how many km's does your average professional cyclist cycle a year

thebourke

i cycled 6,000k last year....i was wondering how many km's your average professional cyclist does?

Hermy

I think I remember hearing somewhere that's it's in the region of 20,000km's a year.

07Lapierre

2000klm per month?

petethedrummer

Ivan Basso see Attachment.

I presume it includes Race and Training kms.

Ole Rodrigo

Jonathan Vaughters says 20000 miles per year, for ten years to participate in the TDF.

Achieving childhood dreams is a hard road. I found that to be only truer as the years and miles passed. First, there is the physical effort of riding 20,000 miles a year for 10 straight years to even get within spitting distance of ever riding the Tour de France. Then comes the strain on your family as they try to support, or at least understand, such a singular focus

2 Wheels Good

petethedrummer wrote: »

Ivan Basso see Attachment.

I presume it includes Race and Training kms.

Check out the Total Ascent, 44000m per month in June/July!

PizzamanIRL

Hermy wrote: »

I think I remember hearing somewhere that's it's in the region of 20,000km's a year.

Wow.

That's more than I drive in a year.

Wishbone Ash

Ryan Sherlock is averaging 700km per week (in the off season)!

letape

I would have expected 40,000km - 50,000km!

RoHar

Data on 'raced' kms for 2012 contained within this interesting article:

http://inrng.com/2012/11/2012-race-statistics/

crumliniano

Marco Pinotti says in his book The Cycling Professor that he was doing 20 to 25 thousand km per year training + 50 days racing (while he was doing his engineering degree!) and that when he turned pro in 99 that increased to 30000 training + 85 days racing.

godtabh

crumliniano wrote: »

Marco Pinotti says in his book The Cycling Professor that he was doing 20 to 25 thousand km per year training + 50 days racing (while he was doing his engineering degree!) and that when he turned pro in 99 that increased to 30000 training + 85 days racing.

24k km while studying for an engineering that is very impressive

blorg

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Wow.

That's more than I drive in a year.

They are professionals, it's their job. I've done more than that in a year while working full time, it's only 385km a week average. At race speeds that's under ten hours on the bike.

As others have suggested I imagine they actually do a lot more than that, although I believe riders used train longer in the past. Now there is a more scientific approach to training so riders can get the benefit from less, more focused training, and structure and recovery is emphasised more. But certainly they are still putting in a hell of a lot of kms.

Konkers

thebourke wrote: »

i cycled 6,000k last year....i was wondering how many km's your average professional cyclist does?

Per William fotheringham in his book half man half bike about eddy Merckx

" for eleven race seasons from 1967 to 1977, he raced between 111 and 151 races a season totalling 1413 races. One estimate is that he trained for 15,000 miles a year, raced about 30,000 and travelled 80,000 by car, rail or air."

That's phenomenal.......:eek:

RidleyRider

If a rider takes part in all 3 grand tours they'll have covered roughly 10,500km before training or the smaller tours. I'd say they are well into 30,000km.

piston

I believe the late Beryl Burton road anything between 300 - 700 miles in an average week.