Matariki

I've been tracking miles for the past 3 years and will probably continue to do so; however this year I will be using cycling hours as my prime stat. My logic is that hours are a better indicator of overall effort. For example, uphill miles take much time (and effort) but downhill miles take much less time and are kinda free miles. Another example is the miles on my light road bike are easier and faster than the miles I put on my 45 pound (loaded) commuter. I'm not sure what to aim for but I'm thinking 200 hours minimum. We'll see in 12 months.

jskash

I track my miles with Endomondo. My goal was 5,000 miles at the beginning of the year, which I successfully pulled off. Would have been a lot more but I dealt with illness and both November and December.

DowneasTTer

One of the perks of retirement is the ability to move around to enjoy biking where ever you please. For the past 5 years my wife and I have enjoyed that life style. We have been tracking bike rides for the past 10 years or so. But, 2014 represented a nice record for us in that we both rode 9,517 miles during the year. Now when you figure in the fact we ride quite slowly, an average of 10mph or so. That represents a great deal of saddle time! That's not to bad for an old guy (65) with CHF (congestive heart failure), an EF (ejection fraction of 20%, an ICD implant and on so many heart meds my HR can't get much above 100 bpm. BTW during the year we all over the eastern US and Atlantic Canada. As they say down here in Flat FL land "the good lord willing and the creek don't rise" we are hoping to get to the 10,000 mark this year.

Go forward and RIDE! oh and take the time to enjoy the scenery.

az_cyclist

for goals, I never set a mileage goal. Since I have been introduced to riding CA doubles, I factor in how much work (either travel or on call status) will possibly affect training for those doubles. My normal goal is 5 aerobic workouts a week. From Oct thru the end of April, that is 2 5k run workouts and 3 cycling workouts. May thru Sept that is 5 cycling workouts.

gevad 

I rode almost exactly 5,500 miles last year. Not sure how much elevation gain. Can someone tell me how to find that on Strava? The Strava Training Calendar shows total time and distance, but not total elevation gain.

Rich Gibson 

5099 miles this year, 6954 total since I started riding at age 71. Loving every mile.

Rich

scott967

First year to actually track rides. Ended up at 3549.2 mi and 120,511 ft. Not bad I guess for just going 'round and 'round an island.

scott s.
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JimF22003

8300 miles, 27 century+ rides, with the longest at 118 miles, 11K of climbing.

OldsCOOL

I only track what is recorded on Strava. Probably 2000mi or so.

bruised

3427 recorded from May 2014. Probably 300 or so unrecorded. The majority of those miles on a 29er MTB, the remainder (500 or so) on a Fat Bike.

Zero ridden/recorded in 2015....headed out now to set that straight.

Cyclist0084

I've been tracking miles since around 1998, and 2014 was no exception.



Well, some years I've done better than my stated goals and some years I've fallen a little short. Well, in 2014 I fell terribly short of my goals. In other words I stunk!! I "skipped" the first three months because I was trying to recover from a couple of family losses, and then missed out on four months (Aug - Nov) because of health and personal issues. Goal for the year was 3000 miles. Actual distance covered was only 743 miles. I guess I will include cycling in my long list of things that can only get better in 2015.

buckwheat987

3714 miles in my third year of cycling...Im nearly 60.

Missed 7 weeks due to cycling accident.

2015 goal is 4250 miles.

spiker

Nope
Nor '13, '12, '11, '10, '09, '08, '07, '06, etc,etc,etc.

JanMM

It's all good. Thanks for reporting.

locolobo13 

3296 mi

Only goal was to do a century which I didn't do. Maybe this year.

Biker395 

Great pix!

My miles for the year? I have no idea. Probably between 8,000 and 9,000 ... a bit below the usual.

I don't generally set goals for the year, but I think I might do the Everest Challenge in 2015. I love climbing and love the Eastern Sierra, so it's a bit of a no-brainer. Besides, someone gave me an "Everest Challenge" mug some time ago, and I figure it's about time I earn it.

nuke_diver

I did for the first time ever. I didnt have a goal but found I was just 15 miles short of 2,500 miles so even though I was sick I had to ride enough so I could say I rode more than 2500 miles not almost 2500 miles...my wife thought I was nuts. I wouldn't have had to if my second to last ride didn't have 2 flats (and only 1 spare). I hope to do more this year but again no goal...I know I have to have some things taken care of that will keep me off the bike for a month or so so I'm not yet sure how that will impact me overall

scroca

I rode a total of 5101 miles in 2014, with all but about 400 of it being on my work commute.

I'm off to a lousy start in 2015 with snow so deep that I can't even get my car off the property. Maybe I should have gotten a fat bike after all?

tigat

According to Saturday's e-mail from MapMyRide, 407 rides, 10075 miles, 522 hours. Holy cow, that's almost an hour and a half per day average time in the saddle. Probably should scale it back some and work a bit harder at my day job, but where's the fun in that?

I don't keep track of elevation gained, since my commute is pretty flat and accounts for 150 of the rides and more than 3000 miles of the total. I do count odometer measured trainer miles, even though I don't get anywhere, because I want to.

Goal for next year: debunk the old Greg LeMond saying and prove that it does get easier as long as you don't try to go faster.

Gump

1870 out of my goal of 3,000. Had to deal with some medical issues most of the season so looking forward to a good year ahead.

TCR Rider

I ended up with a total of 9206 miles with 570:02 saddle time. I had to cut it back for the last two months of the year due to some health issues. I'm having a second cardiac ablation at the end of January so I'm hoping to be back up to speed shortly thereafter.

Louis Le Tour

Just over 1900 miles from last February and I'm hope'n to do that much between now and the end of April when I start my Xcountry ride.

Jim from Boston

Slightly off topic, as a X-country (USA) rider (LA to Washington, DC), I'm always interested to read about other's plans/experiences. 1900 mile sounds like a good base to start. The Touring Forum has a lot of such threads.

We similarly started in early May.

Biker395 

Riding X-country is definitely on my bucket list. I don't have the time to do it in one fell swoop, so I've been doing it 1 or 2 weeks at a time with Cycle America.

AWESOME experience.

jimincalif

My first full year cycling since 1973 - 183 rides, 4610 miles, 320 hours.