Cycling Forum: What kind of mileage do you ride per week?

I put in about 125 - 150 miles a week.  I commute to work about 4 times a week and usually do a club ride on Saturdays. 

 Like you, I do it for fitness and I really enjoy it.  Every morning when I wake up, I can't wait to get on my bike!

I just started riding road bikes in July after a long layoff from bicycling. I am riding about 3 times a week and average about 22-25 miles at a time. I have done a 40 miler and am going to do a 62 miler next month. I too have a family and live too far from work to commute. I ride when I can. Hang in there. You are doing good.

 

I don't really ride to race, just for exploration, fun, commuting, and fun.  Was that too much fun?  Since I've been getting back into the swing of things I am planning on averaging 100 mpw, with a nice gentle 14 mph average speed.  One week I went crazy and have about 300 miles in a week, but now I'm scaling back and will build back up to several hundred but still looking to average 100 mpw with at least 10 miles on weekdays and at least 20 to 30 mile rides on weekends. 

When I lived in Cali, I was averaging about 80 mpw, with an 16-mile commute (there and back) during weekdays.

CM 

I'm 60 and have been riding all my life. I put in about 150 miles a week now on my road bike. When we retired 4 years ago, I bought a tandem and put my husband on the back. It's the only time he totally trusts my judgement, but then he has no choice! We ride the tandem on weekends. He does the stationary bike (ugh) during the week while I go out and ride the roads. I'm a lifeguard so I swim, too. Biking really helps my endurance. But I love the feeling when I'm flying down the road on my bike!

Started riding again, after a twenty year layoff, about two months ago, currently doing 30+ miles per day with one rest day and a longer ride at the weekend, so managing about 200 miles per week.

Problem is that I am still rusty with gear selection, maintaining cadence et al. And, as a consequence only managing 15mph average, though this has risen from first 10 mile ride taking almost dead on 1 hour.

I have found that sticking at it and not lettinhg those hills that kill your legs affect your concentration has lead to fairly significant improvements. 

I am doing this to ramp up endurance so that I can complete a double marathon in the Alps, and can think of no better or more fun way to begin my training.

Here in Brussels on Sunday was a car free day, and the turnout was amazing, makes me rue all those lost years.

 

Vive le Velo !!!

I do about 60 to 100 a week but every now and then have a bad week like this one where I may only do 40 or so but that's life. I started riding back in the late 80's and bought my first road bike in 1990 and still have it, well the frame and seat post is all that is original but its still a sweet bike that I ride on hills as it has a triple. I also have a new bike I built up my self with some Dura Ace componets  which I'm not really all that thrilled with. I also have a mountian bike I rarely ride. I'm an ex smoker of some 20 years so I'm still rather slow I average between 14 and 15 mph in a somewhat hilly area where I live but my buds all average between 16 and 17 so I have some work to do to get to keep up with the big boy's, its been frustrating but I have shed close to 30 pounds over the summer and its been great. I'm totally hooked and cant wait to get out and ride!

Since I started riding, six weeks ago, I've been averaging 40 miles per week, limited mostly by the time I have available to ride. 

I'd like to get my average speed up to around 15 mph before I start commuting, but once I do that'll add about 45 miles each day.  My ultimate goal is to commute three or four days a week, with occasional recreational rides on the weekends.

I ride 50 to 80 miles per week.  I've done a few centuries but I'm really riding for fitness

I started riding again on 4/30 this year becuase I saw 205 lbs on the scale and I could not run because of my lungs.  Started slow doing Mountain biking 40 to 70 a week, then at the end of May I started doing some Road Biking.  Went to roadbiking full time in July.  Currently riding 100 to 150 miles a week.  Done 1 centery this year and 1 centery weekend(The Hilly Hundred in Indiana) as well as 2 metric centurys.  Bought a New bike (2007Bianchi 1885) on 8/30/07.  Really has improved my riding.  Plan to ride all winter whenever there is no snow or ice.   Plan to do the 24 hour challenge as well as the dairyland dare and the RAIN ride across Indiana next year.  Have averaged over 600 miles August and September.  Looking to hit that total this month as well.  Note: have lost 20 lbs plus so far.

JDCBiking

I ride for fitness and eventually will do some races/centuries, etc...

 Just got back from taking 3 months off due to school, ride 15miles/workout@18mph 5 times this week. Will start out next week adding another loop for 22miles/workout keeping the 18mph and working back to doing 28mile rides @ around 20-23mph average speeds.

 Have a question though- how fast do most people ride during centuries? I'm always afraid I won't have the endurance. I probably could have done one last fall but never felt "ready".

Any tips for getting to that point? Probably joining a club team or doing those long rides to build confidence? Besides that though, how far do you think you should be riding/week as a general rule before doing any of those long distance rides?

