Quote Originally Posted by 7rider View Post
I'm not sure. I bike commuted to work ~3 days/week, and would tack on extra miles to a few of them (turning a 15 mile round trip ride into 25 or so). On the weekends, I'd ride Saturday and Sunday, doing 30-60 miles. Our trip on the BRP was 60-80 miles/day, so it was doing back-to-back long rides on varying terrain that was important (to me, anyway). So the long weekend rides were critical. I wasn't so concerned about speed, jut getting out there. Sometimes, I had to throw the bike on the truck and drive somewhere (like that ride up in the Catoctins where I saw at least 1 24% grade and actually had to walk the bike. That never happened on BRP - even leaving Cherokee.).
This is perfect information for me and helps me know how I need to change my riding schedule. Right now I am riding between 30 and 40 miles split between two rides during the week and generally one longer 40 - 50 mile ride on the weekend.

I need to build up to longer back-to-back rides on Sat and Sun. And this gives me a perfect reason to start commuting to work (24 total miles) once or twice a week in addition to the group ride I want to join.