[Newb]

I want to know how I'm doing:
Weight: 245 pounds
Height: 6 feet and 2 inches.
Distance a day: 38 miles (2x 19)
how often: 5 days a week.
Estemated average speed: 16 miles an hour.

I'm losing about 2 to 3 pounds a week currently.
Am I doing good or bad?
(it's on a road bicycle with 21 gears by the way)

[qmsdc15]

You're doing great. You are racking up more miles than 99% of us and your speed is good. Excellent if that involves a lot of stop and go, traffic, etc.

[Newb]

I ride that to school, so I do go through alot of traffic. (traffic-delays alone is 15 to 30 minutes a day)
I also face about 4 bridges, 2 of them are for going over a river and 2 over a highway.
My VO2 max was first measured at 31%, 6 weeks later it was 34,4%. (quite bad)
I don't know what it'll be now.
The last measurement was 3 weeks ago.

Usually I drink about half a litre of energy drink (monster energy, juice) in the morning and I take a few supplements.
I wear 2 t-shirts and one sweater on top, a trouser and a sports trouser underneith to withstand the cold but I usually I heat up within 10 minutes even at 0 degrees celsius.
I don't even need gloves or something
I better not even wear them, they'll be soaked.

[senecacyclist]

Originally Posted by flanderscycling

I don't leave for less then 50 miles.
Try to do a century every saturday, I succeeded the last 15 saturdays!

Normally I do about 250 miles a week

Nice! I try do do a similar thing(without the century) but pay more attention to time. I like to ride for 2 hours weekdays when the weather is good, 1 hour when weather is cold. 3-4 hour rides on the weekends.

[Newb]

what is meant with a 'century'?

[qmsdc15]

A century is 100 miles Metric century, 100 kilometers.

[senecacyclist]

Originally Posted by Newb

I want to know how I'm doing:
Weight: 245 pounds
Height: 6 feet and 2 inches.
Distance a day: 38 miles (2x 19)
how often: 5 days a week.
Estemated average speed: 16 miles an hour.

I'm losing about 2 to 3 pounds a week currently.
Am I doing good or bad?
(it's on a road bicycle with 21 gears by the way)

I applaud you. Just be careful of injuries from overdoing it, they ll slow your progress down.

[Newb]

Ok thanks qmsdc15.
100 miles is too far for me in one day, I'd have to go past my limit

@senecacyclist
Thank you
I did fell yesterday cause of a tramrail. Not too bad but still...
About overdoing it, usually I do overdo it, it's always been my way to seek my limit and try to get beyond it.
Sometimes when I think I've had it, I push myself more and eventually I'm somehow stronger than when I'm not tired, going about 22-25 mph for a while.
Lazy muscles I guess

[Newb]

My bicycle is severely worn down.
I only have it for 3 months, I went to the store with it cause it had some problems, the dude looks at it and he said that:
The break-blocks were gone, bicycle chain rusted and maybe damaged, gearwheels rusted and blunt so when I bicycle it everytime skipped a few and front light was burned through.
Total cost: 250 euro's.
Thank god for insurance

[John_V]

I ride daily, doing 30-45 miles a ride with longer rides on the weekends. I also do charity rides that are 100 K or more (9 last year and 4 this year). So far this year I'm at 2,385 miles for the year. Last year I logged between 6-7,000 miles. Not sure how many I'll get in this year.