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Way to go sajeffe!

You got it lemurcat12, progress! Keep moving forward! Well Frank, I just got started cycling last year. When I started, 60 miles a week would have been a huge effort (and it was at the time). I'm now riding 100 miles a week and it's not that bad. I do remember my feet getting hot during the rides and I was just riding with…

Thanks for the info strassenkoenigin and steffenson! Makes sense. Hornsby, that was an amazing pic! Thanks for posting that. How in the world did they get started without a massive pile-up. MTD: 364 miles (met my goal, but it was way too low) We are getting heat advisories quite frequently this month, so I've been going on…

Amazing! Way to go Hornsby! That is a great time for some difficult circumstances. The wind is frequently my nemesis, so overcoming that headwind into the finish line is impressive. I see some of you guys (implied guys and girls - no sexism here) putting up some incredible numbers (over 400 and up to 1k) in a month. How do…

Wow! Some amazing riders in this thread. I'm sort of winded just reading through the thread. Faugsu, you are just chewing it up out there. Great job! Vemoman21, Strassenkoeni and Jerrytcher are just monsters. Imjohnson110 is putting in a great month as well. Inspiring, really inspiring. Sajeffe, you've got those last 9.1…

Last month was a bust for me as I was gone half the month for work. I'm going for 250 miles this month. With so much rain, I've added running to my exercise mix. Some days I don't trust the semi-wet roads and prefer to run. My goal is a 250/25 mile ride/run mix. I'm sure I'll have more of one than the other. Here in…

Barely hit my goal of 300 miles this month and the wind this past week made it tough to play catch up. 301.66 miles total with an average speed of 19.9 mph (so close to 20). I'll be enjoying a day of rest tomorrow before firing things up again on Thursday. Some great efforts this month. Faugsu, seems like you really amped…

Congratulations sajeffe! Way to go!

Started off with 22.5 miles yesterday. I hope to hit 300 miles this month, but given that I'll have one week less due to work commitments it will be tough. Side topic, don't you just hate it when your tracking device goofs up (GPS signal loss is one example) and you miss some miles. It's funny how irritating that is when…

... 3/20 - 30.5 miles, 94 mins 3/21 - 15.7 miles, 48 mins 3/22 - 21 miles, 62 mins 3/24 - 40.5 miles, 131 mins 3/29 - 22.4 miles, 68 mins 3/31 - 22.4 miles, 67 mins MTD (and final tally) - 400 miles In the the 6 months that I've been on a road, this is my best month. Most total miles, fastest rate over an hour and my fast…

The weather is super fantastic today. Had to take a break from work to get in a ride today. ... 3/13 - 30.55 miles, 94 min 3/15 - 20,3 miles, 63 min 3/17 - 20.4 miles, 63 min 3/18 - 22.6 miles, 70 min MTD - 248 miles

... 3/8 - 20.5 miles, 64 min 3/10 - 11.1 miles, 32 min 3/12 - 20.5 miles, 63 min MTD - 154 Given that I'm almost to my goal for the month, I think I'll push that up a little. Warmer days are bringing back some additional energy. Seems that with the warming weather, there are lots of other getting out as well. Great to have…

3/5 - 20.3 miles in 62 min 3/7 - 30.8 miles in 95 min using Runtastic. MTD - 102 miles.

Yep GeekLoss, the great thing about those doing 30 miles is that they started by doing 2 or 3 miles! I did the same thing. Just ride and keep riding. The fact you have 3 rides in there is awesome. I love how these threads for full of regular people just trying to "keep riding". Some people are noobs and some are old pros.…

3/1 - 20.4 miles 3/2 - 6.6 great miles with one of my sons 3/3 - 24 miles 3/4 - freezing rain!! no riding today MTD - 51 miles

Lets do this! March 1st - 20 miles. Going for 200. Just keep riding.

Thanks jjking54, way more bike than I need right now. I fell victim to the LBS great deal. No complaints from me though. I went out today and finished off those 27 miles I needed. Nice crisp afternoon ride to hit 251 miles for the month (13:12 duration). I probably need to set my goal to 250 miles each month, but I've been…

After six months back on my '75 Raleigh Super Course (which was showing it's age, just like me), I finally invested in a new bike. Missed the first week and half of February out of town, but since then I've put 223 miles on my new CAAD10 105. I've got at least one more ride in me this month so I will hopefully be able to…

My goal was 150 miles for the month, but I've been able to hit 224 miles so far. Pretty pumped about that. Perhaps I can get in a couple more rides before the end of the month as I'm going to be out of town a week or so next month. Any annual goals out there? This is my first full year and I'm going for 2k miles. That…

I'm ready to start another month cycling. Not sure how things will work out this month with the crazy weather patterns, but I'm going to go for 200 miles. I've been able to do that the last couple months, so it seems like a good target. I put in 20 miles last night. Regarding the apps, I find that Runtastic works pretty…

I ended the month with 207 miles. Now on to December. By the way, which December post do we use? Don't make us have to pick :).

Since I was scheduled to be out of town for a week, I set my mile total at 150 miles for November. Right now I'm at 184 miles, but I might be able to get in another ride before the end of the month. The cold weather is rough on us southern boys, so I'll have to buck up a little. This makes 3 months I've been able to hit my…

First off, some amazing totals by so many (and some great efforts even without the huge mile totals)! Some awesome stuff there. I had my original goal of 200 which I hit kind of early. I reset it to 300 and ended up the month with 335 miles and at an average 18.1 MPH. Next month I'll be travelling a lot, so I had to go for…

Yea! Hit my goal of 200+ with a 32 mile ride tonight. I'm at 212 MTD, so now I'm going for 250! Definitely humbled to see some of the awesome #s put up by people in the group, but even more so by some of the great attitudes. Keep riding.

Activities 7 Distance 146.19 mi Duration 08:07:05 Calories 7,423 kcal Looks like I'm on track to hit my 200 miles goal. Just need to finish strong and maybe (just maybe) hit 250. Gotta keep moving.

Some totally awesome MTDs! Congratulations to all! Runtastic tells me that I did 229 miles in September. My 2nd month on my bike so I'm pretty excited.

Hit my MTD goal of 150 last night with a 31 mile ride. Averaged 17.1 over 1 hour 48 min. Now it's time to just pile on a few more miles to see if I can get to 200.

Nice picture Paul! I have a goal of 150 miles and so far I'm at 101 miles (don't count my kayak miles). This is only my second back on my bike after a long, long break. I have some out of town trips coming up so I'm going to try making the most of my other workout days. My last ride I was able to hit my highest average…

As several people have mentioned, it's very dependent on how you view it. The scale is just a tool and it shouldn't be able to control how you feel about yourself. I'm a numbers guy (statistician by trade) and so I love the daily measurements. If I weighted once a week and it happened to be an up day, then I would be…