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Longest distance you've ever biked in a day?

posted 12 months ago | Report

what is the longest distance you ever biked in a day on:

-mostly flat, or moderately hilly terrain
-strongly hilly to pseudo-mountainous terrain
-mountainous terrain

For me:
-45miles
-67miles
-20miles

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  • -135 Madison to Stevens Point
    -141 Ironman WI Course + more around the hilly parts of the area
    -101 Blue Ridge Parkway in NC

    posted 12 months ago

  • -379 and wow it hurt.
    -200k Horribly Hilly Hundreds
    -100-120? Blue Ridge Parkway NC

    posted 12 months ago

  • Well, I've got nothing on Kelly or Brodie.

    Oddly enough, all my longest rides have been in mountainous terrain...
    112 at IMLP
    ~105 Assault on Mt. Mitchell
    ~103 Blue Ridge Brutal

    While preparing for IMLP I rode a couple of 100 milers on gently rolling hills around home and a few 50 - 70 milers in the mountains of VA.

    Nothing longer than 50 on flat ground.

    posted 12 months ago

  • in reply to what David N. said:Well, I've got nothing on Kelly or Brodie. Oddly enough, all my longest rides have been in mountainous terrain... 112 at IMLP ~105 Assault on Mt. Mitchell ~103 Blue Ridge Brutal While preparing for IMLP I rode a couple of 100 milers on gently ro... read more

    It's all the same after a hundred - really numb legs :)

    posted 12 months ago

  • I don't remember how many miles it was but I did a rally from NYC to DC. think it was around 300 + miles.

    posted 12 months ago

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    posted 12 months ago | edited 12 months ago

  • 70 miles in North Carolina (very near Blue Ridge, but not on it).

    It was raining, I was alone, stiff and beat up from a crash, on a borrowed bike.

    Learned a lot that day, turned out to be one of the best rides of my life.

    posted 12 months ago

  • Wow, I'm like a baby compared to you guys! Good work! Keep breaking your own records. I'm gonna break mine all year because i moved to a warmer climate and got started with training mid january rather than in may

    posted 12 months ago

  • May sound silly. I'm a runner, but I'll give you my 2-cents. I biked 16-miles out/back on the Creeper Trail for my longest ride of 32-miles. It's mostly flat - Rails to Trail. It was a couple of years ago. I wasn't doing anything much. I got really lazzzzy there for awhile. I pushed it pretty hard, and when I finally finished my legs felt like they were going to fall off, lol. ( : But very true.The Creeper Trail stays packed in the Spring & Summer.
    God Bless.... +

    posted 12 months ago | edited 12 months ago

  • 86 miles in one day, in the MS150 from Houston to Austin... then another approximately 80 the next day. Maybe one day I'll get a century ride in. :)

    posted 12 months ago

  • 121 miles over three mountain passes (Triple-by-Pass). Took for ever (10hrs). Going to do it again this year and hope to only have to stop once. I have done 2x 100 rides also.

    posted 12 months ago

  • -~80mi
    -122mi (going for 100, got lost outside of Austin, TX)
    -no mountains, although my commutes around Seattle feel mountainous

    posted 12 months ago

  • Well, being European, I'll answer in kilometres, you can do the conversion as an exercise...

    - 100k - Bogerud - Moss
    - 180k - Bogerud - MinneƄsen - Bogerud
    - n/a ( I walk in the mountains and leave my bike at home...)

    posted 11 months ago

  • There aren't many hills in Florida, but you can find a few here and there in Central Florida. The longest I've gone is 78 miles from Bok Tower in Lake Wales to Orlando.

    posted 10 months ago

  • -120 mi Ironman Germany and then back to Hotel!
    -100 mi Training in Germany
    -100 mi Training Mallorca, Spain

    posted 10 months ago | edited 10 months ago

  • 126 - Rode to the start of a bike century, did the century, then back home.

    Hilliest - Climb to the Cloud bike century 5500 ft of cllimbing - Actual distance 107.3

    This year I hope to complete my 20th Bike Century in a row. But to be perfectly honest, there are people out there who ride 200-300 w/o issue.

    Take care

    posted 10 months ago

  • -87 miles(rails to trails) Cataldo to Harrison and back, Idaho. Oh ya, on my mountain bike :)
    -102 miles Lilac ride in Spokane, Washington. road bike
    -30 miles around Hayden Lake and area, Idaho. many times, mountain bike and road bike

    posted 10 months ago

  • My new distance: 66 miles over bigass rollin' hills. Soon, I'll turn that into 75 miles.

    posted 10 months ago

  • -150 miles from ft wayne to hammond indian, crazy winds but mostly flat
    -70 miles through pennsylvania crazy hilly terrain and the appalachians :-/

    posted 9 months ago

  • Wow! You guys are great and very inspiring. My longest so far is 36 miles. I'm working up towards a century.

    posted 9 months ago

  • in reply to what Tammy A. said:Wow! You guys are great and very inspiring. My longest so far is 36 miles. I'm working up towards a century.

