Monthly Mileage Goal - January

[Veronica]

I like to do things on a monthly basis, rather than yearly. My yearly goal is just a total up of the 12 months. :D

January's goal is 370 miles. I'm planning on a 200 K, so that leaves me only 250 miles to get in otherwise. :p

V.

[RoadRaven]

Funny you should post this V

I have just finished a spread sheet of my last three full years of cycling. Its broken into months and gives me total kms for all Januarys etc biked, and averages for each month...

And this is how I am setting my overall goal for 2008...

In Jan 2005 I did 202.2km.
In Jan 2006 I did 202.16km.
In Jan 2007 I did 547.63km.

My average for January is 317.33km... so that is my minimum target for January 2008. However, I would like to reach at least 548km (which is more than my biggest January so far).

Looking forward to hearing about the 200K... I'm so impressed with cyclists who can do these enduro distances

[maillotpois]

I keep handwriting out those spreadsheets RR mentions, and then losing them in my office or who knows where. :rolleyes:

Good luck with your goals! I'm not sure I have any goals for January.

(I just got back from 4 days in Tahoe, and I have to say I was SHOCKED at how much my legs hurt skiing. That is a sure sign I have NOT been riding enough the last several months. Oh well.)

[RoadRaven]

I just made mine in Xcel, Mallio

I won't lose it then!
:p

(Cause like you, its something I do...)

[crazycanuck]

I'm working my way towards getting back on my bike. I'm doing all my strengthening exercises for the hammies & glutes so me leg doesn't wobble. (nothing like not having a pcl ligament :o) I am doing most of the physio suggested exercises in the pool as it's so much easier to do one legged squats in water! (at least on the bad leg) I've borrowed a trainer & will work on making a complete circle with my right knee :D

So, i'm not committing to km's for Jan but i'd like to commit to spending 40min on the trainer each day if possible. I have no choice :(

Geez, between swimming, pilates, water based exercises, land bases exercises, beach walking, doggie walking and bike time i may actually have time to do something else!

C

[kelownagirl]

Well let's see:

January 2006 - 0 km (didn't ride yet)
January 2007 - 53 km (rode the stationary bike but didn't have a trainer)

I think I can beat that. I'm hoping to ride the trainer twice a week. One 30 km ride and one ride that may be less.

So realistically, my goal:

January 2008 - 175 km on the trainer

[makbike]

January 2008 goal is......500 miles. Most if not all be logged on my trainer - winter has arrived in the Ohio Valley and I'm a weather wimp!

[Susan126]

I am going to try and keep a spreadsheet of my riding time beginning with the new year. January will be miles I do on a trainer at the gym. The weather in January is horrible for outdoor cycling, at least for me.

Question:

The gym bikes of course do not have cyclometers with mileage. Do you think it would be okay to replace my one hour of riding in spin class with my average mileage on my real bike? :confused:

Sue

[Veronica]

I never get as many miles on the trainer in an hour as I do outside in an hour. My average speed also tends to be a bit lower on the trainer.

I think it's because I use the trainer for intervals and the soft pedaling in between sets brings down my average. My HR average is always higher on the trainer. :cool:

It's your goal, you decide what counts.

V.

[RoadRaven]

Oh... my mileage goals are all on the road

I only count my inside/spin bike training in time. So in January (mid-summer here) I have no time on trainer... but come mid-winter I have road miles and trainer time (eg, in July this year I only did 328km on the road, but I also did 628minutes inside).

Hope your legs are easing Mallio... I have never snow-skied... one day mebbe...

[Veronica]

My mileage goals are all outside miles. I do have my speed sensor on my rear wheel though so I know what mileage is in the trainer.

V.

[snowtulip]

This is great, I am so much better with baby steps, so monthly is great!

My Jan. goals are:

Mountain bike - 80 miles (might be high, since we've had a lot of precipitation lately, but gonna give it a try when trail conditions allow). Doesn't seem like a lot, but mountain miles are so different then road miles and it's winter:mad:

Road - 120 miles (still prefer to be on my mountain bike; this will allow one road ride per week). Might include trainer miles here if the weather keeps up.

[Susan126]

I will just place my indoor time down as time and not mileage. Better than nothing. I will try and get out on my mountain bike on rainy weekends and the gym on weekdays. Once the weather gets a bit nicer I will start road riding.

[RoadRaven]

I only qualified my mileage goals as outside cause I am always interested to know whether others are indoors or outdoors - and because there is no wind or road resistence inside, the miles do register differently...

