Do you log your miles?
As mentioned elsewhere, I like to count. I count cyclists on my commute. I count the number of routes I ride. I count my monthly miles.
Since using myCyclingLog.com to log my miles, I've become more conscious of the miles I'm getting, and it has motivated me to make rides that I may not have made otherwise.
Do you log your miles? Are you looking for a simple way to motivate yourself to make more trips?
By the way, I should give credit to Apertome's Ear to the Breeze for introducing me to myCyclingLog.com. I may not have run across this otherwise.
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posted by Jett @ 10:21 PM
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I have logged every ride since 2005 on my website and in a spreadsheet, which is currently housed in Google Apps. I find that goals and tracking help keep me motivated.
I log miles. It's a motivator for me, both on boosting miles and number of rides. I started keeping track of miles/rides on my regular iCal schedule. In December, I switched to the online training log at runnersworld.com. I get up to date charts with my Run/Walk/Cycle miles, and have become quite fond of tracking the heart rate along with the mileage. My average HR during a ride is 5-10 beats lower than it was a few months ago, which is another big kick in the seat when I want to be lazy and take the car.
I really enjoy a few things I get from the online logging I use:
There's a ranking of how you match up with other riders. I find myself trying to stay even with riders that are close to me in rank.
I like the graphs so I can compare this month with the same month last year.
We're able to merge our statistics as a group ("Atlanta Spokes Folks") and match our miles against other groups in other cities.
Resting heart rate is good. After a while, once your rate steadies out, you can use an elevated resting heart rate to tell you may have over-exerted the day before and you'll want to consider an easy day. Before I learned this, I was puzzled by some of the times I was clocking and how my training was getting stuck.
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