It's Time! The Annual Mileage (and/or Pissing Contest) Thread
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In 2019 I rode 83 pounds.
I converted my total KJ to calories to pounds assuming 3500 calories per pound. That was 7100 miles, BTW. But it does include bad weather trainer miles where I take my power #'s (spinner bike with Garmin Vector pedals) and estimate miles based on that. I don't have a good way to easily pull those out of my system. 10% or less is trainer miles as a guess.
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I converted my total KJ to calories to pounds assuming 3500 calories per pound. That was 7100 miles, BTW. But it does include bad weather trainer miles where I take my power #'s (spinner bike with Garmin Vector pedals) and estimate miles based on that. I don't have a good way to easily pull those out of my system. 10% or less is trainer miles as a guess.
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That's actually the fewest annual miles I've ridden since 2013 (when I was off the bike for 6 weeks with a bunch of broken ribs) and the second fewest in over a decade. I like to tell myself the reduced mileage is mostly due to solidarity with my wife, who had a catastrophic crash in late September and hasn't ridden -- or worked, or done much of anything -- since. But I also recognize that some of the obsessiveness I embraced in the past isn't as rewarding to me.
Plus I'm getting old and my knees hurt.
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Pretty happy with this for my first full year of cycling. Yes, it's a bit hilly here, at least in the upstate, SC is actually the 4th flattest state in the US.
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My mileage is the best since 2014. 5700. I'd like to start seeing the number around 7000 again, but we'll see. Now the sad part is that my performance in the pissing contest has been falling every year. (This darned aging stuff,)
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Boy, do I feel like a piker! I only logged 1,570 miles, and hoping to get 3,000 miles in 2020 as I will be semi-retired.
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2840 miles. Pretty good jump over last year's total as I retired mid year. I'm expecting to top 3K plus in 2020 and will hope for at least 3200 for my best ever.
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Horizontal: 3,715.3 miles
Vertical: 218,740 feet
Down from 5,484 miles last year. I was feeling lazy.
Vertical: 218,740 feet
Down from 5,484 miles last year. I was feeling lazy.
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For you guys who have been riding for a few years; Have you noticed recovery taking longer than when you were in your 20 and 30s? The last 4 or so years I have noticed that I cant do more than three intense/high mileage days without having a fair amount of fatigue. I run my data through Training Peaks. One of the things I like about it is when your fatigue gets high, it reminds you to take a rest day.
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had two weeks of vaca from late august to mid sept and rode some great places in the western us but never regained "it" once vacation
was over. staggered vacation time differently in 2020 so we'll see. i really really don't want to rely on buying a new bike in a futile attempt
to find motivation.
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For you guys who have been riding for a few years; Have you noticed recovery taking longer than when you were in your 20 and 30s? The last 4 or so years I have noticed that I cant do more than three intense/high mileage days without having a fair amount of fatigue. I run my data through Training Peaks. One of the things I like about it is when your fatigue gets high, it reminds you to take a rest day.
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Subtracting trainer miles, a little over 3500 miles.
Short of attempting to add (a logistically difficult) 20 mile commute to work, I don't really know how I could put in more miles than this, with a busy work schedule, preparing meals at home, and spending time with the Mrs (who will not ride). Those who are able to find the time to ride over 5,000 miles annually have my admiration and respect, if not my envy of the time lost at the expense of the aforementioned life activities.
Short of attempting to add (a logistically difficult) 20 mile commute to work, I don't really know how I could put in more miles than this, with a busy work schedule, preparing meals at home, and spending time with the Mrs (who will not ride). Those who are able to find the time to ride over 5,000 miles annually have my admiration and respect, if not my envy of the time lost at the expense of the aforementioned life activities.
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For you guys who have been riding for a few years; Have you noticed recovery taking longer than when you were in your 20 and 30s? The last 4 or so years I have noticed that I cant do more than three intense/high mileage days without having a fair amount of fatigue. I run my data through Training Peaks. One of the things I like about it is when your fatigue gets high, it reminds you to take a rest day.
I aimed for 3-4 good workout rides a week, with a full day's rest in between. Although one or two of my "rest" days including my usual physical therapy stuff -- stretching, calisthenics, etc.
I cut way back on the casual group rides. It helped with my road bike performance but I missed my friends. I'm going to try to squeeze in more of those rides this year.
