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how many mpw?

how many miles a week do you ride on the average?

  • less than 20

    Votes: 3 20.0%
  • 20-50

    Votes: 4 26.7%
  • 50-100

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • 100-150

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • 150-200

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • over 200

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • way over 200

    Votes: 1 6.7%

  • Total voters
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bruno

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how many miles a week ya generally ride?

i commute 5 days a week 24 miles roundtrip (shortest distance) but this time of year with extra miles for fun and all on the way home (and sometimes on the wayTO!). 60 or 70 a day on the weekends. errands as well as i try to never use my car 'cept for goin' hikin'.

so i voted "over 200".

all on fixed gear (as those are the only bikes i have!):smile:
 
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150-200 now that the weather is good. 100-150 if the weather is less than favorable.

Sometimes less than 100. Depends a lot. I wish I could do 70 miles rides saturday and sunday, but you're pushin' four hours for a ride like that, and with all the crap I have to do on the weekends, that just eats up too much time.
 

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It really depends for me. Some weeks I will push 150-200 if I do some longer weekend rides. Unfortunately, those haven't happened of late so I've been more in the 50-100 category.
 

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skibum1321 said:
It really depends for me. Some weeks I will push 150-200 if I do some longer weekend rides. Unfortunately, those haven't happened of late so I've been more in the 50-100 category.

Just vote 150-200 to pad the vote talley and make the board look better to outsiders.


And..... hopefully they won't read this post.
 

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voted 20-50

Recently I have had only one night available to ride/week and my weekends have been filled with stuff that doesn't allow me enough time for the longer rides I crave. I'm not a morning person and after a couple weeks of getting up early to ride I lost motivation to get up that early - I guess I should find a partner.

On a general night after work I'll do my standby 25 mile loop.
This past week I rushed out of work and squeezed in this new 45 mile loop before the lights went out.

I gotta get out and ride more... but then there's climbing, kayaking, hiking, drinking...

sigh
 

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cbcbd said:
voted 20-50

Recently I have had only one night available to ride/week and my weekends have been filled with stuff that doesn't allow me enough time for the longer rides I crave. I'm not a morning person and after a couple weeks of getting up early to ride I lost motivation to get up that early - I guess I should find a partner.

On a general night after work I'll do my standby 25 mile loop.
This past week I rushed out of work and squeezed in this new 45 mile loop before the lights went out.

I gotta get out and ride more... but then there's climbing, kayaking, hiking, drinking...

sigh

Especially drinking...
 

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150-200. Wish it could be more but rarely is. Not enough hours in the day and, while I ride further on the weekends, I like to do other stuff too. Plus lawnwork, errands, life...uugghh.
 

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Not enough, voted 20-50, but hoping to improve. This week I have started waking up at 5:30 am and getting in 10 mile rides. Don't have time for much more than this due to work. On weekends I try to do a a 30 mike ride, I've only been able to do this twice thus far, otherwise it's 15-20 miles. Hope to improve as the season progresses.
 

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andyzee said:
. Don't have time for much more than this due to work.

ride to work!!! wif petrol at 3 bucks a gallon, it makes cents! (get it? "cents"! i'm so funny!!:daffy: )

for real though! just ride to work. don't worry if there's no showers or you're all sweaty and all. exercise sweat don't stink!!! in fact, chicks dig it!!!:dunce: :oops: :-o :beer: :smile:
 

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bruno said:
ride to work!!! wif petrol at 3 bucks a gallon, it makes cents! (get it? "cents"! i'm so funny!!:daffy: )

for real though! just ride to work. don't worry if there's no showers or you're all sweaty and all. exercise sweat don't stink!!! in fact, chicks dig it!!!:dunce: :oops: :-o :beer: :smile:

That's the biggest problem, no showers. When I first started at this company, they did have showers and I did ride to work. But after awhile they took the showers out.
 

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andyzee said:
Not enough, voted 20-50, but hoping to improve. This week I have started waking up at 5:30 am and getting in 10 mile rides. Don't have time for much more than this due to work. On weekends I try to do a a 30 mike ride, I've only been able to do this twice thus far, otherwise it's 15-20 miles. Hope to improve as the season progresses.

I'm doing my best to improve on this and am happy to say that in the past 7 days, I got in 73.5 miles. 15 years ago, that would have been a decent 1 day ride, but not getting any younger and working on improving this.
 

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I rarely get to go on the long rides. Too much to do on weekends. Lawn, fix things, honey-do list. I've been trying to replace miles with climbs on the weekends. Big steep hills near where I live. So I'll just do those + 30 - 40 to round out the week. Also do some 20 mile sprints as an alternative to long rides. So about 250 per week.
 
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