[Closed] 2016 distance cycled - target met?

My annual target is 6000 miles, 145 miles to go and will do that next week easily. I also like to beat the previous years total, so another 28 to do on top of that, again doing that will be a breeze.

Nope!

My cycling's mostly sub 15 mile blasts round the hills, once or twice a week, with an occasional 40-70 mile ride. plus a whopping 5 miles a day commuting. So not doing big miles to start with.

I was ramping up for some big rides in the summer, then spangled my shoulder. 5 month hole.

I set myself the same target. I thought that the arrival of mini-QTip in July might have put a spanner in the works, but thanks to a decent length commute I met my target last month. Up to 11,154 km now. Unfortunately, only 323 of those km have been on the mountain bike.

My aim for next year will be 10,000 km again but with significantly more off-road. I'd love to reach 2015's off-road total of 1500 km but the combination of parental responsibilities and having moved to somewhere with no local trails means that's unlikely.

3000 (miles) was the target, gonna hit it this week probably. Not as much as i'd want but started the year with a 9 month old!

Although i just worked out that it's not that many more miles for a metric 5000 😀

Unsure of my actual total.
A fraction under 5000 miles on Strava which I'll easily get to thanks to the Festive 500.

It would have been 6000 miles had I done LEJOG as planned but I had to pull out of that one. 🙁

I never strava my commutes; I did start keeping a record of them but that soon fell by the wayside. However at 16 miles each way, it's roughly another 800-1000 miles in a year (I don't ride each way every day) plus track cycling which is even more difficult to esitimate - average of 25-30 miles a session is about 500 miles a year but that could easily be out by a fair chunk.

My aim was 4600km, about 100km short but off work from today so shouldnt be an issue. Not a massive target but primarily offroad, and focus on quality not quantity.

Kind of, my target was to commute to work by bike from November 16th 2015, if i did every day i would exceed 10000 miles for the year, but with holiday and daughter being off ill for a period, i clocked 8592 up til that date this year and will have clocked over 10000 by end of this year of the 13 1/2 months.

I'd like to say i felt like i was some sort of awesome athlete now, but after the initial weight loss and increase in aerobic fitness, i've actually just got really good at riding that route at 14-15mph and weight loss plateau'ed

5000km, a 50/50 split of MTB & road.

I'm short, by about 800km, but i've been been badly injured twice & also quite ill later in the year.

I might come close, but the ratio will be out as i'm spending a lot of time on the turbo.

I'll finish the year on around 4500 miles which is quite a lot down on last year's 6000 miles. But I feel better for it and I'm happy that as most of that is commuting I have saved a few quid in fuel costs. Probably haven't offset the increase in food costs though.

I set myself a target of 4000 miles, but I've failed miserably, I should reach 3000 this afternoon.
The climbing is way down too I did 491000 ft last year, I've only done 367000 this year. 🙁

most years I manage 7000 miles. 4 month off the bike curtailed that.
aim to beat 7000 next year.

I put down 10,000 miles on strava on a whim at the start of the year, been playing catchup ever since.

Might just nick 9000 miles by NYE, if I take a couple of long routes in next week and the week after.

I quite fancy a rapha roundel on my bag so I might have a good crack at the festive 500 this year.

Target: 4000 miles
Did 3400 by June, then home/ work got in the way. Now up to 3978 according to Strava.
Hope to get out next week, plus trip to BPW arranged.

Yes, I went passed my target last night 🙂
Wasn't really a strict target, but wanted to increase my hours by 10% which gave a target of 361hrs (which has also taken me just over 5000mi). I should easily make 365hrs to give me an hour a day average before the end of the year.

Next year will be looking for +10% more again which may be slightly harder.

Modest target of 2000 miles, which i'll meet this year for the 3rd year in a row so at least some consistency. I reckon it's about 50% off road too, so not bad.

It's not a hard 'must-do' target though, and it'll be less of a focus next year.

I increased my target from a modest 2000km to a slightly less modest 3000km.

I'll end up on 2500km ish.

I need to ride my bike more...

I don't measure mountain bike rides - they're all about fun.

I do, however, aim to cycle home from work (25 miles) 50 times each year. I'm on 48 and hope to get the final two next week.

Target was 12K, will struggle to hit 10K - need another 450km. Possible, depending on motivation over the next 2 weeks. Lowest total for a few years but I didn't do any big events this year.

Mallorca 312 entered for April 2017 though... that's motivating me.