For most of the year it didn't seem to be making any difference but by September I finally saw some progress. Then in November I changed my cadence from 90 rpm to closer to 60-70, pushing harder gears, and saw significant improvements. Faster, lower heart rate, quicker recovery between hard efforts.
Had to completely reconsider what I thought I knew about my body. For years I thought pushing harder gears would require longer recovery but for now it hasn't. Same 3-4 workout rides a week, day rest in between. Apparently I'd reached my aerobic limits spinning, but had some margin left by changing cadence. Surprised the heck out of me. At first I thought it was a fluke, just one or two good days. But it's been consistent and I finished 2019 with some of my fastest times on the usual 20-40 mile route. Nailed my goal on Dec. 31, 2019.
And then slept for 12 hours.
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Heck, yeah. At 62, and recovering from injury and illness in 2018, I finally had to be methodical about training to include rest... plenty of it.
I aimed for 3-4 good workout rides a week, with a full day's rest in between. Although one or two of my "rest" days including my usual physical therapy stuff -- stretching, calisthenics, etc.
I cut way back on the casual group rides. It helped with my road bike performance but I missed my friends. I'm going to try to squeeze in more of those rides this year.
For most of the year it didn't seem to be making any difference but by September I finally saw some progress. Then in November I changed my cadence from 90 rpm to closer to 60-70, pushing harder gears, and saw significant improvements. Faster, lower heart rate, quicker recovery between hard efforts.
Had to completely reconsider what I thought I knew about my body. For years I thought pushing harder gears would require longer recovery but for now it hasn't. Same 3-4 workout rides a week, day rest in between. Apparently I'd reached my aerobic limits spinning, but had some margin left by changing cadence. Surprised the heck out of me. At first I thought it was a fluke, just one or two good days. But it's been consistent and I finished 2019 with some of my fastest times on the usual 20-40 mile route. Nailed my goal on Dec. 31, 2019.
And then slept for 12 hours.
I aimed for 3-4 good workout rides a week, with a full day's rest in between. Although one or two of my "rest" days including my usual physical therapy stuff -- stretching, calisthenics, etc.
I cut way back on the casual group rides. It helped with my road bike performance but I missed my friends. I'm going to try to squeeze in more of those rides this year.
For most of the year it didn't seem to be making any difference but by September I finally saw some progress. Then in November I changed my cadence from 90 rpm to closer to 60-70, pushing harder gears, and saw significant improvements. Faster, lower heart rate, quicker recovery between hard efforts.
Had to completely reconsider what I thought I knew about my body. For years I thought pushing harder gears would require longer recovery but for now it hasn't. Same 3-4 workout rides a week, day rest in between. Apparently I'd reached my aerobic limits spinning, but had some margin left by changing cadence. Surprised the heck out of me. At first I thought it was a fluke, just one or two good days. But it's been consistent and I finished 2019 with some of my fastest times on the usual 20-40 mile route. Nailed my goal on Dec. 31, 2019.
And then slept for 12 hours.
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6,462 miles which is slightly higher than my 38 season average of 6,155 miles.
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For you guys who have been riding for a few years; Have you noticed recovery taking longer than when you were in your 20 and 30s? The last 4 or so years I have noticed that I cant do more than three intense/high mileage days without having a fair amount of fatigue. I run my data through Training Peaks. One of the things I like about it is when your fatigue gets high, it reminds you to take a rest day.
Heck, yeah. At 62, and recovering from injury and illness in 2018, I finally had to be methodical about training to include rest... plenty of it.
I aimed for 3-4 good workout rides a week, with a full day's rest in between. Although one or two of my "rest" days including my usual physical therapy stuff -- stretching, calisthenics, etc.
I cut way back on the casual group rides. It helped with my road bike performance but I missed my friends. I'm going to try to squeeze in more of those rides this year.
For most of the year it didn't seem to be making any difference but by September I finally saw some progress. Then in November I changed my cadence from 90 rpm to closer to 60-70, pushing harder gears, and saw significant improvements. Faster, lower heart rate, quicker recovery between hard efforts.
Had to completely reconsider what I thought I knew about my body. For years I thought pushing harder gears would require longer recovery but for now it hasn't. Same 3-4 workout rides a week, day rest in between. Apparently I'd reached my aerobic limits spinning, but had some margin left by changing cadence. Surprised the heck out of me. At first I thought it was a fluke, just one or two good days. But it's been consistent and I finished 2019 with some of my fastest times on the usual 20-40 mile route. Nailed my goal on Dec. 31, 2019.
