May 2016 Bike Bicycle Cycling Challenge

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  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    May 1st 30.4 Miles -- Duration 1:38:59
    May 3rd 15.6 Miles -- Duration 1:10:26
    May 4th 13.2 Miles -- Duration 1:15:39
    May 5th 7.61 Miles -- Duration 1:03:57
    May 6th 5.98 Miles -- Duration 1:21:27
    May 7th 21.23 Miles -- Duration 2:20:54
    May 8th 40.1 Miles -- Duration 2:42:35
    May 10th 20.7 Miles -- Duration 1:26:07

    May Total Miles: 154.82
    May Total Duration: 11:38:37
  • Ohhim
    Ohhim Posts: 1,142 Member
    Did another 34 mile easy ride with friends last night (finishing with some awesome post-ride wings), then got up early for my Friday morning hammerfest. Managed to hold on to the group for our long all-out segment until they went around me and dropped my *kitten* with a mile to go as my 28mph pull wasn't hard enough. Managed to average enough to get me into the strava segment top 10 anyhow (28.5mph) and even notched a top 25 segment for the return leg going the other way (no wind 27mph). On the plus side, those sorts of aspirational group rides are huge plusses for building up my aerobic capacity and wattage output, even though they can be a bit soul crushing at times :)

    5/3 - 21 miles
    5/4 - 13 miles
    5/5 - 4 miles
    5/6 - 4 miles
    5/8 - 33 miles
    5/10 - 33 miles
    5/11 - 58 miles
    5/12 - 34 miles
    5/13 - 25 miles

    Total: 225 miles
    Goal: 500 miles
    Remaining: 275 miles
  • rachelr1116
    rachelr1116 Posts: 334 Member
    5/1 - 10 miles
    5/3 - 3.2 miles
    5/4 - 8.2 miles
    5/7 - 24 miles
    5/10 - 3.2 miles
    5/12 - 5 miles

    Total - 53.6 miles
    Goal - 200 miles
    Remaining - 146.4 miles
  • UmmSqueaky
    UmmSqueaky Posts: 715 Member
    5/3 - 23 miles
    5/4 - 23 miles
    5/5 - 23 miles
    5/6 - 23 miles
    5/7 - 20 miles
    5/8 - 20 miles
    5/10 - 16 miles
    5/11 - 17 miles
    5/12 - 23 miles
    5/13 - 20 miles - cold, windy and rainy on the way in and it's going to be cold and windy on the way home. Not my favorite bah.

    Month to date: 208 miles
    Year to date: 1379 miles



  • puglife456
    puglife456 Posts: 127 Member
    Won't have access to my bike this weekend- womp womp :( hopefully I'll get out to run or walk, though.


    5/1- 30 miles
    5/2- 30 miles
    5/3- 15 miles
    5/5- 30 miles
    5/6- 20 miles
    5/7- 20 miles
    5/8- 30 miles
    5/10- 5 miles indoor
    5/12- 15 miles

    Total: 195 miles
    Goal: 450 miles
    Remaining: 255 miles



  • eddiesmith1
    eddiesmith1 Posts: 1,550 Member
    No ride this am, i needed to pick up items to large for the bike for work (already miss the endorphins from the ride) ....not bad since last night was a latish one out to see Brian Jonestown Massacre and they played for 3 hours
    Plus side after a long while stalled on weight loss (though it has been redistributing as muscle ) I saw my low for the year today and am down over 25 pounds ....25 to go (though I'll accept a little less if it means more muscle less fat)

    May 1 - 21.94km Walk
    May 2nd - 2.46 km Walk
    May 3rd - 32.07km Cycling Commute
    May 4th - 32.05 km Cycling Commute
    May 4th - 3.57km Walk
    May 5th - 31.67km Cycling Commute
    May 5th - 3.85 km Walk
    May 6th - 31.93 km Cycling Commute
    May 9th - 31.69 KM Cycling Commute
    May 9th - 2.47 Km Walk
    May 10 - 31.91km Cycling Commute
    May 11 - 32.5 Km Cycling Commute
    May 12 - 32.18 km Cycling Commute

    Monthly Totals
    Cycling - 256/450km
    Walking- 34.29/150km
  • tcaley4
    tcaley4 Posts: 416 Member
    Running behind to keep on track for hitting my goal. Spring weather and family commitments has me put me behind.

