userID=demo&password=demo

Hummm, that is a toughie, not counting other parts what does three rear
tires add up to?

Somewhere between 1 and 15,000 miles (probably). That's the range for
me over the last few years, too... ;-)

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

zeke said:

How may miles have you ridden this year?

All of 'em except a maybe one the few times I walked the bike.
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zk

zeke said:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

Not that many, but it's hard to tell now - ask again when the year is over,
there are still over 20 days left to ride!

--
Mike Vore
http://www.OhMyWoodness.com
http://mike.vorefamily.net/twr

Earl Bollinger said:

"zeke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

----------------------------
Bike: Trek 5500 Project One
View my training log:
http://dltsoftware.com/efitness/login?userID=demo&password=demo

Hummm, that is a toughie, not counting other parts what does three rear
tires add up to?

Depends. It's possible to get a load of miles on
a good tire if you wear it all the way down til the
tube pops through the casing and says howdy.
That is a definition of a good tire--one that can
be worn all the way to and through the casing while
still retaining its integrity otherwise. Some
brands (like Continental) never make it, their
sidewalls fail long before the tread is worn out.

How many licks does it take to get to the center
of a tootsie pop?

I doubt I will reach 9,000 road miles this year,
but I did about 1500 singletrack which is not bad.

Robert

In article <mdfeh.449447$5R2.795@pd7urf3no>,

nash said:

You gotta wonder what kind of a yo yo puts his training log up for everyone
to oooohhhhh ahhhhh over

I wish I had a camera. Then I could put up some photos
of the great riding around here. Maybe some folks would
go "oooh" & "ahhh" over them, but I'd prefer they'd say
stuff like: "hey, that reminds me of < such-'n-such> where
I ride," and contribute their own experiences. And then
other riders in far-flung exotic lands might follow suit,
and riders from all over the world could come together and
say "Hey -- I know exactly what you mean."

I especially gotta put up a picture of the polka-dot house
up on Lakewood & 4th. New Brighton Park is pretty photogenic,
too. Then there's that garden gate made out of gardening tools
just across from the Bean Around The World coffee shop at
Main & 20th (one of my favourite haunts.) And the vistas from
the Mountain View boneyard.

Some live-action vid of bombing along New Westminster's Front
Street between somewhat favourable traffic light phases, or
scorching down Mt Seymour Parkway, or wending one's way through
that ugly bike lane thingie on Wayburne Way that's strewn with
tree blow-downs might be pretty kewl, too.

I guess logs & journals are what we resort to when we
don't have cameras.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Of course, not many of those words are quantitative :-)

cheers
Tom

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Den 08.12.2006 kl. 03:51 skrev zeke <[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

----------------------------
Bike: Trek 5500 Project One
View my training log:
http://dltsoftware.com/efitness/login?userID=demo&password=demo

This year I didn't do any miles. Just kilometers. The LBS had offered
to convert my Flight Deck to miles for free. But at my age the miles
seem overwhelming long. If I was still in my fourties I would probably
be doing a lot of miles. But since I ride granny gears I have resolved, I
better stick to the kilometers for the rest of my cycling days.

Ivar