And then slept for 12 hours.
I aimed for 3-4 good workout rides a week, with a full day's rest in between. Although one or two of my "rest" days including my usual physical therapy stuff -- stretching, calisthenics, etc.
I cut way back on the casual group rides. It helped with my road bike performance but I missed my friends. I'm going to try to squeeze in more of those rides this year.
For most of the year it didn't seem to be making any difference but by September I finally saw some progress. Then in November I changed my cadence from 90 rpm to closer to 60-70, pushing harder gears, and saw significant improvements. Faster, lower heart rate, quicker recovery between hard efforts.
Had to completely reconsider what I thought I knew about my body. For years I thought pushing harder gears would require longer recovery but for now it hasn't. Same 3-4 workout rides a week, day rest in between. Apparently I'd reached my aerobic limits spinning, but had some margin left by changing cadence. Surprised the heck out of me. At first I thought it was a fluke, just one or two good days. But it's been consistent and I finished 2019 with some of my fastest times on the usual 20-40 mile route. Nailed my goal on Dec. 31, 2019.
And then slept for 12 hours.
So far the apps have detected days when my HRV shows I need rest rather than exercise. I deliberately stayed up all night without sleep, drinking coffee, and hadn't slept for 24 hours or longer. (I didn't plan that, but had two crises calls from friends late at night and it was already after 3 a.m. by the time it was all sorted out so I just stayed up). Both apps showed an alarming departure from my usual HRV, which didn't show in my daily HR and BP readings. So I took the app's advice and napped most of the day, despite being tempted by the sunny cool day for riding.
No idea how this will affect my annual mileage, but that's never been a priority for me. My old neck and shoulder injury usually dictates how much I ride. So I mostly focus on fitness, getting stronger and faster. If I feel well enough I'll ride farther. If not, I aim for about 90 minutes and however far that takes me.
If you try HRV Elite, prepare for some aggravation setting it up with a Tickr or other monitor. It's the most finicky app I've tried with the Tickr and usually takes three or four tries to get the app and devices talking. Usually I need to tell Wahoo Fitness to forget the Tickr, then pair it via the Android phone settings page, then try a couplafew times to get HRV Elite to read the Tickr. But once it connects the data is pretty interesting.
WattsOn Blue just uses the fingertip doodad and works reliably every time. But it limits the number of tests a day. HRV Elite enables multiple tests a day to get a broader baseline. Both apps are free. I suppose the compromise is access to my (hopefully private) data. But I'm at the age with nagging health issues that I no longer have the luxury of privacy regarding health. As a VA client (including a CT Scan this afternoon to check my neck injury from 2018), my health data is one IT vulnerability and hacker attack from being public anyway.
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I had a very modest target for 2019 of just 5,000km and ended up getting there on December 31st! At the end of the Summer I was over 1,000km short but I started commuting during October and it was the commuting miles that got me there.
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Currently at 7400 miles. I've got back to back rides of 300 miles each planned for tomorrow/Friday to get me to my goal of 8000 miles :-) In the spirit of full disclosure this includes bad weather rides on my trainer (with Vector pedals) and estimates of miles based on that data. 10-15% of the total as a guess. Splitting that out is not straight forward in my case.
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Passed my goal of 5000 today. 2021 I am shooting for 7500.
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8172 mi and 482,000 vertical feet, as of this evening. Take off a thou for the trainer if you must.
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5586, most of that since June (got back into cycling as my primary sport again). Subtract about 500 indoor miles if you like. And I'm about 45 miles from finishing the Rapha 500 challenge.
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Here is an interesting twist (simply because it works to my personal favor ). How about the oldest guy/gal to hit 100 x Age (in miles). I am 71 at 7400 miles. We might have to put Carbonfiberboy in his own competitive class.
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I got 19,289 km, or 12,000 miles for you Mericans. Well, I will be over 12,000 miles by the end of 2020. This is my biggest year by far. My 2020 resolution was to not turn down an invitation to ride if I didn't have a legitimate reason, and I was able to keep it.
I also have over 1000 miles running, so total mileage is 13,000+ miles.😁
I also have over 1000 miles running, so total mileage is 13,000+ miles.😁