    5/01 - 18.15
    5/02 - 14.22
    5/03 - 14.29
    5/04 - 18.12
    5/05 - 17.97
    5/10 - 14.76
    5/11 - 18.00
    5/12 - 17.97

    April total: 133.48
    Goal for month: 400
    Year to date: 1,351.64

    Jan - 175.9
    Feb - 343.3
    Mar - 353.8
    Apr - 363.4
  • saphin
    saphin Posts: 246 Member
    I'm in again with a goal of 800 km

    2nd May: 41.02 km
    3rd May: 53.63 km
    4th May: 40.09 km
    6th May: 52.07 km
    7th May: 40.81 km
    8th May: 40.35 km
    10th May: 43.78 km
    11th May: 48.86 km
    12th May: 8 km
    13th May: 10 km
    14th May: 45.05 km

    Month to date: 423.66 km

    Year to end Apr: 1,779.48 km
    (Jan: 393.82 km
    Feb: 538.62 km
    Mar: 315.82 km
    Apr: 531.22 km)
  • jlklem
    jlklem Posts: 259 Member
    So I will play...been biking a long time

    All of this can be found on Strava (this is list is from training peaks...Strava gives me more miles for indoor training)

    The miles are wrong(ish) as I get 20 or so miles an hour on the indoor trainer (but I do average 20+ a lot outside)

    Month Time (hours) Distance
    May-2016 30:36:00 574.76
    Apr-2016 76:22:24 1479.56
    Mar-2016 71:50:28 1381.14
    Feb-2016 58:21:04 1108.24
    Jan-2016 61:38:02 1195.11

    Last year I hit 820 hours....15000 miles....580,000 calories just biking. I train with a lot of electronics, power meter, GPS...record everything
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    Nothing spectacular to report, but I'm on track towards my modest goal.
    This weeks cycling so far:
    Mon, 09/05/2016 - 9.7 km to work and back home
    Tue, 10/05/2016 - 14.7 km to work, little detour to enjoy the sunshine on the way home
    Thu, 12/05/2016 - 11.5 km to work and back home

    --> 74.5 km (of 125 km goal for May) done
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    May 1st 30.4 Miles -- Duration 1:38:59
    May 3rd 15.6 Miles -- Duration 1:10:26
    May 4th 13.2 Miles -- Duration 1:15:39
    May 5th 7.61 Miles -- Duration 1:03:57
    May 6th 5.98 Miles -- Duration 1:21:27
    May 7th 21.23 Miles -- Duration 2:20:54
    May 8th 40.1 Miles -- Duration 2:42:35
    May 10th 20.7 Miles -- Duration 1:26:07
    May 14th 31.6 Miles -- Duration 2:14:59

    May Total Miles: 186.42
    May Total Duration: 13:53:36
  • Ohhim
    Ohhim Posts: 1,142 Member
    Just got in a nice easy ride this afternoon as the weather wasn't too ugly and traffic wasn't bad once I got out of my neighborhood. Might do a longer ride tomorrow. Roughly at 50% of my mileage goal by the mid-point of the month, so glad things have picked up this past week.

    5/3 - 21 miles
    5/4 - 13 miles
    5/5 - 4 miles
    5/6 - 4 miles
    5/8 - 33 miles
    5/10 - 33 miles
    5/11 - 58 miles
    5/12 - 34 miles
    5/13 - 25 miles
    5/14 - 20 miles

    Total: 245 miles
    Goal: 500 miles
    Remaining: 255 miles
  • wayneh73
    wayneh73 Posts: 39 Member
    Not a good week for me miles mainly made up of commutes

    May 1-8 228.1 miles
    May 9-15 95.6 miles

    May total 323.7 miles
    Year total 2075
    218 miles ahead of my 5000 miles/yr goal
  • ssbeadlady
    ssbeadlady Posts: 126 Member
    I am in this month for 125 miles.
    5/1 -6.04
    5/4 -7.51
    5/6 - 7.51
    5/7 - 6.04
    5/8 - 6.04
    5/11 -4.31
    5/12 - 4.31
    5/13 -4.31
    5/14 -4.31
    5/15 -5.78

    May Total 56.16
    May Goal 125
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,865 Member
    I'm in for 250 again!

