Odo mileage

[Starvin' Marvin]

I work my own hours. I do 3 rides during the week of 40 to 50km. On the week end do 90 or a 100 on sat and sunday is my cruise day do a 40km recovery ride. But wind and weather plays a major part of deciding my rides.

[Wyatt Earp]

Awesome stuff, are these road miles ?

[Starvin' Marvin]

Yup I'm a roadie. Still busy getting down to my ideal weight from being a fat bastard

[covie]

lol Dangle if he did 250km off road a week I would be in awe. And seriously jealous.

[Starvin' Marvin]

Did mtb for a couple of months. 75km took 5hrs!!! Almost fell on my back. Had to sell mtb as we have a bambino on the way. Won't have enough time for both bikes. So had to choose.

[Wyatt Earp]

lol Dangle if he did 250km off road a week I would be in awe. And seriously jealous.

I know someone that does between 300 to 450 off road some weeks.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

I know someone that does between 300 to 450 off road some weeks.

 

Phooew, thats hectic.

 

I dunno, I would get bored doing all that riding, I need a lot more to stimulate and maintain my interest than just riding, but yeah, I guess we are all differant, still hectic though.!

[Starvin' Marvin]

Dangle I'm sure that guy that rides those distances has some awesome routes. Our closest decent trail is about 80km from us. And the best trails 150km. So not ideal for me. We used to be able to cycle in the pine forests but darkies have been attacking riders so the route is closed.

[LeTurbo]

My mileage is 11144km on my computer that I've had for just over a year now.

 

Ha! Something to do with my electric drill this weekend!

[Lounge Lizard]

how many of us ran off to see what our clocks say ? I sure did.

 

My road and mtb bike clocks showed 16,008 and 40,795

Can't recall when I last changed batteries and I know I moved my road clock to my mtb (which never had one) when I bought a wireless clock for the road.

 

But I looked in my polar heart rate diary ...fantastic tool ... you can run reports on many aspects.

So, with the combination I extracted the following summary;

Total km 56,803

Road km 45,576

MTB km 11,227

Hrs total 2,428.97

Road hr 1,749.27

MTB hr 679.70

kcal total 977,956

Rd kcal 758,761

MTB kcal 219,195

meter ascent 185,326

Rd ascent 151,834

MTB ascent 33,492

mx spd 112

 

this appears to be almost 4 yrs.

rather a fun exercise...pity fitness is like trying to hold water in your hands...you just gotta keep going or it just disappears..damn

[riaanb]

 

mx spd 112

 

 

 

This is the most impressive number of the lot as far as I'm concerned. Is it real (not on a spinning bike) and if so, where did you do it?

[Lounge Lizard]

This is the most impressive number of the lot as far as I'm concerned. Is it real (not on a spinning bike) and if so, where did you do it?

 

yup - this was stupid - down the front of Ou Kaapse weg

[Starvin' Marvin]

My top speed 102 kmh down fields hill Durbs.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

My top speed 102 kmh down fields hill Durbs.

 

Thats a hectic speed - I was watching yesterday, the guys going down from a "out of cat climb" on a huge mountain in the Vuelta were only touching 85 kmh.

 

Over 100kmh - PHOOEW - thats serious stuff.

[Lounge Lizard]

Normally down the front of ou kaaps I will get 75/85 but it helps if the wind is blowing the right way - and it helps if there is passing traffic. Without actually drafting you can add on 20kmh on downhill from the traffic benefit - a sneaky little direct draft near the top can also contribute - but once the speed picks up its too scary to draft - (can't see the riding surface)

Helps when you weigh 90kg. Not sure now, but I can only pedal to about 65/70 as far as I recall (53/11 gears). Must say, these fast descent are just plain stupid and normally just when dicing a buddy - and ou kaaps has an almost 180 degree turn at the bottom - which just scares the sh!t out of me everytime.

 

Re; more to the point of this thread - 'clock milage' - on the tandem, we only did 1,880 this year (not really a favourite ride for me - but was trying to get wife interested in more riding - needless to say, I did not get any 'leg-over' for weeks on the occasions when the tandem was taken down ou kaaps)

[GrumpyOldGuy]

- but was trying to get wife interested in more riding - needless to say, I did not get any 'leg-over' for weeks on the occasions when the tandem was taken down ou kaaps)

 

Ha,Ha, - yeah, okay, you said it.!