May 2018 Biking Cycling Bicycling Bike/ Bicycle/Unicycle/Tricycle Challenge!

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Machka9
Machka9 Posts: 24,861 Member
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If you are new to posting on this thread, or if you are new to cycling, We welcome you! If you are returning from a previous thread, We welcome you, too.

This thread is for anyone who rides a bicycle ... or unicycle, tricycle, tandem, etc.

Do you bike to work? Do you pull your children to the park? So you ride weekends? Do you spin, at home or the gym? Do you race crits, ironman, or centuries? Or, are you just starting out and remembering how much fun you had biking when you were a kid? However you choose to push your pedal, you are welcome on this thread.

There's no set challenge across participants - this is a mixed-ability / mixed-experience / everyone welcome group. Just pick your own target that you want to achieve this month, post that when you join the thread, and post updates throughout the month as you're working towards your target.

Let's get going in May!
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  • AgileK9
    AgileK9 Posts: 257 Member
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    I'm not sure what to set my goal at for May. The weather is usually pretty wet this time of year so the trails may not be ride-able. I do like to get out on my mountain bike at least twice a week, also to offset the cost of a full suspension bike ;-) . I ride single track and some technical trails but I'm still pretty new to the sport. I'm in Billings, MT. I also just bought a new bike that will work on both road and single track so I'm excited to get that this week and be able to ride on the roads/paths when the trails are wet.
  • garystrickland357
    garystrickland357 Posts: 598 Member
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    I'm happy to find this thread. I'm an older roadie that just stopped riding one day - and overate and got fat. I guess that's why I'm back to MFP... At one time I would ride 150 miles a week - that was back then.

    Now I'm trying to get back in the saddle. Right now I'm riding 30-40 minutes 3x a week. Depending on wind, that's 5-6 miles or so. I want to get back to being able to knock out a 12-15 mile loop from my house.

    My goal for this month is 100 miles.
  • huskydoo
    huskydoo Posts: 112 Member
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    Man it’s nice to see more mountain bikers in this thread!

    Finally the weather has broke here and I can set a monthly goal.

    So for May I am looking at 50 trail miles and 50 road miles
  • huskydoo
    huskydoo Posts: 112 Member
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    By the way, May is National Bike month in the US

    https://bikeleague.org/bikemonth
  • missjoany
    missjoany Posts: 5 Member
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    I have an upcoming challenge in June for Cancer Ride for Kids. This would help me achieve my goal of 26 miles in one month. I ride a recumbent bike due to hip issues, and this will be a challenge for me. I rode 1.2 miles today, working towards 1.5 miles at a time.
  • huskydoo
    huskydoo Posts: 112 Member
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    missjoany wrote: »
    I have an upcoming challenge in June for Cancer Ride for Kids. This would help me achieve my goal of 26 miles in one month. I ride a recumbent bike due to hip issues, and this will be a challenge for me. I rode 1.2 miles today, working towards 1.5 miles at a time.

    Keep pedaling! You will make it !
    1.2 miles is a whole lot better than sitting on the coach
  • SusanMcMc
    SusanMcMc Posts: 252 Member
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    I like to join in. I’m a 40 something WAHM that likes to bike to get from here to there around my small college town. Nothing fancy. Just riding with my kids to school and to run errands mostly. Sometimes just for the fun of it. I have an old Raleigh hybrid I nabbed off of Craig’s list for $100. It’s in my LBS right now getting new tires and a spring spiff up. I can’t wait to get it back on a Friday in time for our mayor,s bike ride.

    I do have dreams of working up to doing a longer organized ride (50 miles maybe) or committing to doing 80% of errands via bike. Oh and I’m currently coveting a rack a panniers to get the groceries off my back but then I wondering if I’m just being a consumerist chump. Any recommendations?

  • jlklem
    jlklem Posts: 259 Member
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    Goal for the month is 70 hours. Got three races this weekend so starting with a taper week which is going to make 70 hard but planning on a 500 mile week in late May if the weather holds.

    Almost 300 hours for the year so far

    John
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 24,861 Member
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    Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking + a bit of running)
    Mar-15 … 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
    Apr-15 … 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
    May-15 … 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
    Jun-15 … 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    Jul-15 … 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
    Aug-15 … 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
    Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
    Oct-15 … 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
    Nov-15 … 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
    Dec-15 … 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
    Jan-16 … 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
    Feb-16 … 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
    Mar-16 … 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
    Apr-16 … 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
    May-16 … 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
    Jun-16 … 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
    Jul-16 … 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
    Aug-16 … 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
    Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
    Oct-16 … 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
    Nov-16 … 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
    Dec-16 … 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
    Jan-17 … 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
    Feb-17 … 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
    Mar-17 … 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
    Apr-17 … 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
    May-17 … 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
    Jun-17 … 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    Jul-17 … 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
    Aug-17 … 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
    Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
    Oct-17 … 647.1 km (402.1 miles) = 57 hours 19 min
    Nov-17 … 427.0 km (265.3 miles) = 50 hours 4 min
    Dec-17 … 553.5 km (343.9 miles) = 52 hours 12 min
    Jan-18 … 590.2 km (366.7 miles) = 57 hours 49 min
    Feb-18 … 826.9 km (513.8 miles) = 57 hours 35 min
    Mar-18 … 582.01 km (361.6 miles) = 50 hours 11 min
    Apr-18 … 176.23 km (109.5 miles) = 29 hours 47 min

    My goals all fell apart in late March for reasons out of my control. I don't know how May is going to go, but I'm hoping to start to pick up my fitness pieces.