    05/02 - 12.50 miles
    05/03 - 13.00 miles
    05/04 - 12.50 miles
    05/05 - 12.50 miles
    05/07 - 13.00 miles
    05/08 - 12.75 miles...76.25 so far
    05/10 - 12.75 miles
    05/11 - 12.00 miles
    05/12 - 12.00 miles
    05/15 - 12.75 miles...127.75 so far

    Chris
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    So, this was a first, but I actually went out for a bike ride today without the purpose of going anywhere, just for the sake of the ride!
    The weather was too nice to stay inside today, but my running training plan said it was supposed to be a no-run day. Going for a bike ride seemed like a nice solution for that dilemma.

    I had fun most of the way, I'm beginning to see why some people here go for all these long tours :)
    Might just repeat this "ride around for fun" thing, but next time, I need better planning. Like making sure I don't accidentally end up on a mountain bike trail, and maybe buy myself one of those water bottle holders for the frame and a small bag for the handle bar, so that I don't need to bring a backpack.

    Updated cycling for this week:
    Mon, 09/05/2016 - 9.7 km to work and back home
    Tue, 10/05/2016 - 14.7 km to work, little detour to enjoy the sunshine on the way home
    Thu, 12/05/2016 - 11.5 km to work and back home
    Sun, 15/05/2016 - 26.4 km ride

    --> 100.9km (of 125 km goal for May) done
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Main goal for May is a 100 mile Audax in the New Forest (southern England) on May 8th.
    Last big training ride before the event was today - easy week ahead to arrive at the event with fresh legs.

    Today's ride was 73 miles @ 16.5mph, felt good and even had some welcome sunshine at last - April was cold!
    That took me to over 7000 exercise calories for the week.

    Audax done!
    Weather turned hot and the strong wind was a PITA! Although it was a circular route the wind was on my back on the flat, sheltered parts and in my face on the climbs and open moorland sections with no shelter. Never cycled so much on the drops and my poor old neck is killing me now.
    My neck is a bit damaged from repeatedly throwing myself into the scenery and Armco barriers in my misspent youth as a motorcycle racer. :)

    100.6 miles @ 14.7mph in drop-dead gorgeous countryside.

    213.7 miles so far for the month.

    Four rides of varying lengths this week totalling 127 miles. Sunshine and warmer temperatures certainly make a difference!
    340 miles for month so far.

    Entered another Audax event at beginning of June (205km this time) so training hard.
  • Ohhim
    Ohhim Posts: 1,142 Member
    Did a nice easy 50 miler with a neighbor this afternoon. Off to the pool now to cool down. Nice to be a fair bit ahead of pace by the midway point of the month.

    5/3 - 21 miles
    5/4 - 13 miles
    5/5 - 4 miles
    5/6 - 4 miles
    5/8 - 33 miles
    5/10 - 33 miles
    5/11 - 58 miles
    5/12 - 34 miles
    5/13 - 28 miles
    5/14 - 17 miles
    5/15 - 50 miles

    Total: 295 miles
    Goal: 500 miles
    Remaining: 205 miles
  • saphin
    saphin Posts: 246 Member
    I'm in again with a goal of 800 km

    2nd May: 41.02 km
    3rd May: 53.63 km
    4th May: 40.09 km
    6th May: 52.07 km
    7th May: 40.81 km
    8th May: 40.35 km
    10th May: 43.78 km
    11th May: 48.86 km
    12th May: 8 km
    13th May: 10 km
    14th May: 45.05 km
    15th May: 40.97 km
    16th May: 50.99 km

