Plenty of 'pootle' rides with my partner, or me cycling to my partners work to meet her for lunch of which I don't upload to Garmin and add to my yearly mileage total.
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PaulSB
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
It's been a decent year though mileage is deliberately down on the silly target of 7500 miles I chased in 2020. So 2021 saw me ride 5734 miles with 260,000 feet of climbing. Weather and illness restricted me to only 13 rides in November/December which means I was at least 7/8 short which would have put me on 6000+ which I would have been very happy with.
Highlight of the year was The Fred Whitton Challenge - one of the best routes I've ever ridden, a point nobody ever makes. Tough yes but outstanding route.
Highlight of the year was The Fred Whitton Challenge - one of the best routes I've ever ridden, a point nobody ever makes. Tough yes but outstanding route.
I don't visit people.
I go to the supermarket in the car so that I can bring the shopping back.
The post box is literally right outside my front gate. Not that I ever send anything in the post anyway.
It literally takes a couple of seconds to open Strava on my phone, click "Start" and slip the phone back into my pocket. No hardship. Even for a "casual ride", however that is defined. All my rides are casual.
alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
I try to record an accurate record of how much I've ridden. If you don't include all your rides it isn't accurate. But, having said that, I don't usually bother with anything that's going to be under a mile.
People are all different. If you have a weekly/monthly/annual 'mileage target' then recording absolutely every single ride helps a bit.
It was data recording and navigation of routes that got me into cycling "bigtime" in 2018. If you want to just hop on your bike and ride, that's great and fine. It's all good.
Me? I want data and technology too. (Although my fellow clubmates on the C ride do take the piss if I mention air density
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I use a Garmin GPS for navigation on unfamiliar routes and just as a bike computer on more familiar ones. For very short local shopping rides I don't bother with the GPS. I know the distances of those loops, am not bothered about seeing my speed or the time on those, and don't want to risk forgetting to remove the GPS when I go into the shops.
I write a very brief summary of every ride in my diary. A typical one might be "6 km, 2 hills, Lidl & Metro - singlespeed". Since Shaun cloned MyCyclingLog I have started copying the details over to that.
I round distances to the nearest km and would include a 1 km ride. To my way of thinking, either don't bother keeping track of your distances, or track all of them. I can't see any point in logging just some of them.
My cousin signed me up for Strava but I didn't like it and stopped using it as soon as he went home after our holiday!
- Location
- Inside my skull
Is a hydrocele what you have inside an e bike battery?
You can have mine for nowt it's a flipping nuisance.Well, last year I didn't know what a hydrocele was. I wonder what else I'll learn this year.
vickster
Legendary Member
Get yourself a BMX, no sitting down
- Location
- Inside my skull
Get yourself a BMX, no sitting down
Well until he lands on his arse attempting a jump in the skate park
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Happy New Year and 👏 I bet 3,861 is more than the average 20year old does
As I and the GLW cycle for practical reasons and because we enjoy / prefer it to driving when possible, 
we can't be bothered to record any particular mileage. We just go out and ride. Occasionally we may roughly tot up how far we've done on a particlar day out, but apart from that, nowt - !
Thus we don't know or care how far we've done in any particular time period - !
we can't be bothered to record any particular mileage. We just go out and ride. Occasionally we may roughly tot up how far we've done on a particlar day out, but apart from that, nowt - ! Thus we don't know or care how far we've done in any particular time period - !
PaulSB
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Apart from possibly a casual ride I don't do any of the things you describe.
I'm not really sure what you mean by a casual ride. All my riding is a combination of sport, exercise, hobby, socialising and competing with myself to get better. For some of those points it's important to me to record my activities.
If I did utility rides as you describe I would still record those as I have an interest in knowing my total annual mileage. A passing interest nothing more.
Bike Tyson
Guest
How could you possibly know who records what on Strava, so you are actually annoyed at something you made up in your own head and projected onto others!
