A good goal, BUT, remember that if you start and finish a race, there is NO SHAME in being last (from she who has been there...). :DQuote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
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A good goal, BUT, remember that if you start and finish a race, there is NO SHAME in being last (from she who has been there...). :DQuote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
SheFly
My goal is to be able to keep up with the bike club riders. It would be nice to be able to just show up whenever I want and ride without having to meet someone there my speed, and not get dropped. I know there is no 'shame in being last', but it's more fun to ride with company.
I can't remember exactly when I got my Ruby (maybe a little over a year), so am not sure of exactly how many miles I road last year, but the odometer says 3500 miles! This is my second year of riding.
Since I started riding in September I have no idea what appropriate goals would be for 2011 but my initial thought is that I won't be happy with less than 3000 miles and that would include single bike and tandem. I want at least two longer trips out of state or out of the country in 2011 on the tandem with an average total number of rides per week at 4.5. I want to be able to ride a minimum of 35 miles on my single bike and a minimum of 75 on the tandem.
I guess I'll see whether these are attainable for someone who has just started so recently, and it will take cooperation of the tandem captain as well or some of this won't be attainable.
My goal is to stay well and injury free the whole year. I plan to ride 4 to 5 days a week and lose more weight. I want to be faster and stronger and go up big hills without stopping. Who knows maybe a sprint tri in August,or CCX in the fall.....well for now that's enough. Trekgranny you can do STP no problem just keep training!
I want to increase my weight lifiting weight and my reps in resistance training by 10% every three months and to increase my road mileage by 25%. The second goal should be the easiest since my road biking this year was constantly interfered with by injury, life stresses, adjusting to being a care giver and terrible windy weather. I can hope for no injury and can learn to conquor the wind, the other two should be a bit smoother as well. Here's hoping. Plus I want to get the five pounds I put on over the holidays plus another 10 pounds off to reach my goal and keep it there.
Jelee- I love your tag line, I often feel the same way.
Good luck to us all.
A couple months ago there was a 2011 goal thread and I posted the following goals:
-I am going to increase my average speed, on flats and hills;
-I am going to get a professional fitting and increase my comfort on the bike; (Done, not sure I am quite "there" yet with comfort, but it is better.)
-I am going to ride the Adventure Corps Laguna Challenge, but do two laps instead of 1;(I could only do 1 lap last year, 44 miles, 4400 feet of climbing, lap two involves another 25ish miles and another 3300 feet of climbing, there is a third lap, which I want to do, but not sure of, which is another 22ish miles and another 3300 feet of climbing.)
-I am going to ride at least 50 miles a week.
DH and I will be in good enough shape to just do a century without feeling like we want to train for it. (almost there already)
-I will get down to my goal weight.
I still have all of these as my goals, so I guess when I wrote this I was on the money :)