2,500 miles in a year challenge

[Fredwina]

It's only 48 miles a week for a full year. If you figure a 6 month season, you need to do about 12/day(for those of you who live in less temperate climes). Of course, the challenge is to get to 2500 first...

[guest1]

I assume this contest is for 2007 ... so, start riding ladies! The 2500 is an achieveable goal and one worthy of pursuing! If you break it down to miles per week, that is only 48 miles a week -- 2 rides @ 24 miles, or roughly 3 hours a week (and that is outdoor miles only). Now, indoor, if you ride for 1 hour indoor and cannot caluculate, a good "guess" is 15 miles for every hour, or take your average outdoor hourly rate and calculate for indoor. For example, you normally ride 13 mph, than for every 1 hour indoor, you can add 13 miles. It is that easy!

In 2006, I know a woman who rode 11,000 OUTDOOR miles. That total did not include her 3 times a week indoor spin class miles and occassional trainer miles. Yes, she rode a lot, but in 2005 she did the same thing and only rode 10,000 outdoor miles (even high mileagers can increase!). Personally, I have increased my outdoor miles every year for the past 4 years, plus have added much more indoor training miles to my routine (but I don't add the indoor miles to my total yearly miles). If I did add both outdoor and indoor, I would probably have 5000-6000 miles in 2006; I do know I had roughly 4700 outdoor miles in 2006. So, ladies, 2500 CAN BE DONE!!

Hope everybody has a SUPER CYCLING YEAR in 2007!!!

[mimitabby]

about indoor miles, it takes me 30 minutes to ride 6 miles generally speaking.
these are hard miles, they don't feel like 6 miles at 12mph average on the road.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Mimi don't feel bad- I average only about 9.3 or so mph. I think it's partly due to living surrounded by hills. On flats stretches I ride at about 15-20mph, I can do 35mph downhill if conditions are safe, but much of my actual riding TIME is spent crawling up hills at 2-3mph, so that brings my average speed way down.
My "daily" routine ride (whenever weather & my schedule allows) is 21 miles but it takes me about 2 hours 10 minutes to ride it.
The good thing is that we are out there pedaling and getting healthy.

[wavedancer]

I joined the challenge...I was thinking that 2500 miles would be a good goal (I did a little over 2300 this year). I do count my indoor miles. They actually are harder miles than my outdoor ones usually, thanks to Coach Troy!

[Bad JuJu]

Of course, the challenge is to get to 2500 first...

Maybe so, but for me, the challenge is to get to 2500 miles...period.

[7rider]

Yeah...that "only 48 miles a week" sounds good - until you add up all those weeks you don't do any riding, or get out once for 15 miles, and then you start thinking of that "debt" that has to get repaid to your goal.
Sigh.
Okay...I'm not really such a defeatist. Especially on January 2nd!
...and, my commuting partner just blew out his knee (probably an ACL) in a fall in PA. So...I'll have to motivate myself to get back on the bike...no more partner to get me going!

[mimitabby]

Maybe so, but for me, the challenge is to get to 2500 miles...period.

me too.
there are hundreds of ways to compete!

[sbctwin]

How do you actually register for the challenge? I have a bikejournal account, but never actually logged any miles to it. I edited my profile to be public and my team affiliation to Team Estrogen. But, how do you actually register to be included in the challenge...what am I missing? Do I just log my miles and the moderator will keep track of it?

[light_sabe_r]

what am I missing? Do I just log my miles and the moderator will keep track of it?

Sign up here

and set your yearly goal to 2500miles or 4000km

[veekcee]

I signed up.

Boy, oh, boy...what have I done?!? I'll be 50 at the end of this year; I would love to hit the 2500 mile goal by 12/16!

Happy New Year!

[LBTC]

wow, I can't believe I did it, but I did. I signed up, and I did my first 12.13 km (7.54 miles) on the trainer today. That took 25 minutes, and it was not at a hard resistance, or a very big gear. In fact, I was reading my business law text at the time - it's the only way I can read the text and *not* fall asleep!

Anywhoo, Crohn's disease is not going to stop me. I will do my best to reach 2500 miles. I've never managed to count my mileage before, so I have no idea how hard this will be. Hopefully the training months will let me crank up the volume!

Good luck to everyone!!

Hugs and butteflies,
~T~

[Sheesh]

I'm in! I only did about 700 miles this past year, but once Spring arrives, I'll commute by bike again, so that will give me a jump on improving my mileage for this year. Goals are great motivators for me.

[kelownagirl]

Darn, I was only going to make my goal 3000 km this year but ended up jumping in a going for the whole 4000 km instead (2500 miles). I did 2775 km 2006 (April - November) - hope I can find a way to squeeze in another 1000 km. Do I have to do anything else besides do my goal in my profile?