I aimed to have fun. Despite some other aspects of my life being a bit stressful this year, I managed. So yeah, I hit my target despite being off the bike for a month and restricted to road only for another month.
4982 Strava miles so far this year. And they're the only ones that count, right?

3000 mile target.

Currently at 2800 with a very busy two weeks coming up.
I'm going to try, but don't think i'll make it - ultimately spending time with the wife/kids is more important than hammering out empty miles to chase a total that only matters to me.

However cycling might help keep the Christmas weight gain at bay..

Was really on target until early Oct when I had a nasty cold which kept me off the bike for a couple of weeks, followed by working away a lot in Nov.

Next year the target will be 3000 again - not sure I can do much more with my job/family commitments.

Have done over 10,000Km for the past three years but have only just got over 9000Km for this year. Not sure of the split - I noted the distances for each bike at the end of last year but those are at home but at a guess I've done more off-road this year.

If I commuted by bike every day then 10,000Km would be done and dusted but I think it would wear me down.

Edit: on a 2017 targets thread on the BB forum someone mentioned doing a (imperial) century ride every week - that's got to be hard work.

Nope. Not even close. Wife got ill at the start if the year meaning I've not been out nearly as much as I hoped. I wanted 5000 miles, I might scrap 3000.

Debating a crack at the festive 500 but fear I'll not get close to that either.

Jesus wept - how do you lot do it? I thought I was a machine, yet I'll barely break 4k miles this year and that's pretty much all commuting. Anything 6k+ deserves a medal!

I've done 45 miles!

Should reach 2300-2400 on 'offroad' miles - no commutes or road rides allowed! Was aiming for more than 2000 so reasonably happy.

Incidentally, wouldnt have even considered counting if strava didnt do it for you

@Flange

Of my 9000 about 120 are off road. I do 200 (mostly junk) miles commuting per week, With the odd structured training session on the way in.

Need to do more of that, I'm not getting any faster or thinner at the moment. To sketchy for zone 5 efforts in the dark though.

5200 target, 4506 actual YTD. Baby due 2 days ago... there's probably not much more in it for me! Slightly more than last year, but down on 6 year average. 🙁

I'm very gutted! I set a target of 2000 off road miles for 2016 and I look set to hit around 1900. Tempted to drag the road bike out to hit the number, but that would be cheating. I am definitely going to hit the number next year. But will have to raise the target as I am planning on starting road again next year

@flange - most of my weekend off-road rides are long XC rather than doing a loop round the local trail centre so it's not too hard to do. My commute is 21Km each way so a week of that is 210Km but more likely 168Km as I'll only ride four days. During summer two rides adding up to 200Km at the weekend (one will likely be road), the distance soon mounts up. This time of year 160Km per week is fine.

Might make 3,500 miles by the end of the year, against a target of 5,000.

Much less commuting and fewer audax events account for the drop. Actually hit my MTB target of 50 miles per month.

Didn't have any target this year.
Sitting just under 11,000 km so far.
Only done 700km on the road bike and 2,500km on the CX bike (mostly a commute with muddy bits). The rest all on various MTBs.
Doing the Tour Divide definitely helped with the total!

4000km target and I'm about 3500 and a good bit. A shoulder injury has kept me off the bike for a while, I'm just trying to see where I can fit in the last few hundred kms.

the year's not finished yet! generally we do normally have a thread up comparing strava stats a few days before nye. 🙂

Aim was to ride more than last year, which I've done. Only 1100km but all off road and I don't commute. Quite a lot of it has been with my kids, hopefully we'll add to it on Sunday if No1 has recovered from his cold.

I don't measure mountain bike rides - they're all about fun.

All my rides are about fun*, I enjoy them all, if I didn't then I'd stop riding.

[i]*my definition of fun might be different from other :)[/i]

currently 4527/5000. it's not going to happen

Didn't have a target but I hit 10,000 for the year at glentress on Tuesday. I've ridden more road this year but still only 1200, the rest is on a mountain bike. Rode just over 10,000 last year too.

VeloViewer is great for geeking out! Currently on 10,098km/192,000m in 687 hours. Longest ride was last 'day' of the highland trail 550. 300km/7100m in 35:30

I set a target of 5000km. As of this morning I'd ridden 4437km, so not looking like I'll achieve my goal.

After years of tri's, my target was to ride more for fun and to improve MTB technique on steeper stuff and jumps.

Have ridden more - tick
Have no idea how far - tick
Have enjoyed it - tick
Better technique -tick

So good year all in all despite one bad off.

