Last week I just about scraped up some respectability for myself by managing to ride a little over 70 miles – 70.34 miles to be precise. A couple of weeks ago, while on holiday, I managed 143 miles and would have put in a few more had I not missed two days out of my cycling week. Now, back at work three days per week, I've got to recalibrate my weekly mileage. Today, as I write this, it's Tuesday and unless I ride into the office tomorrow (24 miles) or if I push the envelope a bit on Saturday morning, I'll be game on for another just about respectable 70 miles or so.
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| Saturday 15 August in Westerham Costa |
The weather outside looks alright, no sunshine to speak of, but it's warm enough, which is the main thing. I'm not sure if I've spoken much about it, but ever since 25 April this year I've been recording my rides and since that date I have covered a total of 1,202.15 miles. I haven't been riding every day, but I have had a few spells of daily rides and there haven't been many long gaps between rides. My longest spell of consecutive rides started on 15th July and finished on 27 July when there was a gap of just one day until I jumped back on the bike and rode to Westerham and then, two days later, rode to Shoreham in Kent (38.63 miles). My longest mileage was 143 miles during the week starting 25 July and now, as you know, I've had to recalibrate to take into consideration the work situation.
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| Saturday 21 August in Costa in Westerham |
The great thing about recording rides (and I don't mean on Strava, although I do that too) is that you find little facts that can be used to enliven blog posts like this one. For example from 25 April until 25 July six out of 50 rides encountered rain as opposed to 25 out of 50 rides that were blessed with sunshine (now there's a heartening statistic! Since 1st July I have covered 578.20 miles on the bike and overall, since 25 April (as I've said already) I've riden a total of 1,202.15 miles. Not bad going. In terms of rides per week since 1st July, and in date order, I have been on the bike for seven days a week just once, five days a week three times, four days a week and two days a week just once each; the two days per week ride was on the week commencing 1 August when I rode on 1 August and 7 August, the ride on 1 August was warm and sunny, but the 7th August ride was warm with rain. The four-ride week commenced on 8 August and finished 14 August and most of the time it was warm and sunny. Generally speaking the weather has been pretty good. Over the period from 25 April to the present day I have riden to Westerham 25 times and experienced the joys of the Washpond Weeble 21 times. And let's not forget new rides to Shoreham in Kent, Green Street Green and Knockholt and shortly there will be Lord Chatham's Ride, let's hope that's all I'm building it up to be.
Weekly mileages since 1st May 2021
Week ending
1 May 2021 = 60.18 miles
6 May 2021 = 65.64 miles
15 May 2021 = 105.89 miles
16 May 2021 = 25.35 miles (only rode once that week).
29 May 2021 = 75.58 miles
5 June 2021 = 67.09 miles
6 June 2021 = 21.44 miles (only rode once that week).
19 June 2021 = 84.75 miles
26 June 2021 = 70.46 miles
3 July 2021 = 84.57 miles
10 July 2021 = 34.53 miles
17 July 2021 = 83.17 miles
23 July 2021 = 115.73 miles
31 July 2021 = 143.53 miles
7 August 2021 = 47.68 miles
14 August 2021 = 70.34 miles
21 August 2021 = 83.01 miles
Notes: it's worth bearing in mind that since 1st May 2021 there have only been two riding weeks under 30 miles, 10 weeks over 70 miles, thirteen weeks over 60 miles and just three weeks over 100 miles.