Of course, I am in the fortunate position of being in a country where I can ride outside all year round and am never snowed in...

[Susan126]

Of course, I am in the fortunate position of being in a country where I can ride outside all year round and am never snowed in...

Yes I have heard that some regions of middle earth has year round perfect weather. You must be from the Shire or Rivendell. I must live close to Isengard or Helm's Deep. I think they were quite cold. :D

[RoadRaven]

I live north of Rivendell and east of Mt Doom... but most of the year the region I live in (Hawkes Bay) does resemble the Shire :)

[ehirsch83]

I have a goal of 1100 for the month of January(so anywhere from 200-300 a week) I really want to hit 1200, but we will see what happens.

hehe :-) my mom thinks I'm nuts...

[Susan126]

RoadRaven, you live in a beautiful place! It's one of the places my DH wants to visit badly! Someday we will take a vacation to middle earth and we'll have to bring our bikes! :D

[RoadRaven]

ehirsche... thats miles per week I assume? Whoa... way to set a goal! My partner does 400-600 kilometre weeks depending on the time of year... pretty similar to your goal... I know how much riding and committment that takes. Well done you :)

Susan... if you ever do make it DownUnder, there are a bunch of us TEers here to call on and maybe ride with :)

[Susan126]

When that day comes RoadRaven, I will definitely post a "Yahoo and Yippee" in this forum! First Joe and I have to get the kids through college! Two friends of ours took their vacation last year to NZ and they had a fantastic time! The pictures the tales the rides they said it was like being in "Middle Earth" it's so beautiful down there. Joe and I were drowling with envy! I told them that someday that would be my dream vacation too!

:D

And Happy New Year everyone! It begins! Our new year with our new goals!

[Veronica]

I started off January well with a 59.7 mile ride up over Morgan Territory to Mount Diablo. All the gory details are in a write up on our website.

It was cold and windy.

V.

[Veronica]

We are a week into January now and I have 106 of my 370 miles so far. The weather forecast shows rain again tomorrow, but hopefully I'll be able to ride outside the rest of the week. Right now the weekend looks good and a tad warmer.

V.

[Veronica]

Right now I'm at 232 miles - 236 when I get home. I was pleasantly surprised to realize how much climbing I've done though - more than 15,000 feet so far. :)

The weather for the 200K on Saturday is looking dicey. I was so hoping for a nice, sunny day!

V.

[makbike]

My goal for January was 500 miles (trainer + road). As of today I'm at 451 miles so I think I'm in good shape. I've logged 372 miles on the trainer and 79 on the road.

[Andrea]

Hopefully I'll make 500 miles for the month. I've become so burnt out on riding in the cold that I've been riding the trainer more- where I get burnt out on being bored. I've had to come up with ways of making it interesting like doing a Spinervals video or like my workout yesterday: 1.5 back-to-back episodes of CSI where I pedaled high cadence during the show and low during the commercials mostly in HR Zones 3 and 4 (with some brief breaks in 2).

I've made it to 342 miles so far. If the weather turns a bit, 500 should be doable.

[smilingcat]

hee maybe I'll hit 150 mile on the road with 10,000 feet of climb. Just the road.

I have no idea about the trainer, well its more like GORK (God Only Really Knows). Only thing I know is I hink I will reach 15 hours or so on the trainer.

Well this is my goal. And I have few days to go so just maybe...

:D :D :D :D
Smilingcat

[snowtulip]

A cold and bronchitis have left me far from my goals! I have 59 indoor miles for the month, but at least this last round of antibiotics has really kicked in and I might even be able to venture outside!:D Now can I fit it all in before the end of January:rolleyes:

[SadieKate]

of ZERO!

It was minus 8 at our house this morning. Yesterday's high was 21. Forecast to continue for another few days.

[kelownagirl]

Well let's see:

January 2006 - 0 km (didn't ride yet)
January 2007 - 53 km (rode the stationary bike but didn't have a trainer)

I think I can beat that. I'm hoping to ride the trainer twice a week. One 30 km ride and one ride that may be less.

So realistically, my goal:

January 2008 - 175 km on the trainer


Hmmm, don't think I'll make it. I'm just over 100km right now. I'll be lucky if I get to 125.

[jobob]

So far, I have about 350 miles in the great outdoors and about 8 hours on the trainer.