    Month to date: 515.62 km

    Year to end Apr: 1,779.48 km
    (Jan: 393.82 km
    Feb: 538.62 km
    Mar: 315.82 km
    Apr: 531.22 km)
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    May 1st 30.4 Miles -- Duration 1:38:59
    May 3rd 15.6 Miles -- Duration 1:10:26
    May 4th 13.2 Miles -- Duration 1:15:39
    May 5th 7.61 Miles -- Duration 1:03:57
    May 6th 5.98 Miles -- Duration 1:21:27
    May 7th 21.23 Miles -- Duration 2:20:54
    May 8th 40.1 Miles -- Duration 2:42:35
    May 10th 20.7 Miles -- Duration 1:26:07
    May 14th 31.6 Miles -- Duration 2:14:59
    May 15th 12.1 Miles -- Duration 1:25:57

    May Total Miles: 198.52
    May Total Duration: 15:19:33
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,592 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote:
    Review ...
    Distances include cycling + walking
    March: 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
    April: 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
    May: 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
    June: 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    July: 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
    Aug: 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
    Sep: 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
    Oct: 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
    Nov: 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
    Dec: 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
    Jan: 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
    Feb: 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
    March: 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
    April: 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min

    April wasn't a brilliant month for me in terms of exercise ... I had hoped to do one or two longer bicycle rides but sometimes life intervenes in the plans. April ended up being an incredibly busy month with a heavier-than-usual workload at work + assignments due at university + the final steps of my citizenship process. I wrote the citizenship exam and then my ceremony was on April 29 and I am now officially an Australian Citizen! :):)

    May should be a calmer month, although I will be wrapping up the uni course I'm in so there will be work to do for that. Nevertheless, I hope for more kilometres than last May. :)
    _______________________________
    May 1 - 3.8 km (45 min) walking + 40 min on my bicycle on the trainer indoors. It was a windy, rainy, cold day. Winter is upon us.
    _________________________
    Totals:
    May Cycling Outside: 0 km (0 min)
    May Cycling Inside: 40 min
    May Walking: 3.8 km (45 min)
    May Stairs: 0 flights (0 min)
    May Time Total: 85 min = 1 hours 25 min
    May Distance Total: 3.8 km = 2.3 miles

    May 3 - 40 min on my bicycle on the trainer indoors. Wintery out there.

    _______________________________
    Totals:
    May Cycling Outside: 0 km (0 min)
    May Cycling Inside: 80 min
    May Walking: 17 km (200 min)
    May Stairs: 95 flights (76 min)
    May Time Total: 356 min = 5 hours 56 min
    May Distance Total: 17 km = 10.5 miles

    May 14 - 34 km (105 min) cycling outside

    May 15 - 29.4 km (90 min) cycling outside

    Finally getting outside ... but very, very windy.


    _______________________________
    Totals:
    May Cycling Outside: 63.4 km (195 min)
    May Cycling Inside: 80 min
    May Walking: 59 km (710 min)
    May Stairs: 295 flights (236 min)
    May Time Total: 1221 min = 20 hours 21 min
    May Distance Total: 122.4 km = 76 miles

  • wobblybots
    wobblybots Posts: 52 Member
    I'm in again for 450km.

    03/05 - 30km time trial
    05/05 - 30km road race (I came 4th out of 15)
    08/05 - 90km sportive
    11/05 - 30km club spin (it was my turn to cycle with the newbies)
    15/05 - 85km club spin

    Total to date: 265km
  • tcaley4
    tcaley4 Posts: 416 Member
    Weather forecast for this week:
    Monday - 60% chance of rain
    Tuesday - 50% chance of rain
    Wednesday - 50% chance of rain
    Thursday - 50% chance of rain
    Friday - 80% chance of rain
    Saturday - 20% chance of rain

    Sounds like some time on the stationary bike at the fitness center for me.

