The quest for 25,000 is nearly complete. Obviously…much…no a ton of reflection to do here. Barring an act of God I will cross 25,000 tomorrow…and keep going. I believe Strava will say about 25,150 for 2020.
It’s been a great ride. I’m not close to perfect. Always learning. Always driven to become better at everything. Especially motivated in 2021 to remember what’s the most important. Especially my wife!
Congratulations! That’s an amazing achievement. I recently hit my goal of 10,000 bike miles and I was happy with it. Do you bike and run? How many hours is this?
I will try to do a big detailed “what it takes” and “my mistakes” here shortly, but to reply…
I no longer run and swim. I do about 6 weight training sessions per week in addition to riding. My cycling hours will be just a hair short of 1200. And again…to allude to real life reality…that’s not necessarily brag worthy.
Hey great job on hitting 25k. I was wondering what gps/computer you are using to record it all. Cheers!
Congrats. This must be 3.5 hrs every day all year. If you miss a day you need a 7 hrs day to catch up. If you get a stretch of crap weather you head out anyway for 3.5 hrs of misery. This is very impressive since there is also so much weather dependence and having the mental fortitude to embrace it regardless.
I will try to do a big detailed “what it takes” and “my mistakes” here shortly, but to reply…
I’d certainly like to read on what was good / bad / ugly and how you scheduled yourself to achieve this, what kind of sessions, how you fitted it in around the rest of life, and (if it’s not intruding too much) what you do when not on the bike, family, etc etc. Also how much indoors vs outdoors (and where roughly you are to put the weather aspect into it).
For a variety of excuses, I’ve not reached 10% of that this year on the bike. (But despite losing 4 months of no swimming due to covid closures of both indoor and outdoor) have got about as much miles in swimming as before.
So I’d love to hear all about how you went about it.
I will try to do a big detailed “what it takes” and “my mistakes” here shortly, but to reply…
I no longer run and swim. I do about 6 weight training sessions per week in addition to riding. My cycling hours will be just a hair short of 1200. And again…to allude to real life reality…that’s not necessarily brag worthy.
I’d like to read on what you use/spend on bike maintenance for this mileage: how many tubes, tires, chains, lube, tune-ups, etc.
That is insane!! (In a good way!)
I won’t put 25k on my car this year, and I drive a bunch for work!
Super impressive!!
That is insane!! (In a good way!)
I won’t put 25k on my car this year, and I drive a bunch for work!
Super impressive!!
I just realized that my car distance 11,000km + bike 8000km + run 3200km + swim 800km combined (23000km) don’t add up in kilometers to what he did in miles! If I add my air miles which was a single leg Ottawa-Dubai-Mumbai return (24000km), then I bare surpassed his total which is 40000km but I needed a full long haul flight leg to get enough mileage.
To put this in perspective 25,000 miles or 40,000km is the circumference of this earth. I don’t know if he was trying for that, but he did it.
You should change the thread title to “full tour of earth test ride on bike XYZ”.
No one on ST cares about actual humans doing sport, they just care about hardware on toys, so focus on what the toy did, not the human and we might get some interaction on this massive achievement.
A picture of the bike and noting that in the thread title may drive up interaction around here. Mention if you went tubeless or latex tubes, what tires, their Crr and what power meter. Also make sure that you point out if this was done on disc brakes.
If Cervelo is included in the thread title whether it was on a Cervelo or no it will multiply engagement 10x. Maybe something like “full tour of earth test ride on non Cervelo bike”
You should change the thread title to “full tour of earth test ride on bike XYZ”.
No one on ST cares about actual humans doing sport, they just care about hardware on toys, so focus on what the toy did, not the human and we might get some interaction on this massive achievement.
A picture of the bike and noting that in the thread title may drive up interaction around here. Mention if you went tubeless or latex tubes, what tires, their Crr and what power meter. Also make sure that you point out if this was done on disc brakes.
If Cervelo is included in the thread title whether it was on a Cervelo or no it will multiply engagement 10x. Maybe something like “full tour of earth test ride on non Cervelo bike”
Maybe get an oblique mention of Lionel in there for maximum clicks ? 🤣
Whats a mile?
Whats a mile?
A proper measurement of distance. 😎
24,985. The quest ends…in about 2 hours 
The journey never ends.
24,985. The quest ends…in about 2 hours The journey never ends.
Awesome. Keep it up. This is huge. Well done!!
Here’s a couple for you Dev:
#rideHEDwheels
or
#TrekProjectOne
Or
#organicPureFuel
Or
@ApexCyclingTeam
The “things” part will come just for you…haha!
Amazing, congrats.
I will try to do a big detailed “what it takes” and “my mistakes” here shortly, but to reply…
I no longer run and swim. I do about 6 weight training sessions per week in addition to riding. My cycling hours will be just a hair short of 1200. And again…to allude to real life reality…that’s not necessarily brag worthy.
Congrats on an epic year on the bike… very impressive.
Def interested in this… I am looking at 10K miles as a target next year and wondering how to fit I all in. Would like to learn from your experience this year.
25,011!
0.0 miles ridden with tubes
except 2 times to get home with monster puctures
25,011!
0.0 miles ridden with tubes
except 2 times to get home with monster puctures
One loop of planet earth in 363 days. Chapeau. I wonder if you biked more than Primoz Roglic. I think a solid protour year is 30,000 to 40,000 km or at least those were the ranges I used to see in the mid 80s where I closely followed the old Renault Elf and La Vie Claire pro Cycling teams.