I don't have my trainer set up to calculate relative distance, but I'm not concerned about it.

[Veronica]

hee maybe I'll hit 150 mile on the road with 10,000 feet of climb. Just the road.

:D :D :D :D
Smilingcat

That's a fair amount of climbing for that mileage!

V.

[smilingcat]

That's a fair amount of climbing for that mileage!

V.

Hi Veronica,

but who's talking? you are averaging 15,000/236=63.5 ft of climb per mile
and moi is averaging 10,000/150=66.6 ft of climb per mile.

SOOO YOU ARE DOING FAIR AMOUNT OF CLIMB YOURSELF... ;) ;)

Anyway, it will be a while before I can get my milage to 250 miles/month.


just crazy about hill climbs,
smilingcat

[Brandy]

I like to do things on a monthly basis, rather than yearly.


I'm finding that with where I'm at right now, I can't even make monthly goals! I'm just taking my training week by week right now, with some loose scheduling.

So far for January I'm at 506 miles but I wouldn't have been able to predict that 23 days ago...lol! :p

[CR400]

OK, my goal was originally 500 miles, but I have never ridden that much in one month especially in January. Right now it looks like I will end up a little over 200 miles all but 70 outside. Which is 86 miles better then I have ever done.

Ok, now I have a rant I get so sick of seeing all the miles you warm state people always get. I live in the snow belt of Ohio, which means either bitter cold or snow on the road, sometimes both. The last half of December, January, February, most of March and even into April. Just glad I don't live in Minnesota or Alaska. I guess it just angers me how unfair it is for northern states to be compared with warm states on places like bike journal:mad:. I would love to see you warm state girls come out and take a spin with me and my friends in January, you'd freeze to death in the first half hour;), and people claim the Belgians are hardy:). So when I get 8-12 miles outside almost every day I'm pretty happy. Long rides of 2 or more hours could be life threatening on some days, with ice, cold, and snow. Oh yeah go inside and after a hour your board to tears. We can't help to get the miles you do.

[Veronica]

I guess it just angers me how unfair it is for northern states to be compared with warm states on places like bike journal:mad:.


Who's comparing? I only really compare my stats to my stats. Yeah, I'll go look at what other people are doing. But they are not living my life.

I wish had time to ride both days on the weekend, but most of the time we have some chores to do.

I wish I could ride more during the week, like self employed people do... but that's not my life.

I wish I had a longer commute and a place to shower at work. But I don't.

My monthly goal is to ride more than I did last year for that month. It takes into account weather and other things, like when I have conferences or I'm off, because those things happen pretty much at the same time.

You could move. ;)

V.

[SadieKate]

Ok, now I have a rant I get so sick of seeing all the miles you warm state people always get. Just ignore 'em. There is also the assumption that everyone is a roadie not understanding that one dirt mile can be as hard or harder than one road mile.

It's all about you and your goals, not someone else needing to compare themselves to a total stranger to feel like they've accomplished something.

[smilingcat]

Well its not just mtn biker, road biker...

I do not race at the moment. Do not have a license. But its not even that at all. If you want to compare milage compare yourself to those in similar situation to yours. To compare to something you are not is.., well not very good. Like apples and oranges.

Yes racer type rodies log a lot of mile no doubt about it. To be competive, we used to say ride minimum of 200-250 miles a week. But many here are not. Many are just out for the exercise, the love of riding and the sense of freedom bike offers. Some of us are commuters. Some racers do not commute on a bicycle at all.

THEN!!! look at someon like Fredwina and he Randonrunner (sp) people. Racers are totally outclassed for distance and endurance by people like Fredwina. Comparing Fredwina to me is like the hare and the tortise. Sure on a short stretch I might out ride her but she'll be pedalling along when I'm exhausted and slumped over on a bush hours earlier.

Veronica compared me to her because we were up to similar sort of thing. roadie and climbing. Otherwise no comparison. Far as my 150 miles are concerned, that is just my goal. I find it very interesting that Brandy is riding over 500 miles this month. She lives not too far from me yet I harbor no sense of inferiority just because she is riding four times as much. Its great that she can ride 500 miles, do the agony ride, and climb nearly 4000 feet in 30 some odd miles. It isn't for me though. Her posting is an incentive for me. Just as Veronica's and Fredwina's post. I'm inspired by their feat. :cool: ;)

I think we need to see the personal achivements and goals of others as an incentive and inspiration for what we want to do. It isn't about competing to see who is riding faster, climbing more, or riding farther, or riding in heat or cold. Besides after years of competition, you WILL always find someone faster than you, can rider farther than you...

