I recently got a rear wheel speedometer, so This winter I will know how many miles I ride on my trainer. I've also started riding on a set of rollers. Do you count the miles towards your weekly / yearly miles? :confused:

I do keep track of trainer miles or time separately...

I recently got a rear wheel speedometer, so This winter I will know how many miles I ride on my trainer. I've also started riding on a set of rollers. Do you count the miles towards your weekly / yearly miles? :confused:
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Since by definition a mile is a measure of distance, how can trainer "miles" be called miles.

Every mile I ride with a set of rollers or a trainer in my messenger bag or in my BOB trailer counts towards my yearly miles.

Except;

I've taken the odomoters off my bikes.
I don't own a trainer.
I gave my rollers away.
I no longer keep track of my cumulative miles.

Ride your bike!

I recently got a rear wheel speedometer, so This winter I will know how many miles I ride on my trainer. I've also started riding on a set of rollers. Do you count the miles towards your weekly / yearly miles? :confused:

Each and every mile that I spend on my trainer, has a purpose. Unlike summertime, if you try to do an easy, nothing ride on a trainer, you will become so bored, you will fall off and hurt your head.

off my bikes.
I don't own a trainer.
I gave my rollers away.

Ride your bike!

Five years ago, when I started riding, it got a little cold in November. I went right out and bought a trainer. I took the bike out of the house a few times that winter, but most of my "miles" were indoor ones. Your winter reports over the years have both inspired and shamed me to test the limits of winter riding. I haven't thrown the trainer away yet and I can't promise you that I will be out on the roads all winter (18 degrees was my limit last year), but you and Miss M always come to mind when I look out the window and think: "Is to too (cold, wet, dark, etc.) to ride or should I just ride on the trainer?"

BTW: I do not count trainer miles in my annual total.

I recently got a rear wheel speedometer, so This winter I will know how many miles I ride on my trainer. I've also started riding on a set of rollers. Do you count the miles towards your weekly / yearly miles? :confused:

You of course are welcome to do whatever you want. Me? I would never include trainer time in my yearly mileage total. Why? because I'm not riding miles I'm riding hours. And hours is exactly what I used to track when I cared about tracking training time.

I recently got a rear wheel speedometer, so This winter I will know how many miles I ride on my trainer. I've also started riding on a set of rollers. Do you count the miles towards your weekly / yearly miles? :confused:


Yes and if you ride with intensity they actually count more than road miles because there is no coasting involved. Why wouldn't they count?

Sure do. :cool:

No, not at all. I don't even track them. Just do my 3 spinveral sessions per week and forget about it.

I don't have a trainer, but I do have some Kreitler rollers. It has to be extremely crappy outside before I'll give up riding. Last year I rode to work in 10 degree weather. This morning I rode against a 25 mph north wind and light snow. It took forever, but I made it!

So, I ride the rollers maybe 20 days each winter when it would be foolhardy to ride the roads. And I count the "miles" just like real miles. Why not? The rollers are harder than riding outside. You can't coast, there's no scenery, I can't get out of the saddle much without wiping out...it's miserable! And it's still riding. This year I have an extra bike, so I'll probably use it for roller-riding, just to keep the aluminum scum off my tires. So I won't count those miles.

I guess I'm not that obsessive about the total mileage anyway. Logging a big yearly total isn't my goal...riding, peaking for races, and having fun are my goals.

Annual miles shmiles. Ride your bike.
Although I do use a computer, unlike my uber-purist goombah, MB1, I am starting to get the hang of not letting the numbers get me down. I don't always turn the computer on (depending on whether I'm out for a structured workout, when I do, or just riding, when all that really matters is the time of day), and I certainly don't reset my odometer Jan 1.
If I rode the rollers for an hour, because it's dark in the a.m. and I can't ride any later because I need to be home to get the kids out the door, then I rode the rollers for an hour. If I did threshold intervals on the rollers, those are done. Doesn't matter where I did them. No one is going to tell me that they don't count. If I rode aerobically, then I figure it was worth about an hour and 20 or 30 on the road, but it is what it is. No mas o menos.

Yes and if you ride with intensity they actually count more than road miles because there is no coasting involved. Why wouldn't they count?

No downhills, no coasting, you're turning the pedals, probably at a higher gear/resistance than on the road, through more crank revolutions for a given distance ... all the while boring your ass off.

They 'real' miles for sure. And if I didn't count 'em I'd never be able to do 'em.

I recently got a rear wheel speedometer, so This winter I will know how many miles I ride on my trainer. I've also started riding on a set of rollers. Do you count the miles towards your weekly / yearly miles? :confused:

The only thing I count on the trainer are the number of minutes until I can get off.

The only thing I count on the trainer are the number of minutes until I can get off.

Bingo.....Trainer miles should count double....

I ride year round. I can't stand exercise on anything that doesn't move, nor on anything indoors. On a business trip I tried the stationary bike in the fitness center - pure torture. Well, gotta go, time to go out and ride. :)

I count everything on the trainer, spinning, rollers, stationary... etc as time. I will have specified hourly or timed goals, but nothing distance. Everything indoors is time, 2 hours base, 8 minute intervals, 8 minute recovery, time in zone, etc. So, in short.... indoors counts towards hourly offseason/base goals, but mileage is mileage...outdoors.

just my 2 cents.

If I had an odometer that worked off the rear wheel, I would. Like one poster above, I track time more than miles. During the winter months, almost half of my saddle time is on the trainer as there isn't enough time/daylight to train on the road during the week. I get a 3 hour ride on Sundays and try to get 3 hours total on the trainer as well. There is some logic in what St. Hickey posted as well. Trainer miles are much more intense and are "longer" in theory. At least that's what my legs feel like when I finish.

I only count how many days a week I work out, so it's irrelevant to me.

Use counting to get the number that answers the question you're asking.