How Far Can/Do You Ride?

I do a lot of spin class, but obviously I can't count that.

I've only been on one real bike ride and it was 28 miles. Bike shorts definitely help (with the padded butts). What with all the strength training and spin classes I'd been doing, I felt perfectly fine the next day except for some mild soreness in my butt. But for never doing a long bike ride and suddenly doing 28 miles, not too shabby I just need to do it more often now.

The most I've done in one ride was 35 miles. On week nights I'll do 10-15 miles through Denver. It ends up being a good workout because of stopping and starting at red lights and what not. Also, I weighed my bike and it's 35 lbs! I'd love to buy a road bike but it seems like everytime I'm ready to do it something else comes up that I have to spend money on.

Keep on ridin'

i just started biking too. i bought a cushy seat but my pelvic bones go numb and ache. do i just suck it up and get used to it or is there a better solution?

I'm mainly an off-road cyclist but I just bought a "fast hybrid" which has roadie wheels and frame but flat bars and disc brakes. I bought it for commuting to work which is a 30 mile round trip. 32 miles my longest ride on it but I've only been on it twice (had it a week).

On my mountain bike at the moment 20 miles is about my limit off road, would like to increase that.

With your roadie make sure you get it set up right for your height/frame/riding position, or it can really play havoc with your hip and knee joints. Enjoy the new bike!

That's amazing! Does your butt hurt?

I ride 10-15 miles on most days, maybe 5 days per week. My longest ride ever (when I was younger) was 80+ miles. That was tough, but I had a junky bike at the time and I think I could do that ride much easier today. I recently rode in a 67 mile ride which did kick my butt because the last 20 miles were into the wind (and it was strong that day). The first 50 miles were just fine.

I have a padded gel seat, and also a gel seat overlay for extra comfort. I don't need bike shorts unless it is a longer ride. But, I also wear bike shorts for those longer rides. I also just changed the angle of my seat, because I was still getting "crotchy". This made a HUGE difference.

40 miles is the most, and that was on an 80s steel Raleigh mountain bike, lol, not sure how I managed it, given there were so many hills I could have died. I had only been cycling for a matter of a month or so at the time. My bf had told me it was 'only a few miles further' than the usual place I cycled, but his idea of a few miles turned out to be about 11 miles, and I was determined to not turn back. As it turned out, Stockbridge, where I ended up, is rather pretty.

I try and cycle anything from 3 to 6 times a week, and at least an hour, sometimes going for up to 3 hours depending on my energy. I currently have a hybrid that weights almost 15kg and isn't ideal for someone with impaired lung function and hilly areas, but it burns a fair few calories at least and kept my weight down. I have been cycling around a year now.

My longest ride (in recent years) is a charity ride I do in September - 100km (about 61 miles)

My bike commute to work is 19km each way and my target is 2 days per week.

I try to ride twice a week for about 20 miles. I have ridden over 40 miles many times. Kansas City has a Tour d' BBQ 62 mile ride for the Livestrong Foundation. I've done that twice. It stops at six different BBQ joints around the city. It's quite a party.

My longest was a charity ride a few weeks back, 132miles with 11,000ft of climbing (and descending :-) ) I usually cycle to work in the week, which is 50 miles round trip and a Sunday club rub is anywhere between 50 - 80 miles.

When I started riding, the longest I could go was 10 minutes before my knees hurt really bad. Everybody talks about their butts being the problem, but for me it was my knees. So I had to teach my knees to enjoy cycling as much as the rest of me did. It took a while, but they came around. Now cycling is the easiest task for my knees to perform.

I can go pretty long- my longest this year is about 3.5 hours at a nice solid pace. I've done longer in the past. But I'm happy with this. I usually wear bike shorts, but I'm also comfortable in triathlon shorts, and can ride in those just as long as bike shorts.

I have issues with the family jewels going numb. My tri bike has a special saddle called an Adamo which is designed to help eliminate numbness. It's the cat's pajamas. My cross bike doesn't have one, and every time I ride my cross bike more than an hour, I inevitably end up thinking to myself, "Dude, you REALLY need to get another Adamo!..."

I hope this helps, and it sounds like you're doing spectacularly! Keep pushing that distance, and before too long you'll be going WAY past 28 miles!

TriJoe.

i just started biking too. i bought a cushy seat but my pelvic bones go numb and ache. do i just suck it up and get used to it or is there a better solution?

a cushy seat isnt really all that great ..... your sit bones need to get used to any seat after ahile you'll enjoy a stiffer saddle

I bike to cross-train every other day (MWF) because my knees can't take day after day of running. I usually do 8 miles Mondays as a recovery from my long run, 8-10 miles Wednesdays, and 12-15 miles Fridays. Not very long, but it ends up being a good 35-60 minute workout and it's helped my knees a ton since I've started biking 2-3 months ago. (And I just recently bought a helmet now that I'm biking outside regularly, so I feel less iffy about going on longer rides in the future. Yay!)