2024 Cycling Challenge

wendsg · December 2023

Here we are, our third year running! Or, more appropriately, pedaling!

Like cycling? So do I! This challenge is a simple one - ride 2024 miles in 2024!

Type of cycle? Doesn't matter. Indoor, outdoor, don't care. As long as it has pedals (whether for feet or for hands) and wheels (virtual or real), it counts! Peleton? Zwift? Road? Mountain trails? Rouvy? Recumbents? Handcycles? e-Bikes? All are welcome!

Links to Strava or another fitness app are encouraged to keep each other motivated and show what we're up to.

Kicking off on January 1st, 2024.

Sett2023 · December 2023

Hello, everyone!
New to this challenge. I usually only walk, but I always liked cycling. For years, we went everywhere on bike (little town), and on Sundays we used to do pleasure trips in the country, but every year traffic is more horrible and so we almost quit. Then I saw this challenge and thought “What?! I want, I want, I want!”, so I dusted off my (very old, very battered - obviously no Strava nor tracker nor anything) cyclette and here I am: out there’s traffic, in house no 😊

Counting in kilometres, so my total would be
2024 miles = 3257,312 kilometres
(have no idea if it’s reachable, for me, but let’s have fun in any case 😊 )

Anyway, I started off 5 days ago to warm up, and oh, that was good! I'm soooo thrilled

(Sorry for my English: as you have surely noticed, that's not my first language.)

Onewomanswalk · December 2023

HI! What the heck, am I up for this? I haven't been on a bicycle for let's just say numerous years. I got an e-bike for Christmas and am rehabbing a new knee so I hope to be on the bike in a few weeks. I'm also retiring mid-year!! What a great way to start out this new chapter of my life. Approx. 40 miles per week will be tough at first, but I think it is doable.

wendsg · December 2023

@Sett2023 Hey, English not being your primary language isn't anything to apologize for - I typically am apologizing for being a single-language pleeb.

Welcome to the challenge! I do hope you have a good time!!

@Onewomanswalk Welcome to the challenge!! Pardon me while I sit and simmer in envy over new e-bikes - while I've got more than enough bikes in my garage, I've always been fascinated by them (and recumbents, shhhh). I hope you have a grand time with this challenge!

Sett2023 · January 1

Three two one… gone!

I'll go with the average suggested by internet, that is 20 km/hr. So:

January 1st, Monday: 62 minutes, kms 20.

Total progress: kms 20/3257,312
See you tomorrow

wendsg · January 1

First ride of the year, and it was a good ol' Zwift meetup! Love riding with this group.

Ride - 39.01 miles
Previous - 0.00 miles

Total - 39.01 miles / 2023 miles

Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/10475069895

Onewomanswalk · January 1

Nothing like starting the year off with a ride. Envious and happy for you!

ashleycarole86 · January 1

Hi all! Back for year three of this challenge.
2022: completed
2023: fell short (901.24/2023 miles completed)
2024: LET'S GO!

I am riding later today so I'll be back with an update.

ashleycarole86 · January 2

Jan 1:
30 min Power Zone Endurance Pop Ride (Peloton) - 9.05 miles

Sett2023 · January 2

[I go with the average suggested by internet, that is 20 km/hr. So:]

January 1st, Monday: 62 minutes, kms 20
January 2nd, Tuesday: 92 minutes: kms 30 (it's addictive

)

Total progress: kms 50/3257,312

SavageMrsMoose · January 2

Hello! I’m back again for the challenge!

2022. 2022 KM, ran two marathons so I couldn’t quite get in the mileage on the bike. Not enough hours in the day or energy in my body
2023. Success! But only did two half marathons….
2024. Back again- going yo try for both 2 full marathons and 2024 miles

I’m 12 days out from the Houston Marathon so I’ll start the year slow…I do 99 percent of my miles on the Peloton, but might venture out on the streets this year

wendsg · January 2

@ashleycarole86 Welcome back!! I know you'll crush it this year.

@SavageMrsMoose Welcome back to you as well!! I do hope you succeed, especially with doing full marathons. Wow, is all I have to say to that!

Today was an easy day - it was a 'recovery from the New Year festivities' ride for my meetup today, as well as riding to and from the pool (it's bitterly cold (feel free to laugh all of you who live in snowy climates, but for a lady used to extreme heat 40F/4.5C is terrible), but at least it isn't soggy).

Ride 1 - 1.73 miles
Ride 2 - 1.70 miles
Ride 3 - 11.01 miles
Previous - 39.01 miles

Total - 53.45 miles / 2023 miles

Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/10479611101
https://www.strava.com/activities/10480171056
https://www.strava.com/activities/10480759633

ashleycarole86 · January 3

@wendsg As someone from a very cold place, I don't ride outside in that weather myself, so way to go!

Jan 2:
30 min Power Zone Endurance Motown Ride (Peloton) - 8.57 miles

Previous: 9.05 miles
MTD: 17.62 miles
Remaining: 2006.38 miles

Sett2023 · January 3

@SavageMrsMoose wowwww, congratulations for your marathons/half and everything, you're great!

And now, my humble performance

[I go with the average suggested by internet, that is 20 km/hr. So:]

January 1st, Monday: 62 minutes, kms 20
January 2nd, Tuesday: 92 minutes: kms 30
January 3rd, Wednesday: 62 minutes, kms 20

Total progress: kms 70/3257,312

Mari33a · January 3

Hi Everyone,

Back for another round. Only got my first ride this morning so:

Previous: 0
03/01 10.11 miles
Total: 10.11/2023miles

martinez0701 · January 4

I have a recumbent bike at home and I love to ride and watch tv.
1/2 10 miles
1/3 25 miles broken into 2 rides

SavageMrsMoose · January 4

Happy New Year Everyone!

