wow I'm in high school and get the whole summer off with no part time job and i only ride about 2-3 times a week the whole year. Do you guys do anything except bike, like spend time with family, go to parties, etc?? Unless you race competitively i can't understand why.
I will elaborate a bit. I start work very early in the morning, and while I don't have a set 40 hour work week there are days when I am home usually by 2 or 2:30 in the afternoon. My wife works until 5:30 and my daughter is in daycare. If I get home at a reasonable hour I will hop on my road bike, and depending on how late it is will take a ride for x amount of miles. Again, this isnt everyday, but fairly often. Ride is over, walk up to my daughters school, then its home with her til Mommy gets home.
Occasionally I can arrange for my wife to pick up our daughter so I can do a mtb ride, but honestly after a day of work I am pretty beat and I usually dont have the energy to drive an hour and then ride for an hour or so, then back home. Makes for a very long day.
Weekends we split the chores, I usually ride early on saturday to get it out of the way to be available for the rest of the day. On sunday I will ride depending on everyones schedule. Sometimes its another mtb ride, usually a road ride. I try to accommodate if my wife wants to do anything or if we have any functions to attend.