Average KM's per year

Needabike · 06-01-2009 12:15PM #1

Average KM's per year - how much do you reckon

blorg · 06-01-2009 12:58PM

For 2008:

13,369km
158,800m ascent
609,267 calories

This is from the Garmin so is a bit underreported as I wouldn't always have had it with me and working.

Chips Lovell · 06-01-2009 01:07PM

Mother of god, blorg. That's some total. I only did half of that last year.

Useless fact of the day:

Blorg's annual calorie burn = 1,348 Mars bars

TinyExplosions · 06-01-2009 01:13PM

el tonto wrote: »

Blorg's annual calorie burn = 1,348 Mars bars

1,348 garmin Mars Bars... maybe a few less real ones

Caroline_ie · 06-01-2009 01:14PM

el tonto wrote: »

Mother of god, blorg. That's some total. I only did half of that last year.

Useless fact of the day:

Blorg's annual calorie burn = 1,348 Mars bars

Allow me to correct that Tonto ...

A Mars Bar is 294 cals, blorg's annual calorie burn is 2072 Mars bars

or

175 lbs of fat ( a pound of fat being 3500 cals )

maybe we can launch the blorg diet program ...

RobFowl · 06-01-2009 01:15PM

el tonto wrote: »

Mother of god, blorg. That's some total. I only did half of that last year.

Useless fact of the day:

Blorg's annual calorie burn = 1,348 Mars bars

Or 1235 Big Mac's !

niceonetom · 06-01-2009 01:15PM

blorg - you are, as ever, an inspiration to us all. :P

i have absolutely no idea how many i did last year. no computer on the commuter, and the computer (bikehut crap) on the road bike would randomly reset itself to zero. i'd guestimate it at about 6k though.

my new toy arrived this morning so i should have a precise answer this time next year. it doesn't count turbo kms though which is frustrating as they're all i'm capable of right now.

i think 10k might be achievable.

ednwireland · 06-01-2009 01:19PM

i'm not even going to vote it would be 2 embarrassing but last year = not enough this year = more, hopefully work permitting (i guess i may do more now i'm a 3 day week as well) must order those new wheels as well.

ROK ON · 06-01-2009 01:19PM

While on the topic of calories, how many kms do I need to do, to burn off the chinese/indian/pizza that I tend to reward yself with after a longi spin:D.

What is my junkfood neutral cycle?

kenmc · 06-01-2009 01:22PM

I've been tracking my data on sporttracks the last few months. Even though I don't take the garmin on my commute, I still add it manually (take the same route in/out anyway) so it's just a question of track it one day, then copy paste from day to day. It's amazing how quickly you can add up the kms - if I commute an average of 4 days a week, 48 weeks a year, there's 3000+kms straight up before I even do a weekend spin, never mind summer evening ones.

kenmc · 06-01-2009 01:23PM

ROK ON wrote: »

While on the topic of calories, how many kms do I need to do, to burn off the chinese/indian/pizza that I tend to reward yself with after a longi spin:D.

What is my junkfood neutral cycle?

Depends on whether it's uphill or downhill kms

Chips Lovell · 06-01-2009 01:24PM

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Allow me to correct that Tonto ...

A Mars Bar is 294 cals, blorg's annual calorie burn is 2072 Mars bars

You're right. I used the calories per 100g by mistake.

Gavin · 06-01-2009 01:30PM

A more efficient way to get calories from Blorg's Mars bars may be to deep fat fry them. This bumps the calorie count up to 932, reducing the number of Mars bars consumed to 658, with a few calories left over.

Efficiency is important.

Cycling wise, 30km a day, usually around 4 days a week does add up alright. I wouldn't do nearly as much distance on road bike spins. Although I hope to change that this year. Incidentally and off topic, I re-greased the ball bearings on the banana cheapo wheels this morning. Fantastic, I only had to pedal once and cruised all the way in effortlessly.

penexpers · 06-01-2009 01:46PM

I'm currently bringing up the rear!

