How many miles a year do you ride?

[Watana Bob]

I typically average 1500-2000 miles per year outdoors, our snow free ice free season is May 1st. to October 1st. Off season I ride an analog bike on a fluid trainer downstairs doing about 500 miles over the course of winter. I am 69 and try to deal with a debilitating form of muscular dystrophy. This past summer I only managed 800 miles due to caring for my wife who is recovering from a very complex surgery that she had June 3rd.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I typically average 1500-2000 miles per year outdoors, our snow free ice free season is May 1st. to October 1st. Off season I ride an analog bike on a fluid trainer downstairs doing about 500 miles over the course of winter. I am 69 and try to deal with a debilitating form of muscular dystrophy. This past summer I only managed 800 miles due to caring for my wife who is recovering from a very complex surgery that she had June 3rd.

Those are some big challenges! Hope they go as well as possible.

Question if not too personal: Those challenges certainly reduce your opportunities to ride (indoor or out). But when you DO have the opportunity, do they increase or decrease the odds that you'll actually ride — for any amount of time?

I can imagine it going both ways, maybe even from day to day.

 

[PedalUma]

@Watana Bob I wish you the best. That is tough stuff.
I know someone who will soon be 72 and is training in the South 500 miles a week analog in hill country, to cross the continent on gravel with her custom eBike, while living in her tent, in the Spring. Falling back seems easier, but it is not. She is a hero, pressing ahead. Which reminds me, I have stopped lifting weights. That is falling back. I am still riding every day. Got to.