This year, I had a target of 10'000 mile but lots of lurgy and stress at work curtailed that. Currently on 9050. I did hope to do 50% offroad on MTB and CX and its about 75% according to veloviewer so, happy with that.

Wow, some big mileages here

Currently on 3,485 miles

I'm short about 500-700 miles though as not all rides are recorded during the year

Mostly commuting, all rides are fun though!

Currently looking at 6,000km. That's all "leisure" cycling, no commuting, and the vast majority of it off-road.

I've done 10,000km before but that included a lot of road riding, commuting and a LEJOG.

Targets - no big crashes, ride my bike enough to stay fast enough, improve skills, have fun. Success!

Did 3745 miles last year and aimed for 4000 this year, but as of the end of today I'll be at 3703 miles. Will be beat last year's total, but only just!

My target was based on 50 miles a week on average, so 2600 miles. I hit that at the end of November. Around half mtb, half gravel bike.
I don't know where I'd find the time to do much more than that, tbh.

No distance target, have done about 4,500km so far though - mixed on/off road.

Did have a climbing target, but can't remember what it was.

😳

On 108,923m at the moment, so let's say it was 110,000m yeah?

The number of kilometres/miles is pretty arbitary as it doesn't take into account what type of riding so it is not something I particularly bother about.My targets are more race related and on that score I did OK in most of the races I entered and got on the podium a few times. The cross season didn't go quite as well as last year as I missed the first few rounds and so started my first race gridded at the back and spent the rest of the race series gradually getting a start further forward but I did manage a third and fourth place in two one off races. But seeing as there is a thread about distance I went and looked on Strava and have managed 2000km more this year already than last year with the current total at just under 13000km.

Blimey, some real mile eating here.

I didn't set a target, I'm at 3000km, 2800km of which is off road and about 500km off road on the tandem. No commuting so all just out playing.

40km of climbing.

My target was 10,000km too and i passed it on Wednesday morning, a good feeling.

I have targeted and passed 12,000km in previous years but I found I was doing a lot of junk miles* just to hit the target.

So this year i focused on more quality rides rather than quantity. I think I achieved that balance with some monster (250km) rides as well as two trips to the alps (one MTB and one road) and three days riding in Italy in June.

*junk miles in this instance meaning times I rode just to meet the target, I wasn't benefiting from the riding in that it wasn't making me fitter, in fact it was wearing me out. I wasn't even enjoying the ride either.

This just meant cycle commuting to work three or four days a week rather than four or five days a week.

EDIT: not bad for a 52 year old

On the MTB - 6700 last year.

This year no target - 4800 currently . Will probably get to 5000 miles.

Just a lot more under-weather this year plus work etc.

Happy with that.

Current Strava figures for 2016:

Distance 8,881.1 km
Time 505h 10m
Elev Gain 125,767 m

So 119Km to get to 9K - actually knock 42Km off that as I rode into work today so 77km.

Probably 1800Km of that total was on various ITTs.

No target set, but, well, nowhere near what I wanted.
Started off well.
Then head kinda went pop.
Struggled all year with health ( both mine and my Mum) and never really got out of the darkness.
Still sat with the Black Dog now.
Here's hoping 2017 is a better one, and I can set some goals that I stick too.

Was hoping for 8000km and reached 9000 this morning.
Very pleased.

i have about 150 miles left of the 4000 aimed at. Might just do it.

As my workplace is 25 miles away, with 2 steep climbs in the last 4 miles, I only commute a couple of times a year. This means that my previous annual distance record is 1500 miles.

Despite not having commuted at all, this year, and having a slack start & finish to the year, I've already exceeded that distance and should break the 1600 mile mark easily.

Given that I'm an overweight 54 year old desk jockey, I'm quite pleased with that.

Got touring trips and a challenge ride planned for next year, so have a target of 2000 in mind.

As my workplace is 25 miles away, with 2 steep climbs in the last 4 miles, I only commute a couple of times a year

Sounds perfect! Mine's 50 miles into London. I drive part way and ride the rest a couple of times a week through summer.

1000 km down on my target of 12000 km. Not so bad given a miserable year. Aiming for 400 km/week over the winter months as a good base. That includes 150 km/week at race pace. Off road distance is not huge.

Target 2000 miles. To date 1475.1 all off road. 3 falls, 1 broken finger, more fun than last year so all in all a great year. Will probably complete another 150 over Christmas.

New tourer arrived in March, have managed just over 2000 miles since then.

I can't stop riding the bloody thing, even after a 12 hour shift I have to take it for a spin round the block.

