How's your mileage progressing for 2014
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Still on my first year of being back in the saddle and I've started off the year with a vengeance. I don't commute to work so everything is pleasure miles including from the wet cold miles.
So far this year I have cycled 1064 miles with 39600 feet of elevation, that's almost half of what I cycled from 12th March 2013 to 31st December 2013
12th March 2013 was when I got back on my bike, I managed to do a loop of 2.77 miles and it almost killed me, now I often do 80 miles without even thinking about it and my biggest ride to date is 111 miles
How is your mileage progressing?
So far this year I have cycled 1064 miles with 39600 feet of elevation, that's almost half of what I cycled from 12th March 2013 to 31st December 2013
12th March 2013 was when I got back on my bike, I managed to do a loop of 2.77 miles and it almost killed me, now I often do 80 miles without even thinking about it and my biggest ride to date is 111 miles
How is your mileage progressing?
Year so far? 346.8 miles
February was shaping up to be a great month. I managed 110 miles in the first three days, but it was cut savagely short on the third day, when I was hit by a van. It'll be at least mid-March before I even think about swinging my leg over a top tube again. It looks like I might need to revise my 5,000 mile target for the year down by a chunk.
Strava nonsense:
Distance - 346.8 mi
Time - 29h 53m
Elev Gain - 18,829 ft
Rides - 18
February was shaping up to be a great month. I managed 110 miles in the first three days, but it was cut savagely short on the third day, when I was hit by a van. It'll be at least mid-March before I even think about swinging my leg over a top tube again. It looks like I might need to revise my 5,000 mile target for the year down by a chunk.
Strava nonsense:
Distance - 346.8 mi
Time - 29h 53m
Elev Gain - 18,829 ft
Rides - 18
Edited by yellowjack on Friday 28th February 22:24
Good work managing to do that only on pleasure. Mine is 1062 miles so far, including commuting for a few of the weeks and a week away in Cyprus, but had to take a week or so off due to injury. Should be hitting my targets for the year, although will be aiming for more uality miles than quantity.
346.1 miles so far, but there's more hills round here as I've done just over half a mile less than Yellowjack, but I've climbed 34,521ft.
Way off where I wanted to be, lost half of January with the worst cold I've had in years, and have lost half of February due to leg surgery. Been taking it easy since being allowed to ride again last Wednesday, club MTB run tomorrow, then hitting it hard. Next race on the 23rd March, so need to get fit again.
Way off where I wanted to be, lost half of January with the worst cold I've had in years, and have lost half of February due to leg surgery. Been taking it easy since being allowed to ride again last Wednesday, club MTB run tomorrow, then hitting it hard. Next race on the 23rd March, so need to get fit again.
47p2 said:
Still on my first year of being back in the saddle and I've started off the year with a vengeance. I don't commute to work so everything is pleasure miles including from the wet cold miles.
So far this year I have cycled 1064 miles with 39600 feet of elevation, that's almost half of what I cycled from 12th March 2013 to 31st December 2013
12th March 2013 was when I got back on my bike, I managed to do a loop of 2.77 miles and it almost killed me, now I often do 80 miles without even thinking about it and my biggest ride to date is 111 miles
How is your mileage progressing?
We started about the same time - I remember vividly collapsing out of breath and needing a fag after two miles on the flat in April last year....So far this year I have cycled 1064 miles with 39600 feet of elevation, that's almost half of what I cycled from 12th March 2013 to 31st December 2013
12th March 2013 was when I got back on my bike, I managed to do a loop of 2.77 miles and it almost killed me, now I often do 80 miles without even thinking about it and my biggest ride to date is 111 miles
How is your mileage progressing?
So far this year I've done my first century, my first 200km ride too (Jan and Feb respectively).
1263 miles this year. Which is more than may, June, July, august and September last year combined...
Monthly total is climbing and it will keep doing that with bigger events and nicer weather coming :-)
Struggled with motivation in December and January and a crash set me back, but compared to that its positively tropical now :-)
gazza285 said:
346.1 miles so far, but there's more hills round here as I've done just over half a mile less than Yellowjack, but I've climbed 34,521ft.
There's always somewhere hillier 
Converted to metric since everyone else on the thread seems to be:
470.0 miles
69,485 feet
My house is around 1,000 feet above sea level whereas my work is only 3 miles away yet is at sea level, as is any other flat land. Aside from the downhill to work its pretty much impossible for me to do a ride of more than 3 miles that doesn't have a minimum of 1,300 feet of climbing in it.
Lost the first half of January as I was on holiday and have been slowly doing more each week since then. Going to have to step it up a lot if I want to get close to the Velobici Challenge from next week though.
lynus2004 said:
2,084 miles so far for the year, will be knocking it back a bit once the racing starts. Weather was decent in Jan and Feb so no excuses.
Really?! Where was that?!I've managed 850 km so just over 500 miles, probably half of that is commuting. Hoping to do some hills tomorrow, and may get a bonus ride if I can talk my son into it in the afternoon.
gazza285 said:
346.1 miles so far, but there's more hills round here as I've done just over half a mile less than Yellowjack, but I've climbed 34,521ft...
Whereabouts in Yorkshire are you, gazza285? I was born and raised in South Wales, and later I was based in Ripon for a couple of years, back in my Army days. There's a fair bit of climbing to be had up there, and I wish I'd had a Garmin back then
You've done a hell of a lot more climbing than me in the same sort of distance, and that's with me doing a fair bit more 'hilly' stuff than most of the riders in my Strava clubs. I'm regularly in the top 3 for the week for climbing, although I don't usually figure too highly on distance and pace. All that's in the can at the moment though, as this broken shoulder blade isn't in too much of a hurry to heal.
626 miles with 16,500ft climbing. Slightly behind target as I'm hoping for a 4000 mile year. I spend weeks and weekends in different houses, and will soon have a bike at each house (one for commuting, another for weekend blasting) so can hopefully make up the difference with some long Saturday rides as we move into spring.
A little behind where I had planned on being due to a week off the bike with a gastric infection. Not too bad but only because I am 'between contracts' at the moment, once I am back in work the miles will drop a bit - unless I can commute by bike!
40 rides
102h 45mins
60,161ft climbing
1,796 miles/2,890 kms
Plus 3 x centuries
40 rides
102h 45mins
60,161ft climbing
1,796 miles/2,890 kms
Plus 3 x centuries
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