I usually put in anywhere from 120-250 miles per week depending on the mixture of MTB and road rides.

 

If I ride all MTB, it is usually 120-160 miles.

 

All road is usually 180-250 miles.

I've just recently got a road bike and i'm in training to cycle across Europe in the summer. www.biketothefuture.org.uk

I try to commute twice a week (60 miles) and cycle about 60 miles on the wkend. I'm reading through all your posts and everyone seems to be averaging 15/16/17 mph! Am I slow?  I average about 12mph. As i say i've been cycling serioulsy for about a month.

I am currently training for multisport racing. I'm quite new to this level of commitment to fitness. Right now I'm trying to ride right around 100 miles/3 rides a week. In addition, I am a full time student and I'm also running 25 miles a week.

I've been trying to get 150 - 175 miles in a week.  I usually do a long ride on Sundays and Wednesdays (my days off, try to do at least 50 miles per ride).  After work on Tues & Thurs, I ride w/ the club, and it's listed as a 'B' ride, but we're usually in @ 19+ mph on a 26-30 mile ride.  If I can manage it, I'll do an easy 26 mile ride after work on Fridays.  If I can get all 5 rides in, it's usually good for 175/week.

This week was about 130 but I average about 85 I'll say. I also travel each week for work and then balance family time also. My goal is more so now that summer is here and the sun is up earlier I ride longer by going earlier in the mornings.

I commute about 80-90 miles per week, thats 5 days a week, rain or shine. I can't drive and there isn't a bus to my work so I dont have a choice, although I Never wake up thinking I dont want to cycle to work!

 I also try to go for at least one ride per week after work. If the weather is good, I'll do about 30 miles (mainly flat) instead of the 6-7 it takes to get home.

And the weekends are used for longer rides (50-60 miles) if im feeling up to it, otherwise I'll do 1 or 2 rides of about  30- 40 miles over more hilly terrain.

With the English weather, this cam mean it's pretty sporadic, I just try to do as much as I can while the sun is out!

I used to do about 50-100 miles a week when I was just commuting but now I've got the bug and am training for a ride to Paris and end up doing about 150-200 miles a week - trying to up that a bit more before the event.

I am getting 100 to 110 a week riding 4 days. Wish i had time to ride everynight, but those pesky adult responsibilities keep dragging me down.

I'm currently between two peak seasons ( I raced hard through the beginning of June, took 1 week off) and am ending a second base building for endurance for late season and fall races.  My mileage is really high for me and this second base building period exceeds my spring base period by about 30% in total mileage and about 25% in total time spent.   Currently my weekly totals are between 275 and 325 miles per week with most rides in the 45-50 mile range plus one near 100 miles once per week (training 5 days per week).  My mileage will decrease beginning this week and I incorporate more quality power workouts and less straight endurance rides.

I live in Racine WI, and I am doing about 16 miles per day four days a week and unfortunatly I do not get out on the weekends. So I get about 64 MPW total.

I am looking for ways to increase that with just commuting.

157.33 miles per week (over the last two months).

Here's how I came up with it...

((551 + 820)  / 61) * 7

Where 551 is miles for June, 820 miles for July, 61 is number of days total in June and July, 7 is days in week.

Looking at Training Center, I rode 33 days out of the 61, so average per ride this summer is 41.55 miles.

I started about 3 months ago with a 35 pound MB.  After 3 weeks I bought my first Road bike (Allez Elite Gerolsteiner '07) and felt in love with the sport. I started just for fun but now I mix the fun with a nice workout.  I ride 50 - 80 miles per week at an average of 16 - 18 mph depending on the route.  Since I live in PR we have a nice mix of flat and hill roads making the experience an enjoyable one.  My goal for the next 3 months is to increase the riding mileage to around 120 mi.  Goal for next year (Feb '09) is to run a three days race around around the island (350 mi).   

El fiebru from PR 

   

I'll throw in my 2 cents.

 I'm a roughly 200 mile per weeker, since I have a 32 mile round-trip commute every day, plus I ride with the wife when she gets home sometimes.  I ride in races almost every weekend (it would be a stretch to say I compete since I get blown off the back quite frequently), and try to get in at least 1 additional mountain climb a week (I live near Golden, so there's a nice hill to climb there).

 

 I'm with unexceptionaracer--I need to find someone to pay me to bike.  I guess I need to be better than a Cat 4 racer though...

 

Oh yeah, and if you really want to do a century, do the Durango 100.  In case anyone was wondering, yet it is uphill all the way from Farmington, NM to Durango, CO.  You'll hate your life.  It actually made the Triple Bypass (awesome bike race from essentially Denver to Beaver Creek Colorado) seem easy.  Do both.  Then do Ride the Rockies.  You'll be a sick climber after that.