Sincerely,
Smilingcat

[jobob]

Well said smilingcat ! :)

CR400, I'm sorry that you can't get out & ride as much as you'd like, I do feel for you! It must be so frustrating. In the meantime I hope you ski or do other fun things in the wintertime.

I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say no way would I compare my mileage to anyone else's, much less anyone who lives in the land of ice & snow. :eek:

There are people who somehow, someway, lord knows how, manage to rack up mass quantities of miles despite the nasty weather where they live. They are superhuman and/or crazy :D - but no matter, they leave me awestruck.

But that's certainly no negative reflection on those who cannot, or choose not to, bike under difficult or potentially dangerous conditions.

Springtime will come for you, sooner or later. Hang in there. :cool:

[RoadRaven]

Some good riding here ladies
Well done
:)

I had an approximate goal for January of 547km on the road as that is what I did in Jan 2007. I am 46kms away from that with a week or so to achieve it. So am on track and feeling good about that
:)

[CR400]

Sorry Ladies,

I tend to be way to competitive with people. But I am actually happy with my now 200+ miles. And we are getting a warm up so I will be able to go outside if I don't have to work, and maybe hit that 300 for January.

[ehirsch83]

I've fallen short of my goal this month, oh well. Got bogged down with papers for school and then I went out Wed. and flatted about 8 miles into my ride without a tube(AHH bad me!!), and had to be picked up, and then Thursday flatted towards the end of the first part of the ride(did a group ride and was going to put in an extra 1.5 hours after it) but after changing the flat, I realized there was a hole forming in the tire and the tube was popping through :eek: so I rode home. So all in all I fell about 4 hours short this week, which is putting me about a 90 miles short for the month. Oh well, I still made it over 800 so far with a few more days to go. I should hit about 950-1000 for the month still.

Smilingcat- that was a great post you wrote! I loved reading it. You are dead on with what you said.

[Mr. Bloom]

I hadn't thought about my goal in monthly terms until today.

Today, I exceeded 100 miles for January...pretty good given weather issues. So, Feb goal is 100.

March is 250. For April through August, 400/mo is reasonable. This will get me past my goal of 2,500 miles, so I guess my goal is too low.

So, at this point, if I don't exceed my annual goal by 1,000 miles, I guess I should be disappointed:o:(

[maillotpois]

Smilingcat- that was a great post you wrote! I loved reading it. You are dead on with what you said.


Yeah. She's a little like Yoda.

[makbike]

I hit my goal of 500 and still have a few days to go. Most of these miles are trainer miles given the winter temps and the fact that I'm a weather wimp. If the weather holds tomorrow I'll ride after school and maybe break 100 road miles for the month. I'm off to a good start!

[Veronica]

I fell short of my goal by 98 miles.

I've put an entry on our website about the month's training and how it went.

V.

[RoadRaven]

My average for January is 317.33km... so that is my minimum target for January 2008. However, I would like to reach at least 548km (which is more than my biggest January so far).

Yay... got there.
I did a total of 677 kilometres outside, 568km of that was on the road. So well and truly achieved what I wanted.

Congrats to those of you who reached the numbers you set yourselves...

V, so close! You can easily make that up in February... weather is getting better and better in your neck of the woods isn't it?

Mallio - too funny. My friend used to call me Yoda when we were young teenagers... but not because I was wise, more because of all the information I seemed to remember (even though most of it was useless - like the dot over the letter "i" is called a 'tittle' )

[Brandy]

Right now I'm at 648 miles for January and I still have to commute home, so at least another 8 miles...possibly more.

[indysteel]

Sniff, sniff.

I didn't get to ride at all this January, or last come to think of it. There were a couple of okay days, but the salt and grime on the streets was too much for me and my steel bike.

I don't think I rode my trainer either, but I've been taking about 3 spinning classes a week and trying my best to run. I hate winter. We're supposed to get six inches of snow tonight. On Tuesday, mind you, we had tornadoes. As they say, if you don't like the weather in Indiana, wait five minutes and it'll change.

Kudos to you ladies who were able to ride this past month!

[smilingcat]

did manage to go out for a short ride to close out January.

It was bit cold and bit windy. It was a nice ride though. The ride made me think about the why I ride? do I need to ride this much? ... a new thread.

smilingcat