How many miles do you ride?

[Yemmi530]

Wow, up to 75 miles. Good for you and Yes, there is always Next year. I wish you will have a great race next year. Me, I will take the advise "riding whatever i want" starting out around 15 miles. Hopefully, next year this time I will be able to ride longer "just like your gals" long and fun ride. So, did you gals join a local term or club? So, you can ride with some cycling buddies?

[Kalidurga]

I've never ridden with a club, but I do often ride with women in my area that I've met through this forum. But I also love to ride by myself, it's a great way to just clear my head and escape.

Where do you live, Yemmi?

[Yemmi530]

I live in Fresno, California. And you? I totally agree with you, sometime it is such a great way to clear your mind; some relief from this busiest world. With this type of perfect weather, riding by myself "made me felt good as well". However, I would like to meet up some local cyclist "like a group ride" never try it before but as a group activity, i think i might be a fun ride "if i can caught up :P".

[Kalidurga]

I'm all the way over on the east coast, but there are a lot of TE ladies from California who could probably give you suggestions of groups to look into.

[annielynn]

I made the mistake when I first riding to keep track of the number of miles I was riding. It would always depress me. Now that I have been riding for 2 months I don't keep track of the miles riden but the time that I am out. I love to be on my bike and often think about riding. It is my time and I love it. If you have an hour to ride cool, if you have 30 mins to ride even better. Just being out there is what matter.

In the beginning I was riding about 15 miles at a time last weekend I just completed 30. Both times I felt accomplished. My goal is to complete a metric century by this time next year.

[Owlie]

I started out doing one or two miles to get used to the feel of the road bike when I first got her (I hadn't been on a bike since I was ten). I bumped it up to five or ten after a while, and then have been trying to move up to fifteen or twenty. Then I got the flu, and now doing three miles has me tired. Do what feels right. There's no "should" here. Well, I know I should ride more before winter sets in, but alas, Cleveland's weather, terrible pavement, and school conspire against me...okay, mostly school.

[Lakerider]

Ride as far as you feel like and/or time will allow. My first ride 16 months ago was 2 miles and I really thought I had accomplished something! Well, I had since I hadn't ridden a bike since I was a kid. Now I usually ride between 20-40 with my longest ride being 101. Yesterday I rode 30 and today 70 so I'll call that a 2 day century. Have fun riding!

[redrhodie]

What works for me (and by that, I mean I feel really good) is rides around an hour and a half to 2 hours total. I'm giving lengths of time instead of distances because depending on terrain and conditions, distance can vary so much. I fear overuse injuries from riding more than that, but lots of people love doing longer rides than I do.

I ride 4-5 days per week.