2013 Cycling Goals

[murielalex]

Happy New Year, everyone!

These are my goals for this year:

1. 4000 miles
2. Learn to ride hills (I live in the flats)
3. Work on speed so I can ride with my friends in the 20+ pacelines and not get dropped after 10 miles
4. Complete the Smart Ride (Miami to Key West) I'd trained for this year, but didn't do due to injury days before.
5. Have more fun!

What are yours?

[Dog]

I love setting goals. This year was a great year of outdoor accomplishments for me :-) So, I have lots on my 2013 list for various activities. For cycling I hope to continue to ride through the winter (did that in 2012) and and repeat some of my favorites including a couple of overnighters. Here are some new rides I haven't done before:

Here's my preliminary list:

Chilly Hilly - February
Tour de Blast or High Pass Challenge (Mt. Saint Helen)
Crater Lake Century
Couer D' Fondo
Get Your Guts In Gear (3-day fundraising ride for corohns)
Olympic Discovery Trail (bike/camping)
Fort2Fort
Mt. Constitution

I hope everyone has a healthy and happy year!

~ Dog

[Bike Writer]

These are mine, compiled in the beginning of December. Cold and snow in Michigan deprive me of riding so I turn to dreaming of next season.

· Ride 5 new trails or paths
· Do at least 2 urban rides in a city
· Take my bike on at least one vacation
· Rent a bike on one vacation in a style different than what I normally ride
· Take on one bicycle advocacy initiative
· Go on a bike ride with a kid under 10 yrs old who is not a relative
· Test ride some different bikes than what I normally ride
· Ride a tandem
· Do at least one charity ride
· Do at least 2 group rides
· Train to ride a trip of 40 miles
· Ride 1,000 miles next year
· Increase my riding average speed to 10 mph
· Ride a real mountain bike trail

I've done some preliminary route scouting and mapping to help achieve these goals and I've broken out the trainer to help my body be ready for next season. I loathe the trainer, but like the rewards of it.

[luvmyguys]

Bike Writer, I love some of your goals - especially the one about riding with a kid under the age of 10!

I haven't been riding long, so mine are modest, but here they are:

• Conquer the clipless pedals
• Train for and ride a Team in Training century
• Get better on hills (I live in Flatsville too)
• Get dh a bike and ride a lot with him!
• Up my average speed to over 20 mph, so I can ride with the faster pace groups (and in some cases, ride with a group period)

I've started to tackle the first, and I think I'm going to plan on the Cross Timbers Classic Bike Rally in May for the second. The fourth will be money dependent, and I'll hopefully make good progress on the third and fifth just training for the century.

[shootingstar]

I've been always a bit of a sloth in setting in advance, cycling goals at the beginning of each year. I make it simple for myself:

*Continue to bike as frequently as I have in other years in whatever city I am living in.
*Encourage myself to cycle several times per week during winter. More often, if not also, daily, for other seasons.
*2-3 multi-day long touring bike rides with my packed panniers.
*Continue to make cycling my main mode of transportation. (I guess I have to if I'm car-free...)
*Do at least 2-4 100 km. day rides.
*Eat mindfully.
*Learn some new bike routes.
*Support my city in new cycling infrastructure initiatives by participating in discussions and riding /using such infrastructure, tell other people about it too.
*Share cycling love and make it integrated into daily experiences....through my personal blog.

Dumb as this maybe I don't set overly high expectations and keep goals vague....it allows me to exceed them. Crazy psychology, but it works for me. After all, cycing is meant to be fun for me.

[girlontheroad]

Ok here is the start of this list with several ideas lifted from those here.

1. Ride my age (46 miles) at least once if not more. Currently I can do 21 miles
2. Increase my average speed to 18 mph or more
3. Ride a trail
4 use mt hybrid for errands regularly
5 try to ride 3 to 4 times per week wheneveR I am not traveling.

Learning new routes is there too but I tend to do that anyway

Happy new year and good riding.

[ehirsch83]

Happy New Year, everyone!

These are my goals for this year:

1. 4000 miles
2. Learn to ride hills (I live in the flats)
3. Work on speed so I can ride with my friends in the 20+ pacelines and not get dropped after 10 miles
4. Complete the Smart Ride (Miami to Key West) I'd trained for this year, but didn't do due to injury days before.
5. Have more fun!

What are yours?

You have Claremont and just past there you have San Ann- tons of hills to be had

You can drive out to the West Orange Trail start and ride from there or check out Winter Garden Wheel Works- they have a women's ride

[murielalex]

You have Claremont and just past there you have San Ann- tons of hills to be had

You can drive out to the West Orange Trail start and ride from there or check out Winter Garden Wheel Works- they have a women's ride

Thanks! I have friends that head to Claremont about once a month. As soon as I get my ankle back up to speed, I plan on joining them. I will definitely check out Winter Garden Wheel Works. We tried to get a women's ride going down here, but could never get a consistent group going since most belonged to clubs already, and there were always scheduling conflicts. Been talking to a few women about starting up a fun, social ride with a nice meal at the end.