End of Year: Mileage (nerdy stats alert)

Just 268 miles for April (compared to well over 400 in the previous two Aprils). Rubbish month: the weather and health were not on my side.

Count: 34 Activities
Distance: 588.88 mi
Time: 42:58:18 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 32,065 ft

Doing more mtb, cuts down apparent mileage.

yeah I was just thinking "man what's with only 588 miles"

443 miles
26:32:55
19,605 feet

305 miles for April. Just starting to extend my commutes for fun. First Friday Night Ride on 1st June (you ever thought about doing one, NBS?).

It's unnatural, I tell you

So far for 2012:

Activity count: 42
Total distance: 308.42 miles
Total ride time: 19:59:28
Avg. Distance: 7.34 miles
Avg. Ride Time: 28:34
Avg. Speed: 15.43 mph

This is basically commuting back and forth to work. The weather's finally changing for good here so I plan to do a lot more and longer rides. I'm signed up for the Bike MS Pedal to the Point ride in August (150 miles/2 days) and I may sign up for the NYC Century in September.

It is unnatural, you're right, and I used to think as you do. Then I gave it a go. It does have a real charm to it, honest!

Tonight's may be interesting... Standing water in a lot of places, deep water at buttsbury ford (you may have spotted cav wading in it this week). Am looking at big overshoes and sealskinz socks. Should be fantastic.

Good luck you two. Where are you riding to this time - are you heading anywhere Cavendish's lake? I wasn't working today so went off up into the Essex lanes (56 miles) - there was indeed a lot of surface water and the occasional section of road that had turned into a stream or pond. Also - it's cold. I had to wear winter tops and a gillet in the end. I set off (foolishly) in shorts, but ended up riding to my nearest bike shop and buying some leg warmers. I got a rear wheel puncture at the 41-mile mark in the rain, which wasn't fun to sort out. Then literally as soon as I got back on the bike the chain came off and I had to sort that out.

It's not just the riding in the countryside in the pitch black bit about these night rides that fails to attract me. It's the fact it's at night time, when I'd rather be sleeping. But I'll try to hook up with you two for some kind of (daylight) ride at some point, if I can overcome the large obstacle that is most of London between us.

Tonight's was supposed to be just me (and the regulars) but I managed to pick up a bug from Vic and don't want to be too far from home iyswim... So I'm hopefully going to go to Brighton on Sunday morning along with a bunch of veteran HGVs.
Riding at night in the countryside is very liberating, strong lights definitely required but it's truly great.

Oh, and they're going through, or past buttsbury ford. I can send you a gps of last year if you want?

Yeah, why not

when I'd rather be sleeping

Again, I 100% agree BUT occasionally it's worth doing something outside your comfort zone. And this is one of those times. Riding in the dark countryside is awesome, when you're in a group, and have a half-decent light.

315 miles for May. Still below average, though I did have some lovely town riding last weekend in the sunshine. And tomorrow's night ride to Whitstable will kick off June with a handy 80 mile boost.

Distance: 630.79 mi
Time: 49:11:27 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 31,619 ft

16 rides, 33 hours, 514 miles, 25k feet of climb

first time over 500, woo.

night ride ... 80 mile

sounds fun!

353.6 miles, back on track after a poor April

June: 365 miles, quite a lot of that in the rain

547km 4686m of climbing for June a lot in bastard hot heat

Distance: 742.93 mi
Time: 53:43:26 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 52,252 ft

Record-breaking July for me: 524 miles. This also includes my new record for a week: 224 miles (not counting a few cycling holidays when I was a teenager when I probably did more than this).

Garmin stats:
Count: 17 Activities
Distance: 521.29 mi
Time: 30:53:13 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 6,397 m (or 20,987 feet if you prefer)
Avg Speed: 16.9 mph

However, it's even better than that because I didn't ride until 5th July so I can keep adding to that total until Saturday to get a 'month' - at the moment I'm on 592 miles for the last 30 days so I should be able to bump that over the 600-mark.

I'm very pleased with that, but my mind boggles when I realise that Krakow does double this every month on a unicycle riding up Ben Nevis in the snow.

Distance: 733.14 mi
Time: 51:38:01 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 46,548 ft

342 miles
21 hours
16k feet of climb

i'll spare you guys the excuses

june was 452 miles, which was a falloff from may, which was 518 miles ... what can i say, summer has many temptations.

622 miles for the 'month' 5 July - 4 August

>710 miles for the last 30 days. I will almost certainly never top this.

Topped it. Now at 720 miles for the last 30 days; 224 for this week (so far); 325 for this month so far (which would get me well over 900 for the whole month if I carried out at that rate). Will be off the bike for about a fortnight shortly, though.

ah yeah, training for vacation

407 miles for August, the vast majority of it in the first 12 days.

~900km ~9000m climbing can't be more exact due to some gamrin screwups this month. Good month, though.

501 miles, 23k feet of climbing. now to sacrifice my fitness via two weeks of vacation.

279 for September at an average speed of 18.5mph (much faster than normal - in addition to races I've done a few training rides at 19-20mph)

August (thru 8/16)
Distance: 425.53 mi
Time: 32:53:21 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 30,065 ft

Sept:
Distance: 0
Time: 0
Elevation Gain: 0

grueling (actually i have ridden my bike to the rail station so it's more like 20 miles or so for sept)

Sounds like you need some proper cycling trousers

i am planning to wear 25 lbs lead trousers to ensure quality workouts.

Just 241 for October. I'll need to do 300 per month for November and December if I'm to reach my target of 4,000 for the year.

297 for October.

I can probably scrape together 100km if I include bike share rides in London and Melbourne, a ride to the DMV, going to work and a jaunt to a pub near cambridge. I have already nearly done that much this weekend.

damn, "posts that hint at the poster's rich, fun-packed, fulfilling life outside of ilx"

yeah, i've probly got about 30 junk miles to put on top of the 297 just going to the railstation and dr/rehab appointments. but if my miles aren't garminized, they don't count.

Should have tagged that </BRAGGIN'>

410 miles for October ... 5,000 miles for the year looking realistic.

167 miles for November

473 mi
39:32 hr:min
25k ft

5200mi ytd- wont make 6k mi goal :(

706km
33hrs
11352m

3249km for year, hitting the road earlier next year, that's for sure

November has been so mild it's been my second highest milage of the year

290 miles in November, eek.

Pretty unlikely I'll be riding before 2013 so

5,022 miles
317 hours
306k feet climbing
153 rides

Surprised at the amount of time for some reason.

Next year: climbing goal instead of mileage? (Eek)

I thought I'd be able to pack a decent bit of riding in over the Christmas holiday, but the seemingly relentless record-breaking shit weather put paid to that.

233 miles for December.
3,800 exactly for the year.

Strava has me at 3353km on the road, heavily weighted to the back end of the year, over 3000km June to the end. There's probably ~5000km including riding on the trainer which doesn't count but sets me a nicely attainable goal of 5000km on the road for the 2013.

35901m climbed as well

22.5km/h average speed for the year

308 rides (actually more if you treat each commute direction as a separate direction)
Distance: 5,635.05 mi
Time: 411:18:45 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 298,166 ft