    Should just do it! after mile 30 it's all the same... you'll hit 100 before you know it!

    posted 9 months ago

  • 34 miles yesterday. Only had the bike a month. Should be up past 50 or so in the next few weeks!

    posted 9 months ago

  • Tour down pacific coast in 85 149miles

    posted 9 months ago

  • 73 - was out for a century but had to cut it short due to time constraints.

    posted 9 months ago

  • A few years ago, when I was just 15, I rode in a 24 hour "ride?" around a horse racing track in San Jose.... 212 miles Oh, did I say, they did not smooth the track.

    posted 9 months ago

  • -mostly flat, or moderately hilly terrain
    205 mi, 10:26 hrs
    -strongly hilly to pseudo-mountainous terrain
    109 mi, 7000 ft of climbing, 7:40 hrs
    -mountainous terrain
    Haven't really done this yet, unless 7000 ft of climbing counts as mountainous.

    posted 9 months ago | edited 8 months ago

  • in high school over 20 years ago we did about 130

    Recently 100.00 for the Colorado bike MS

    rolling hills and flat

    posted 9 months ago

  • about 75mi with a few big climbs toward the end but rolling-ish prior. Then back (but more rolling) the day after (bike ms150 colorado 2009)

    posted 9 months ago

  • - 187 Waukesha, WI to Door County

    posted 9 months ago

  • 103 miles

    posted 8 months ago

  • 207 12-hour race
    137 Ottawa to Kingston
    200k several times

    posted 8 months ago

  • -110 miles in the vicinity of Tuscaloosa, AL
    -75 miles in Red River Gorge, KY
    -none

    posted 8 months ago

  • Sadly:
    40 miles. Plan to do a Century in October.

    posted 8 months ago

  • 265 km Quebec city to Montreal, use to be an epic race. I believe one of the fastest races was in '91, the break of 12 got about 4 minutes on the group I was in, finishing in 5:58, I was 28th if memory serves me.

    posted 7 months ago

  • 32 for me on a towpath.I imagine I could do more but I do this fo crosstraining.my passion is running.plus get saddle sore more than anything

    posted 7 months ago

  • 150 on July 4, 1986, Carlise Pa. to Newtown Pa. I have done several centry's since.
    We actual did 148 when we arrived home, but did another 2 so we could say 150.

    posted 7 months ago | edited 7 months ago

  • All on the Tour of the Nilgiris in Southern India - mostly hilly terrain except for the 1st day.

    - 170kms Bangalore-Mysore through some heavy traffic, and up/down a hill nearer the end
    - 145 kms Madikeri - Sultan Bathery - this was torturuous and hot, humid
    - 140 kms to Nandi Hills - and back home in Bangalore

    Oh, and all of this on an MTB :)

    posted 7 months ago | edited 7 months ago

  • I rode in the 24 Hours of Booty last year, here in Charlotte, NC and I rode 201 miles in one day. My longest ride prior to that was 45.

    I call it my "marathon" because, while I hope to one day run a marathon, reality says I most likely will not. I'm a cyclist, not a runner.

    posted 7 months ago

  • 100 miles exactly (we turned around at fifty -- up the Fox River Trail in Illinois ... and I'm in my mid-sixties.

    posted 7 months ago

  • Well, I'm a baby baby for biking, but I'm proud of myself anyway.
    My longest ride is 13 miles.....but I only started approx 2 weeks ago. In fact a week ago, I was really impressed with my 5 mile rides!
    It's completely flat where I live, except for the slight inclines at the railway tracks!
    The potholes are killing me!

    posted 6 months ago

  • 115 miles
    107 miles
    95 miles

    All pulling a hundred pound trailer.

    posted 6 months ago

  • Hi everyone,

    Back in July, me and a bunch of dads from our boys football club did a fundraising ride.

    We went from Wembley Stadium, North London, to Titchfield near the coast in Hampshire, it was 94 miles thereabouts and there were a couple of big hills about 60 miles in as we hit the South Downs... that's it for me apart from 60 miles in training, so it's

    -94 miles
    -0
    -0

    ...although let me tell you after 60 miles those hills felt like mountains to me!!

    posted 5 months ago

  • I did a charity event for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I rode from St. Louis, MO to Bethesda, MD. It was 885 miles in 8 days.
    Effingham, IL 9/15/2009 129 miles
    Indianapolis, IN 9/16/2009 138 miles
    Dayton, OH 9/17/2009 107 miles
    Columbus, OH 9/18/2009 73.2 miles
    Canton, OH 9/19/2009 121 miles
    Pittsburgh, PA 9/20/2009 96.8 miles
    Breezewood, PA 9/21/2009 114 miles
    Finish: Bethesda, MD 9/22/2009 107 miles

    posted 5 months ago

  • Flattish: around 200 k, I think (Oslo/Nittedal-Rena, Norway)
    Hilly: 240 k (Telemark, Norway)
    Mountainous: no idea (Norseman Extreme Triathlon? =180 k)
    Hardest: 120 k (or 140 k? -- don't remember) mountain bike ride in South Africa

    posted 4 months ago

  • 100.3 miles fairly flat terrain with a few rolling hills

    posted about 1 month ago

  • The 2009 Siskiyou Century at 104 miles with a few good hills.

    The most mountainous would have been the 60 mile Mountain Lakes Challenge in 2008.

    posted about 1 month ago

  • 120 Miles, I tagged onto a Club ride, that was a tough day, prior to that I had only ridden 40 miles max in any one time.

    Since then 95, 100, 85, 75, now normaly 30 - 40 during the winter, hoping to do a tonne once a week when the good weathers back.

    posted about 1 month ago

  • -600Km (although to be fair that took me 37 hrs w/ no sleep, so more than "a day"; in 24 hours, probably about 380Km)
    -200Km (want to do more hilly 200 & 300K's this year)
    -100Km

    posted about 1 month ago

  • 280 KMS

    posted 10 days ago | edited 10 days ago

  • 100 km (many years ago). It was a road course that I completed on a mountain bike.

    The post-event food was provided by the Outback Steakhouse. I took one look at it, thought how disgusting it would be to eat a dead animal, and never ate meat again.

    I have run / walked over 100 km in a single day several times.

    posted 10 days ago

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