I live in the cold here in Telluride, Colorado, maybe not as cold as @ashleycarole86, but too cold and icy to ride outside in the winter. I’ve never tried a snow bike though. A lot of people ride here in the summer. I have a bike in Houston (in storage lol) but thinking of getting cruisers for myself and my husband this summer. We can drive to a state park about an hour away that has some really nice paths for running or biking. It’s also about 2000 feet lower in elevation an is along a river and flat- or as flat as it gets anywhere in Colorado.

I logged my first ride of the year!

1/3. 45 minutes of peloton, 12.5 miles

Sett2023 · January 4

[I go with the average suggested by internet, that is 20 km/hr. So:]
January 1st, Monday: 62 minutes, kms 20
January 2nd, Tuesday: 92 minutes: kms 30
January 3rd, Wednesday: 62 minutes, kms 20
January 4th, Thursday: 76 minutes, Kms 25
Total progress: kms 95/3257,312

Mari33a · January 4

Previous 10.11 miles
4/01 10.12 miles
Total 20.23/2023miles

I got a 3.5 mile run yesterday evening too and this evening my daughter wants me to go to gym with her so I’ll use the treadmill. Not been on one in years so this will be interesting & hopefully not like a scene in a comedy

wendsg · January 4

LOL No worries, @Mari33a ! Treadmill running's like riding a bike.

(and coincidentally, that's what I'm doing tomorrow after my bike ride - have a Zwift 'cyclist to 10k' run that needs doing.)

Forgot to log yesterday because I'm just like that - it was a nice little climb on Zwift's climb portal. Today was riding to and from the pool, and then a Zwift meetup on their high rolling resistance off-road map..

Ride 1 - 10.00 miles <- this one’s from yesterday, d’oh
Ride 2 - 1.74 miles
Ride 3 - 1.80 miles
Ride 4 - 17.00 miles
Previous - 53.45 miles

Total - 83.99 miles / 2023 miles

Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/10487892297
https://www.strava.com/activities/10492631363
https://www.strava.com/activities/10493117407
https://www.strava.com/activities/10493820304

martinez0701 · January 4

1/2 10 miles
1/3 25 miles broken into 2 rides
1/4 10 miles

ashleycarole86 · January 5

Jan 4:
30 min Power Zone Endurance Ride (Peloton) - 8.92 miles

Previous: 17.62 miles
MTD: 26.54 miles
Remaining: 1997.46 miles

Sett2023 · January 5

[I go with the average suggested by internet, that is 20 km/hr. So:]
Previous: 95 kms, since here cycled every day (in 2024) - 5 including today
January 5th, Friday: minutes 76, kms 25 (wow, very proud of myself today, I rode faaaast – for my standards, obv 😊 )
Total progress: kms 120/3257,312
Remaining: 3137,312

wendsg · January 5

@martinez0701 Welcome to the challenge! Good start so far.

Just one ride today (have a run coming up that promises to be brutal, and tomorrow's run isn't going to be something to sneeze at either). Tour de Zwift is going on, so I did the long route. Lots of climbing around jolly old virtual London.

Ride 1 - 26.01 miles
Previous - 83.99 miles

Total - 110.00 miles / 2023 miles

Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/10499163499

Sett2023 · January 6

[I go with the average suggested by internet, that is 20 km/hr. So:]
Previous: 120 kms
Days cycling (in 2024) – 6 including today
January 6th, Saturday: minutes 62, kms 20
Total progress: kms 140/3257,312
Remaining: 3117,312

Mari33a · January 6

Previous 20.23miles
05/01 10.13 miles
Total 30.36/2023miles

I should have had more miles but had to work late & ran out of time.

wendsg · January 6

Only one ride today because today also featured a workout run which was absolutely brutal and made me question all of my life choices.

But the ride was great!

Ride - 20.01 miles
Previous - 110.00 miles

Total - 130.01 miles / 2023 miles

Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/10506611551

Sett2023 · January 8

[I go with the average suggested by internet, that is 20 km/hr. So:]
Previous: 140 kms
Days cycling (in 2024) – 7 including today
Yesterday (Jan 7) rest day.
Today, January 8th, Monday: minutes 61, kms 20
Total progress: kms 160/3257,312
Remaining: 3097,312

wendsg · January 9

Forgot to log yesterday's effort, so capturing it here. A virtual climb that was tons of fun, and a meetup with some friends.

Ride 1 - 10.00 miles <- yesterday’s that I forgot to log
Ride 2 - 16.01 miles
Previous - 130.01 miles

Total - 156.02 miles / 2023 miles

Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/10515428967
https://www.strava.com/activities/10519205008

Sett2023 · January 9

Previous: 160 kms
Days cycling (in 2024) – 8 including today
Today, January 9th: minutes 62, kms 20
Total progress: 180 kms /3257,312
Remaining: 3077,312
[I go with the average suggested by internet, that is 20 kms/hr.]

Mari33a · January 10

Previous 30.36miles
07/01 10.06 miles
08/01 10.15 miles
10/01 10.12 miles
Total 60.69/2023miles

3 rides to log, Sunday, Monday and this morning

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