Raam · 06-01-2009 02:11PM

I dunno what my total distance is, but my commute is about 23km roundtrip. So lets say I do that (52 * 5) - 25 (hols) = 5405km. I'll have to look at SportTracks this eve to find out what I've done in longer spins

irishmotorist · 06-01-2009 02:32PM

I think I might have undersold myself in the poll - I put in 6000 to 8000. Instead of any kind of calculation (like a sensible person would do), I took a guess.
My commute comes to about 7000 so there was easily another couple of thousand in there too. That's mental!

Caroline_ie · 06-01-2009 02:37PM

Ah feck .. it's not fair. I can't count my commute ... I live 5 minutes from work. I still cycled between 5000 and 5500km this year though ...
Aiming for the 6000 to 8000 bracket in 2009... need to add computers to all my bikes ...

irishmotorist · 06-01-2009 02:39PM

You could commute via town when you're back up and running...:)

Caroline_ie · 06-01-2009 02:43PM

irishmotorist wrote: »

You could commute via town when you're back up and running...:)

LoL ... i actually thought of that ... But at the moment I go to the gym after work 1 hours + 40min turbo-ing after the gym at home... I prob won't be able to stay on the bike very long for a while ... so a lot of KM to catch up in February & March !

Ryaner · 06-01-2009 03:11PM

I live 3 miles from work so my plan is to take a small detour round the back of the airport then via Malahide and Howth to get to work. All to justify a new bike

Turbulent Bill · 06-01-2009 03:52PM

Ryaner wrote: »

I live 3 miles from work so my plan is to take a small detour round the back of the airport then via Malahide and Howth to get to work. All to justify a new bike

That's the kind of thinking that does this forum proud.

scottreynolds · 06-01-2009 05:17PM

to one up Raam

averageCommuteDistance = 30km;
averageWeekendRide =100km;
holidays = 25;

commuteDaysInWeek = 5;
numberOfWeeks = 52;

totalsCommuteDays = (commuteDaysInWeek * numberOfWeeks) - holidays
estAverageDistanceNotIncludingMiscRides = (totalsCommuteDays * averageCommuteDistance) + (averageWeekendRide * numberOfWeeks )

ahhh I see its == 12,400 kilometres

DirkVoodoo · 06-01-2009 05:47PM

Ahh, I see now why these Garmins are so useful. I can only estimate my commuting total similar to Raam and my actual spin total is probably embarassingly low on account of my crippling laziness.

Still, my new years resolution stands: No more wiggle or CRC purchases till I start working!

Gavin · 06-01-2009 05:51PM

I'm afraid that code won't compile. You have cycled 0 km

DirkVoodoo · 06-01-2009 05:55PM

When i copy and pasted that into excel i got a little game: "Blorg 3D".

I'm not sure what your meant to do yet, I just hold the space bar and he seems to keep going and going, uphill too!

cunavalos · 06-01-2009 06:49PM

i spent the day trying to work out my total for the year and it came to 9400 kms . if i had thought about it any earlier in the year i think i could have possibly made it to 10000km. Well at least i have a target for 2009

kincsem · 07-01-2009 01:11AM

Under 1000km for me. That includes the Wicklow 200, and a training ride return from Ashford in a taxi.

Quality not quantity. :rolleyes:

Billy Whizz · 07-01-2009 04:14PM

Ryaner wrote: »

I live 3 miles from work so my plan is to take a small detour round the back of the airport then via Malahide and Howth to get to work. All to justify a new bike

That's what I do. Commute is only a 25km round trip but I turn it into 55km be going through Malahide and then around the back of the airport on the fixie. It's can get pretty windy out there so is very good for building up the strength. Don't do it every day though, just when I'm not on the road bike/turbo

TinyExplosions · 07-01-2009 04:29PM

My commute is only 6k. In Total... commuter fail :rolleyes:

short circuit · 07-01-2009 04:45PM

I am simply amazed at the number of kms people put in even though they have small commutes.

Most of my distance is on the commute ... 48km round trip ... and I had a quick peek and it seems I did that about 120 times in 2008 ... only started in April ... and was off in holidays for a month ... so I think I did pretty well there ... if I may say so myself ...

So 5760kms in commute.
And another 2000kms over weekend spins etc. of which I have record of .... aim to improve this in 2009 and get above 10000kms

blorg · 07-01-2009 05:30PM

I think you win on the commute front short circuit! My own commute is only 6.5km each way.

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