I just counted in my head, and also have 22 sets on my route to Paddington coincidentally!
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I’m a sweat monster, so cycling as regular transport doesn’t work for me unless I can shower and change at the other end. In “normal” times, I usually go to the gym after work and cycle straight home from there and shower when I get home.
I usually commute on a Pearson fixie, but I broke a crank a couple of weeks ago and I’m commuting on a Brompton at the moment. Proper cycling kit on a Brompton doesn’t look so cool, although the Brompton is proving to be as quick as the fixie.
I log all of my commuting mileage because it all adds up over a year, but any “training” benefit I get is a bonus.
The Touché?
Had mine 12 years and it’s only had one new sprocket and a set of cables and brake pads.
Fixed is awesome for no brake wear!
I had one of the original Touches. I went through a phase of doing all of my long winter rides on it as well as my commuting, so probably did 50,000km+ on it over 9 years before the frame broke at the downtube, just in front of the bottom bracket. I’d already snapped a couple of cranks on that bike before the frame went. I think the fatigue cycles of repeated maximum loading from setting off from the lights repeatedly eventually causes a brittle failure.
Before I became a “proper” cyclist, I used to commute on cheap Ridgeback hybrids. They’d typically last 2 years before the frame broke. I’d take them back to the shop, point at the “lifetime warranty” and they’d give me a new bike because it wasn’t worth swapping the components on a £200 bike 
When the Touche broke I replaced it with the steel “Now you see me”. Really should have gone for the Al because the steel frame just feels a bit more bendy. I’ve broken 2 cranks on this one in the last 4 years 
Really?
That’s intriguing, as the Reynolds 725 on my Steel Ribble winter bike feels lovely - such a nice ride, compared to the BMC RoadMachine (which is proper stiff!)
The Touche I have also has a plush ride quality, but that’s due to the fact I managed to squeeze a set of 28mm winter tyres on there.
Sounds like you have way too much power to be snapping all of those components 
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Ive got a steel Fuji track i commute on. bought smaller chainring and bigger sprocket (42/17) and that’s it in 6 years. Its probably 10 minutes slower coming home than a geared bike and marginally slower going in (net downhill going in and 3 steeper climbs of a few minutes coming home) . I got it in a sale new for £250 quid from evans. I’d probably spend that every couple of years servicing my geared bike commuting on it.
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I tell you, it was a bit of a stretch doing 28km each way on it 
If you get a puncture (once! After I’d changed the tyres the same week), getting the chain nice and tight again, in the dark and wet is a mission.
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I do 17km each way so not too bad, but hills are enough you feel it on way home. Why do p. only happen when its cold, dark and wet. Rear is a right PITA when rushing
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I was doing hilly 130km rides every weekend on a 48x17 gear on mine in the run up to my first Lanza. Uphills were hard, steep downhills were terrifying
Funnily enough, I was super strong on the bike that year and did a 5:50 bike split 
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Brilliant!
Not particularly Strava but sounds like Garmin have had quite a big ransomware attack and might be off for a few days while they get systems back online. So workouts might be slow to get through.
Would doing it the old fashioned way with a cable work?
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Just done my swim from last night…it seemed a shame to not upload the 2.5km at 1:25/100m
News from the losers website
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You’ll have 5 minutes on me out of Ullswater 
If I enter…my darling wife doesn’t want my dying on Swirral Edge 
You’ll easily have five minutes on me on the bike…
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