How many miles do you ride or average a week?

[przc]

I'm just wondering how many miles you ride a day or week what is the average??

[JennK13]

Since it's summer, I've averaged 330 miles a month for the last three months. With the days shortening, that will start to taper off after October when i'll ride when I can!
I can't really give a per ride average - my commuter gets ridden more days a week than my other bike, but my Fuji sees more miles per ride than the commuter. I guess I'm lucky since I ride for transportation AND recreation!

[featuretile]

I average about 25 miles 3 - 4 times a week (sometimes longer - up to 50), It comes out to between 60-100 miles a week. I've only been riding about 1 1/2 years. My first road/hybrid bike (Specialized Vita) had about 1500 miles on it when I sold and replaced it with my road bike (Specialized Ruby). My Ruby has about 2800 miles on it now. It's hard to believe that I am capable of this! I had not ridden a bike since I was in my 20's (I'm 58 now). My physical condition is so much improved. I feel like I'm 40. I'm not rushing to train for centuries, although I think I will be able to work up to a metric century soon. I think I could do it now if it was somewhat flat. Since there are so many hills in the Santa Cruz Mountains, I've never really done any flat rides.

[ny biker]

I generally ride twice per week during spring, summer and fall. Weekday post-work ride is usually anywhere from 10-25 miles, depending on what kind of shape I'm in and when the sun sets. This is usually a very hilly ride. Weekend ride is longer -- 30-70 miles. Most weekend rides are 40-50 miles.

I don't ride more because I try to get in cross-training, including weight training 2x per week.

[Lesley_x]

I'm managing about 30 miles a week but I'm working loads at the moment. When things calm down with work I'll try to get more in. I tend to do 2 short rides during the week, and one on a Sunday morning.

I wish I could do more! All I seem to do is work, eat, sleep and repeat these days!

[redrhodie]

I try to ride 100 miles per week year round. There tends to be about 6 weeks that I don't even come close due to weather, but most of the time, I'm within 10%. I very, very rarely ride over 40 miles in a day.

[Biciclista]

my commute (3 times a week right now ) is 8 miles. Then I do a longer ride on saturday or sunday. This week it was 50 miles...

I don't always do a long ride on the weekend.

[przc]

I asked to make sure i am riding enough. I ride 4 days a week and have worked up to 30 miles a day. I feel like i should be going faster than i ride and i can't break my average of 15-17 mph. Any suggestions?

[shootingstar]

This year during warmer cycling season has been less than last year: average of 200 kms. per wk.

Last year I was averaging 250-260 kms. per wk.

Then in winter it drops as low as 40-50% per wk.
I wondered briefly why I had stretched bike chain and worn gears. Yea, right: dummy me with all this riding..

[ny biker]

I asked to make sure i am riding enough. I ride 4 days a week and have worked up to 30 miles a day. I feel like i should be going faster than i ride and i can't break my average of 15-17 mph. Any suggestions?

Well you're faster than I'll ever be.

"Enough" is what you want it to be. If you're trying to race, that's one thing. If you're training for a specific event, you also should have a plan. If you're just having fun, then ride when and how much you want.

[Catrin]

This is my first season riding, ever, so each month I am riding more than the month before. Right now I am averaging between 100-150 miles a week, and try to ride 4-5 days a week. Only one long ride a week though, the other days I ride between 20-35 miles each depending on how much time I have.

[azfiddle]

I am just into my second year of riding (since July 2009). Since getting up to speed in the fall, I usually get 100 miles a week, +/-. I try to find time for 2 mid-week rides of 10-20 miles, a 20 mile commute on Fridays, and at least one longer ride (35-50) on the weekends. I am getting ready for El Tour de Tucson this year, and would like to ride the full 109 miles, so I am expecting my miles to go up to 125-150 per week as it gets closer.

My speed has increased from 12.5 to nearly 15, occasionally 16-17 if it's not on a route with big hills or if I ride with a group. I would like to be a little faster, but I think it would take committing myself to being more serious about incorporating intervals, and I'm not sure how much I want to do that. I like enjoying riding.

[Crankin]

My weekly mileage varies a lot, despite the fact that for the past five years I have had a total yearly mileage of between 2500 and 3000 miles. I was sort of hoping to hit 3k again this year, as I was ahead in my mileage, but the last 2-3 weeks I have slowed down due to weather, vacation, illness, and being back in class/internship. We will see.
I tend to do 1 long ride on the weekend and one shorter one. During the week, it really depends. Since I wasn't working this summer, I was doing 1 or 2 longer 30+ mile rides, plus maybe a short 15-20 mile ride. When I was teaching, I did a lot of short (13-16 mile) rides after work and I commuted 1-2 times a week for about 8 weeks, in the spring.
Next week my full schedule will kick in, and then I will see if I can reach my goal of 3k. Of course, doing a century might help... the last time I rode that much I reached 2500 by 10/7. Right now I am at 2200 or so, so I have some work to do. I know once November comes, I start transitioning to hiking, some riding outdoors, and awaiting the first snow for x country/snow shoeing.

[chicagogal]

200-250mi/week during the racing season. About 75 of these miles come in the form of intensity workouts or racing, 50mi of active recovery, and one long steady group ride/week (50-120mi). Since the racing season is winding down, so will my intensity. But that means that I will get to do more endurance rides and up my weekly mileage!!!! . . . it has been a long hard season, and while I have enjoyed every minute of it, I am sooooo looking forward to some long relaxing rides in the countryside :-)

[DarcyInOregon]

I ride between 500 and 700 miles a month; just a bit under 5000 total miles for this year, so I will probably reach 6000 miles for certain before the end of the year. I also work out at the gym for core and weights, walk, hike, jog at the college track now and then, sometimes I do cardio machines at the gym ... It was hard to achieve the level of cardio endurance that I now possess, and I don't want to lose it, so I keep going, even in the cold and rain. I am trying my hardest to burn off the last of the excess body fat I have and it isn't coming off easily, but I remain motivated. By 2013 I would love to do the charity park-to-park tour in Montana sponsored by CASA, but I need to weigh less to do that amount of climbing over one week.