    For a start, I've signed up for a 5K run at the end of the month. A little goal.

    And I've got some plans for more indoor cycling as winter comes on.
  • AgileK9
    AgileK9 Posts: 257 Member
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    Saturday is Official Women's Mountain Bike Day. So if you are a mountain biking woman, go ride, or men, take a woman mountain biking on Saturday B)

    https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20067613/imba-international-womens-mountain-bike-day/
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,811 Member
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    Main thing for me in May is my 92 mile charity ride on the 13th.

    Up to the first weekend (maybe Monday too...) I'll doing plenty of riding, especially hills.
    Then it's tapering down the mileage and intensity, cutting out caffeine until the day (I'm a low caffeine responder so need to go from almost zero to loads to get any discernible benefit on the day) and supplementing with beetroot shots (because pink wee is fun?).

    But main activity in the week before the ride is watching the ever changing weather forecast as that will make or break the day as regards actually enjoying the ride.
  • huskydoo
    huskydoo Posts: 112 Member
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    What a way to start May! 80 degrees yesterday and 80 today. 2 weeks ago we had snow and freezing rain.

    7 mile road ride tonight against 20 mph sustained winds.
    Looks like Friday will be nice for a trail ride after work. Maybe Saturday too

    Road miles: 7
    Trail miles: 0
    Total miles: 7
  • awinner_au
    awinner_au Posts: 249 Member
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    Im in again, ill target 600Km again, starting to get cold round here. Getting tougher to get out the door in the morning. 3hrs/72km so far this month.

    Ive created a cycling thread in fitness and exercise as this challenge gets reset every month. I thought it might be useful to have a ongoing thread to discuss cycling.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10664558/cycling-bikes-indoor-outdoor-etc#latest
  • TriPaulCantRun
    TriPaulCantRun Posts: 50 Member
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    garystrickland357 wrote: »
    I'm happy to find this thread. I'm an older roadie that just stopped riding one day - and overate and got fat. I guess that's why I'm back to MFP... At one time I would ride 150 miles a week - that was back then.

    Now I'm trying to get back in the saddle. Right now I'm riding 30-40 minutes 3x a week. Depending on wind, that's 5-6 miles or so. I want to get back to being able to knock out a 12-15 mile loop from my house.

    My goal for this month is 100 miles.

    I'm sure that you'll be doing your old loop by the summer. Good luck!
  • AgileK9
    AgileK9 Posts: 257 Member
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    Just a short ride last night. My friend brought her dogs so we don't go quite as far on those nights.

    May 2 - 5 miles trail

    Hoping to pick up my new bike tomorrow or Saturday. I can't wait for more biking options.
  • Ardael
    Ardael Posts: 245 Member
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    My Goal for May is to start winning races on the track and keep my 1st place in my local TT League. For that my coach has given me a plan, so the sub goal is to be able to stick to that plan as much as possible.

    1. 28km - 53 min ( intervals ) - Zwift
    2. 27km - 45min ( racing ) - Velodrome
    3. 30km - 55min ( racing ) - Zwift

    Interval sessions : 1/18
    Racing sessions : 2/8
  • can111
    can111 Posts: 63 Member
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    huskydoo wrote: »
    What a way to start May! 80 degrees yesterday and 80 today. 2 weeks ago we had snow and freezing rain.

    7 mile road ride tonight against 20 mph sustained winds.
    Looks like Friday will be nice for a trail ride after work. Maybe Saturday too

    Road miles: 7
    Trail miles: 0
    Total miles: 7

    Huskydoo - you must live in michigan! that is my exact weather.
  • can111
    can111 Posts: 63 Member
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    I bike trained quite a bit last summer (1,200 miles) and then rode a 5 day 300 mile event over Labor Day. after that ... i was quite a slug! Now I feel like I am starting over. Why oh why did i do so little over the winter!! I would like to do the event again but this time doing their harder route! This route is 330 miles with more hills. Four 70+ mile days and the last day is a shorter 50 miler. I am wondering if i can handle this! Well i have to start somewhere and i rode 30 miles in April and have had 1 May ride for 9 miles (it was windy and warm and so hard!). I really need to get 200 - 300 miles in May.
  • AgileK9
    AgileK9 Posts: 257 Member
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    can111 wrote: »

    Huskydoo - you must live in michigan! that is my exact weather.

    I'm from Michigan. I lived there almost all of my life then moved to Montana in 2012. I grew up in Northville but lived in Redford, Tecumseh, Grass Lake and lastly Dansville before I moved. It's still home to me!

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