Cycling goals for 2007

I have avoided this thread for a while... I don't have much inspiration for goals in 2007, it seems like I did all the firsts in 2006!

But, nonetheless:

- UBC Triathlon (sprint) in March: Work on my speed, especially on the bike. Although I am not a runner, I placed better on the 5k run than on the bike last year. I want to be explosive on the bike and still have the power to run. (I don't care much about the swim for now.)

- Vancouver Half-Marathon in May: I just ran my first 21.1 today, so I know I can do it. After the triathlon I'll intensify my running and I hope to have another strong finish.

- Have loads of cycling fun through the summer, climb big hills, go for long long long long rides with my club and with friends.

- Vancouver Triathlon in September: I am not quite committing to this one yet, but I might do that, sprint distance again, but the swim here is open water and the terrain much hillier. My goal here would be simply to finish.

- Focus on swimming in the Fall of 07 perhaps? Who knows...

I have lots of other big plans for other areas of my life in 2007 so I don't want to put too much pressure on my shoulders for the sports part, which is first and foremost a past time for me. But working out and being in the outdoors does help with stress management, and allows me to eat more... and I love to eat!!

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Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama

Actually the Shiner Bash has 3 routes, all on the same day. One starts in Katy, one in South Austin and one in San Antonio. All roads lead to Shiner, TX though! DH said not counting the BP MS150 (Houston to Austin) it is the best ride in terms of support and fun. We plan to do it this year!

We will be skipping the MS150 this year (we did it 2005 and 2006). I hope the Shiner Bash lives up to DH's hype. :)

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Cool!! I can't wait! I'll keep an eye out for you. Any ride that has all roads leading to Shiner is cool in my book. ;)

Well, I'm having a slow start this year - I just can't seem to get into the gym! It is snowing nice and hard outside right now for my commute home!

1. Plan my Second Annual McDowell Mountain Bike Fun Camp second weekend of February (I've already sent out invites).

2. Ride the Cindarella metric - which means drive or fly to SF Bay area, (take a little road trip to an old ride that I have done many many years in the past.)

3. Ride my mountain bike more often.

4. I increased my climbing ability last year; see if I can up it one more notch this year. Climb, climb and more climbing.

5. Increase the intensity of my women's developmental rides. Try to get more women - not just beginners, interested and showing up for rides.

6. Ride the Casa Grande metric (for spring warmup miles) if the two weddings in March don't coincide with the ride.

7. No other ambitions, big or little, yet. I did a 450 mile, 6 day ride last year. This year, maybe I'll do it on a motorcycle?

8. Maybe gear up for cyclocross in the fall. If we have any decent cyclocross racing in our state this coming year.

Now that it actually is 2007, anyone else want to get their goals out there?

I just want to ride, as much as I can for as long as I'm allowed to, even if that means on the trainer. But I want to ride as much as I can with my husband over the next few months, because we are going to have a long time when we can each ride separately but will have a hard time riding together (because someone will have to stay with the baby until he or she is old enough to come along). Skills, mileage goals, conquering my stupid clipless pedals, all that stuff: pfft. Out the window for now. After the baby is born and I've recuperated, I really want to take more mountain biking classes, because that was so much fun. For now, I just want to ride until I can't do it anymore.

I've settled on wanting to ride 3500 miles in 2007. Also doing at least a 4 day tour through NY and parts of MA with DH.
Oh, and a BIG goal of mine is to get through the 3500 miles with no major injuries!

My goal for this year is riding as much as possible of the ALC6 trip from SF to LA. Which therefore means another goal is to get in shape by june. I suppose the final goal will be to keep up the riding after the big ride in june as well.

A few ideas-

I'd like to work on (am working on now) speed- time in the saddle -distance.
I want to do at least 200km/wk plus my swim & running (might stop running as i want to improve my swim stroke)

To complete the Karri cup in March...no matter how hot it is..(please don't let it be 38c again!!!)

To do a 200km ride towards the end of the year with Audax (randonneuring australia)

Just to get better at biking really.

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I made none of my goals last year. :mad:

So, this year, I'll just have to try again.

I'd like to do a short solo tour. No more than a week or so.

DH and I will ride the KATY

I made none of my goals last year. :mad:

So, this year, I'll just have to try again. Here they are in order of importance (mostly):

I'd like to do a short solo tour. No more than a week or so.

DH and I will ride the KATY trail and spend a little while being tourists in St. Louis.

I will bike commute as often as possible.

As for mileage, I think I'll ride the year. 2007 (or more) miles sounds good.

Oh, and some time this year I'm going to ride my age. Fifty-mumble miles will be fun.

I've never set any specific goals other than to just ride more and improve a bit on speed, climbing and technique. In 2006 I logged about 2300 miles, but could have done much more if I hadn't started slacking off in September. Life just got in the way for many reasons.

I plan to ride Cinderella in March, Chico Wildflower in April. Maybe Strawberry Fields Forever in May. Metrics, most likely, but we'll see how I am before the Wildflower. DH is thinking of doing Climb to Kaiser this summer. I have no inclination to do this ride (way too hard for me), but will probably train with him as if I were. Climbing is my big bugaboo. I have the legs, it's the lung power I lack. Some of it may be EIA, but even with inhalers, I really slow down on hills and don't have much stamina. Need to get back to doing hill repeats once a week or so.

For the winter months I want to ride my trainer at least three days a week, do resistance training two-three days a week, and do longer rides on the weekends weather permitting. I feel as if I have to rebuild my endurance base from last summer. It's not completely gone, but last Sunday's flat 30 miles told me I need to get back to work. Looking forward to DST when I can ride after work. Doing the trainer for an hour at 5 am is no fun :p .