How many miles did you log on Strava this year? Collectively, we the digitally obsessed riders notched a whopping 3.6 billion miles on the social fitness site in 2016.
Those miles came via 161 million uploaded rides, with a cumulative elevation gain of 180 billion feet / 54.8 billion metres, according to a recent data package released by Strava. Riders in the US accounted for 32 million rides and UK cyclists uploaded 17.4 million files.
While there were plenty of commuting miles and ordinary rides uploaded, there were also files like Greg Van Avermaet's Olympic road race win uploaded. That last one garnered the most kudos (of the 1.3 billion given this year).
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Some 51 million photos were posted on Strava in 2016.
US state by state breakdowns
In the US, riders logged a collective 640 million miles and 29 billion vertical feet of climbing. Men is the US averaged 22.3mi per ride at 15.1mph and women in the US averaged 20.1mi at 12.8mph. Total average miles for US men was 430mi and 255mi for women.
Which state do you think is the fastest or packs the most hilly miles? This year rides uploaded from Louisiana topped the leaderboard with a 15.2mph average, ahead of Mississippi (14.7mph) and Florida (14.7mph). California filed the most activities (7.8 million), followed by Colorado (1.8 million).
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