Combined with a couple of bimbles a week over to Barley for lunch and a couple of trips away, job's a good 'un.

Haven't done this many road miles since I was in my teens.

Not telling you the average speed.
Double figures, but only just.
😐

I did 11,000km, just, last year so set a goal of 12,000 this year. Past that a few weeks back and should make 13k by the end of next week.

Quite heavily road biased commuting most days and the fact that I live in the off road hotspot that is Leicestershire but still manage a good chunk of mtb.

I'm stealing THM's list...

Have ridden more - hmmmm probably not if I'm honest
Have no idea how far -Not true, 1,200ish miles
Have enjoyed it - tick
Better technique -tick

yep, all good.

Tend not to put down a target for miles. I now people who do but they end up doing flat boring miles on local loops just to make up distance.

My targets were to ride new places, do a very long ride, do some racing and ride more mtb.

Done some good new rides, went to Corsica, managed one 700km ride in June, raced a fair bit, didn'd do as well as last year but got a podium in a 3/4 and a few more in the "roadbike catagory" of the local time trial league.

Road race season ended prematurely on the tarmac in a 35mph crash during a sprint. Didn't do enough mtbing.

reasonable year, not as good as 2015. 12000km on strava but you can add another 3000km to that as commuting which I don't record.

Next year I'm all about the hill climbs as the national championship are local. Otherwise less racing and more mtbing. Trip to France in summer too.

3,681/5,000 km according to strava, probably recorded around 95% of my riding this year as I had set myself that target, but I was behind anyway, it was only a lose target so while a little disappointed it is no big deal. No road riding this year, but probably around 10% turbo miles.

Kind of went of the rails a couple of months back when my bouncy bike was stolen. The quality of some of the riding I had done up to that point was really good though and I was really happy with that.

4536 of 5000 miles done this year so I don't think there's much chance of me making that target but I'm still up on last years distance.
Sadly they are mostly commuting and weekend road riding miles.

Never have a target,but whatever it is at the end of this year I am defo going to change to metric ,just so it feels moreawzum 😉

I should make 5000 miles after the festive 500.

Minipips will have done 4700, including 6 century rides (one off road) and a double century.

Done about 2700 miles with no mark to aim for. Gonna try for 5000 next year I reckon, when I think back through the year there really is dozens of time I should have went out but gave it a miss for whatever reason.
Being a bit of a fair weather rider it is a wee bit grim to think of the amount of times during summer I really should have went out but never bothered, especially now it's cold and dark so early and motivation is pretty low...

I'm still almost 500 miles off my initial target of 3000 miles but I can't complain. A stupid off in January resulted in a broken patellar and torn tendons so I never really got going until April and then the last 6 weeks I've missed with a kidney infection. 4000 next year should be a doddle if I stay injury free.

Gonna try for 5000 next year

Being a bit of a fair weather rider

are not really compatible 🙂

I'm about 100km down on last year, probably not helped by having July off after Mayhem solo, a 3rd child and the wife's gran being in and out of hospital.

But in the plus side I came 9th solo at mayhem, got my first xc podium and I'm set to finish 11 places higher in the cyclocross league I race in, with a firm 25th. So something worked!!

12,345 miles so far, I think I will pass 14,000 before the year is done. How many of those is actually on a MTB...very little. Lots of racing on the MTB this year but very little actual "out riding trails".

March to October all guns blazing then the cold months to top it up is the tentative plan...

12,345 miles so far, I think I will pass 14,000 before the year is done.

You're going to do 1,655 miles in the next 14 days?

Ahhh no I mean 13,000! 1655 in 14 days would be good though, imagine the Christmas fuelling opportunities.

My target this year was to climb into space so 100Km up. Just 2Km to go.

Around Spring time my target was looking like it could possibly be 6000 miles, but then a sense of reality kicked in so I lowered it to 5000 and expected to smash it. Currently at 4600+ miles - not far short of 7500km. Mostly on 26" HT which I use for commuting (40 miles min per week) a few longer road rides, and about 1300 miles on the 26" FS. Probably won't make 5000 miles as had decided to take it easy this month.

Edit: some stats from Golden Cheetah:
194 miles in rides tagged Race (XC)
413 miles in rides tagged Roads without any xc (excluding commutes)
442 miles in rides tagged Z1
2760 miles in rides tagged Commute

imagine the Christmas fuelling opportunities.

Don't think there would be much time for eating 🙂

802 miles - a piffling 802! Absolutely pathetic! I am going to stand in the corner and have a few stern words with myself...