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Tom Kunich
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You sure about those figures Jeff? That's 55 km per day every day.
Let's assume you take one day a week off for rest. Then let's say you lived in an area where
you could ride most of the days in a year. You're still going to lose a dozen or more days a
year to weather.
So that's 12 + 52 = 64 or two full months of no riding. That means that you have to average some 65
km per day every riding day.
This is why the only way you can discuss mileage is if you maintain a log of every ride.
I just don't think that there are a lot of people out there that put in 40 miles every time they
climb on a bike and they do it every day.
Tom
"Jeff Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Bruce Johnston" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > I tried to calculate how many miles I have ridden a rode bike
since high
> > school which was when I started getting serious about climbing.
This
> > included everything, races, training rides, trainer at home, etc.
I was
> > riding before Avocet and Ciclomaster came out so it's hard to
remember and
> > count the miles but I came up with a very questionable number. How
many
> > miles? What's your guest? I bet most of the older roadies on RBR
are between
> > 100k and 200k. Anybody over 200,000 miles lifetime?
> >
> I'm not that old (32), but I've been riding for the past 15 years
with
> only a couple of relatively short breaks. I've always liked riding lots of kilometres, so even in
> the early years I was doing 20,000km/yr. The last six years would be close to the 30,000km/yr
> mark, so a fairly conservative estimate would be
350,000km/220,000mi.
> That's a hell of a lot of food.
>
> Jeff
Let's assume you take one day a week off for rest. Then let's say you lived in an area where
you could ride most of the days in a year. You're still going to lose a dozen or more days a
year to weather.
So that's 12 + 52 = 64 or two full months of no riding. That means that you have to average some 65
km per day every riding day.
This is why the only way you can discuss mileage is if you maintain a log of every ride.
I just don't think that there are a lot of people out there that put in 40 miles every time they
climb on a bike and they do it every day.
Tom
"Jeff Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Bruce Johnston" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
> > I tried to calculate how many miles I have ridden a rode bike
since high
> > school which was when I started getting serious about climbing.
This
> > included everything, races, training rides, trainer at home, etc.
I was
> > riding before Avocet and Ciclomaster came out so it's hard to
remember and
> > count the miles but I came up with a very questionable number. How
many
> > miles? What's your guest? I bet most of the older roadies on RBR
are between
> > 100k and 200k. Anybody over 200,000 miles lifetime?
> >
> I'm not that old (32), but I've been riding for the past 15 years
with
> only a couple of relatively short breaks. I've always liked riding lots of kilometres, so even in
> the early years I was doing 20,000km/yr. The last six years would be close to the 30,000km/yr
> mark, so a fairly conservative estimate would be
350,000km/220,000mi.
> That's a hell of a lot of food.
>
> Jeff