Annual mileage target? Not gonna make it?

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 3385099, member: 9609"]Give it a go, pm me with a user name and password and I will set it up. you need to upload your routes as individual KML files and that is about it - I'm not really sure what i am doing with passwords so don't send me anything you use for online banking. In fact I am not really sure what I am doing altogether so don't be surprised if it doesn't work properly

I started trying to cycle all the roads in the borders a quite a few years back, but since my map filled up a couple of years ago I haven't been doing as much cycling, in fact this past couple of years I have just been going out pedalling the same circuits over and over again and getting a bit bored with it.
So this is my latest motivation to try and do all the roads in all of the seasons. Odd I know but if it gets me out there :-)[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the offer, that would be great! but ... can i get the kml files from Strava (do you know)? That's how I record my rides.

 

[cosmicbike]

3000 was the target at the start of the year, a couple of 2 week hospital stays put paid to that. Revised down to 2000, only 4 miles to go so all being well...
3k will have to wait until next year..

 

[vernon]

I'm well short of my target but a lot of my miles were quality miles in northern Scotland, northern France, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and the Yorkshire Dales. It's the first year where my touring miles have been greater than my non touring miles.

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

My target was not to get injured or killed.....so far so good

I started out looking for 8000 miles, soon decided I was going to exceed that and made it 10000 miles then in July I had an accident and broke my neck. Last year I tore my lower aorta in an accident, so next year my target is the same as yours, no to injure myself and stay alive.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Started cycling in October 2011, did not bother to record miles until the beginning of this year, so I'd set a random target (forgot how much) that I upped twice.
Gone over it again now, but I'll wait and see before setting next year's.
I would like to maybe to the same milage but faster

 

[derrick]

508 miles to go, should get that by the end of December.

 

[david k]

I smashed my target already, went for 1,000 and up to 1400 I want 1500 before the years out

 

[mustang1]

I thought I'd ride 4500 miles but truth is mcloser to 3000.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Around 3900 so far this year,last year i did 3168. I suppose i was hoping to do 5000 in a year for the first time but over 4000 will do. Next year i'm going to give up this notion of It's only been a good ride if you've done x amount of rides. I now prefer doing steep hills around here over travelling long distances(for me),just for the sake of adding on the miles.

 

[tyred]

You know , when I dragged my winter fixed wheeler out of the garage last month, I noted that the battery in the cycle computer had died over the summer and I still haven't got round to replacing it. It actually feels incredibly liberating to ride without knowing how fast you're going or how far and just concentrate on enjoying riding.

 

[ColinJ]

Agreed. Hilly stuff should get a dispensation. My 5,400km to date includes 102,600m climbing. Or for you pre-decimal fogeys 3,350 miles with 336,000ft of climbing

I typically average 10-12 mph on my hilly rides. It is rare for me to do flat rides, but when I do I average 15-18 mph for the same degree of effort so I reckon my routes should have a fiddle factor of about 1.5. That would put me on about 5,000 miles so far, and about 5,500 by the end of the year.

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 3385889, member: 9609"]not really sure what strava is, I have got it working in Firefox and Explorer. Is Strava something to do with mobile phones ?[/QUOTE]
Yes, Strava will record a map of your ride, and data (speed, climbing, top speed etc(. Users can create 'segments' and compare their performance on that segment (e.g. a hill, a long straight, an entire route, if you like) over time.

Anyway, guess I'd need to find some way of getting the data as a kml file (or map it, which ...I know I won't do consistently). I'll have a think about it, and let you know

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've had a pretty good year on the bike with 3 tours - 2 with Mrs 26 Target was well under control until I felt a bit jaded and eased off - still on shcedule tho'. Then a spell of medical stuff stopped my riding so the target has had to be shelved. All good tho'. Targets help but reality must be borne in mind

 

[simon the viking]

This is the ' not gonna make it'thread, you know

Sorry was just being a bit smug as I missed 3000 by a gnats a**e last year

 

[subaqua]

have hit my target of riding as often as possible with no lame excuses not to. failed hitting this miserably between May and August but now better