    5/01 - 18.15
    5/02 - 14.22
    5/03 - 14.29
    5/04 - 18.12
    5/05 - 17.97
    5/10 - 14.76
    5/11 - 18.00
    5/12 - 17.97
    5/13 - 18.36
    5/15 - 33.29

    April total: 185.13
    Goal for month: 400
    Year to date: 1,403.29

    Jan - 175.9
    Feb - 343.3
    Mar - 353.8
    Apr - 363.4
  • eddiesmith1
    eddiesmith1 Posts: 1,550 Member
    Well pretty rotten weather this weekend here (hail,snow,rain with a little sun to tease you. High winds and cold. marginal exercise until this am on the ride to work
    May 1 - 21.94km Walk
    May 2nd - 2.46 km Walk
    May 3rd - 32.07km Cycling Commute
    May 4th - 32.05 km Cycling Commute
    May 4th - 3.57km Walk
    May 5th - 31.67km Cycling Commute
    May 5th - 3.85 km Walk
    May 6th - 31.93 km Cycling Commute
    May 9th - 31.69 KM Cycling Commute
    May 9th - 2.47 Km Walk
    May 10 - 31.91km Cycling Commute
    May 11 - 32.5 Km Cycling Commute
    May 12 - 32.18 km Cycling Commute
    May 13 - 6.04 km Road Cycling (had to do something after driving to work )
    MAy 13 - 2.56 Km Dog Walk
    May 14 - 3.5 km Dog Walk
    May 15 - 3.3 km Road Cycling (in the hail)
    MAy 15 - 2.47 km Dog Walk
    May 16 - 15.78 km Cycling Commute

    Monthly Totals
    Cycling - 281.12/450km
    Walking- 42.82/150km

    I leave town for 5 days thursday night so cycling will go to the back burner. I'm planning on starting C25K while I'm away
  • tristramtrent
    tristramtrent Posts: 257 Member
    edited May 2016
    3/5 5.6 miles indoor
    4/5 5.7 miles outdoor
    5/5 12.88 outdoor
    6/5 10.5 outdoor
    9/5 7.5 indoor
    10/5 10indoor
    11/5 8.5 outdoor
    13/5 7.9 outdoor
    16/5 10 outdoor

    on the "photographing surrounding churches" challenge, snapped up two more. St Mary's Sulhamstead Abbots, and St Mary the Virgin Silchester. Both unbelievably ancient with ancient yews.

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  • Birdgirl2305
    Birdgirl2305 Posts: 6 Member
    We failed to make it to the trail on Saturday, but on Sunday I completed my longest ride to date. Very pleased with that accomplishment! The weather forecast for next Sunday looks fantastic, so we are going to try and hit 50 miles that day.
    • May 1- 23.28 mi
    • May 6- 14.51 mi
    • May 15- 46.14 mi

    total Mileage for May= 84.03

  • SteveCro
    SteveCro Posts: 788 Member
    @ birdgirl - What a great ride, and first time miles!

    My weekend riding didn't go as planned. I wanted about the same to get 50 miles. The only 50 that happened was the temp in mid afternoon with 26 mph winds. Frosted in 30's both nights.
  • jlklem
    jlklem Posts: 259 Member
    Road 2 hours 45 minutes on the trainer on Sat...weather sucked..

    Road 65 miles yesterday...very windy but a good ride, at least it was sunny

    Road the trainer for 45 minutes this morning and just did a 22 mile ride outside
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,865 Member
    I'm in for 250 again!

    05/02 - 12.50 miles
    05/03 - 13.00 miles
    05/04 - 12.50 miles
    05/05 - 12.50 miles
    05/07 - 13.00 miles
    05/08 - 12.75 miles...76.25 so far
    05/10 - 12.75 miles
    05/11 - 12.00 miles
    05/12 - 12.00 miles
    05/15 - 12.75 miles...127.75 so far
    05/16 - 12.50 miles

    Chris
  • UmmSqueaky
    UmmSqueaky Posts: 715 Member
    edited May 2016
    5/3 - 23 miles
    5/4 - 23 miles
    5/5 - 23 miles
    5/6 - 23 miles
    5/7 - 20 miles
    5/8 - 20 miles
    5/10 - 16 miles
    5/11 - 17 miles
    5/12 - 23 miles
    5/13 - 20 miles
    5/16 - 14 miles - Had a comic convention this weekend, so no riding this weekend. Minneapolis Bike Week kicks off today and I had to drive to the dentist before work and so couldn't bike to work, booo. I did get to bike over to a free bike light event and hand out bike lights to passers by.

    Month to date: 222 miles
    Year to date: 1393 miles

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