What is your goal for 2006?

[Embellina]

Health:
- 4,000 cycling miles for 2006.
- Bike commute at least once a week.
- Eat three square meals, two healthy snacks and nothing after dinner/while watching TV.
- Lift weights 2x a week.
- Swim 2x a week.

Financial:
- Contribute $4,000 to my 401(k).
- Reduce credit card debt. (I can't even put how much it is or my goal, it makes me a little too naseous to think about -- that's what I get for buying a new bike!)

Spiritual:
- E-mail or call at least one long-distance friend once a week.
- Read one good book every month.
- Attend church 2-3x month.

[arnaew]

Never done this before so here goes:

Physical: Continue working with weights, and attempt to reveal all that fabulous muscle that is lying beneath the most persistent fat mass known to humankind

Cycle at least twice a week with a minimum collective distance of 100k.

Ride to the top of Norton Summit without stopping (have done it twice so far, but with breaks - ow!)

Find bike shorts that do not make my soft bits feel as though my chamois is made of sandpaper

Mental: Stop listening to people making fun of middle aged women in bike shorts

Stop listening to voices in own head about middle aged women in bike shorts

Accept that the goddesses flying past me on the road are just thirty years younger; it's not personal

Find someone to ride with

[betagirl]

Well my short term goal is to actually get my bike into my trainer and start riding the dang thing again. It's been sitting in my garage since late september. I'm sure Ferris (my Lemond) is very upset with me.

I'm so p*ssed at myself. I suppose I could blame the flare up I had of crohn's disease, but I *could* have ridden some. I lost all my speed and endurance within a month's time so I got discouraged so I stopped riding altogether. Then when I felt better I had just fallen out of the habit.

Ok so 2006 goals:

1) Start training in January versus my normal slacking off til March/April

2) Complete either the ride across indiana (RAIN) again or do the seattle-to-portland (STP) ride for the first time.

3) Actually enter a race or 2

4) Complete RAGBRAI for the 4th year in a row

5) Log a total of 5000 miles (road and trainer, I'll cheat) I did 2700 road miles in 05 (between March and September) and my goal was 3000. Doh! So I think I can reach 5000 if I stay motivated (and well).

6) Ride at least 6 centuries (not including RAIN, STP, or RAGBRAI)

7) Do at least 1 fundraiser/charity ride

[mtkitchn]

Another newbie's biking goal for 2006:

To finish this event I signed up for and which is getting me into biking in the first place!

http://www.cycletour.co.za/event.asp

Anybody else going to South Africa for this ride?

I have lots of little goals that I hope to reach while I train for this event. Unfortunately, most of my training lately has been in eating peanut brittle and watching TV. Not encouraging...

Going to try to finish my first metric century on Sunday, which is 33 miles further than I've ever ridden before.

[annie]

So many incredible goals..........

I have only one goal -
To decide what I want to do with my life, right now. so I can quit worrying about it and RIDE MY BIKE!!!!

annie

[mmelindas]

Well, my goal as a newbie biker of less than a month, at my ancient age of 62 and weight of 300lbs is:

(1) ride at least 20 miles by fall's end

(2) lose at least 100 lbs by Christmas or New Years

(3) have to take LESS medication, hurt less and have more energy!

(4) meet some of the TE gals at Little Red Riding Hood in June

(5) LIVE LONG, LIVE WELL AND LIVE LEAN.....AHHHHHHH...

[Duck on Wheels]

My goal for this year was to get in good enough shape to ride the Cindy and not make a fool of myself. Well ... but for riding a really dorky bike, I guess I did that. Made it to 43 miles. My longest ride ever ... so far.

Now my goal is to get back on the bike and do some more. After Easter week, that is, when the dorky bike and I are both back in Wisconsin. Before then we'll see if I can translate some of my newfound bike muscles into keeping up with DH while hiking in Scotland.

Not having as much success with my third goal of losing some weight. But I'll keep working on that one too.

Oh, and goal 4: sell the bike when I leave here. I have a better one back in Norway.

[uk elephant]

Seems I have similar goals to Bikeless (my mom)...:
1. Keep up with BF (and bikeless's DH) when hiking in Scotland at easter (and any other future hikes).
2. Loose a bit of weight, or at least get a bit more fit. I don't own a scale, but I want to get back into clothes that used to fit and now no longer do.

A couple of cycling goals:
1. Do the 40mile charity ride I just signed up for in June
2. Get enough base miles in to convince myself that I can do the AidsRide with Trek420 in 2007.
3. Ride every week. I have no idea what a realistic milage goal would be so I won't set one, but I want to try to do at least one ride a week on top of the usual commuting.

...and finally, goals for life in general:
1. complete my thesis
2. travel more, see the world (or at least as much as I can afford to see)...I'm already off to a good start. I have a work-trip to Poland coming up in a week, and then easter hiking in Scotland. Two new countries to add to my list of places seen

[Kimmyt]

Cycling goals (also a n00b!)

1. Get better at climbing hills!!!
2. Be able to hang with the big boys!
3. Stop making excuses, and GET OUT AND RIDE
4. Century by the end of September
5. Commute to work more than once a week (or if I get a different job, figure out a way to still commute to work at least 1x a week). Start NO LATER than April.

Other goals

1. Pay off credit card by year's end
2. Raise at least (hopefully more) than $1000 for Climb4Life (see signature)
3. Get my lead head back

[Tater]

Goals for the year...
- get better at climbing!
- improve core strength.
- ride the following charity rides:
- Cycle for Independence, 62 miles in Boise, in May
- LRRH, 100miles, Utah, June
- Bob LeBow Bike Tour, 62 miles, Boise, June
- Blue Cruise, 100 miles, Boise, August
- finish the year with over two thousand miles.

[Susan126]

My goal is to get back into the physical condition I had before my foot surgery on December 13th. I have been in a cast and on crutches for 3 1/2 months. As a matter of fact, today I go in to see my doctor and he promised at my last visit that this would be the day I may shed this boot cast and begin riding again. (Shhhh I've been spinning on my trainer for two weeks!) Slow to start (of course). Now the hard work begins. But I'm up for the challenge. My leg looks like a stick with a noodle attached. It's a sad pathetic shadow of the calf it used to be. Before the surgery I was a road cycling - mountain biking fiend. I hope by June to be up to at least 50 miles again on my road bike and I want to be able to ride Lake Sawyer's technical trails again. I don't think I will be doing any centuries this summer? Or maybe I will? LOL I'm pretty tenacious. But next year . . . look out!

[maillotpois]

Cool thread - thanks for bumping it!

Goals:

- To help, encourage, goad, motivate, etc. the group of team in training coaches I am coaching to complete the Death Ride this year (130 miles, 5 mountain passes, 14,000 feet of climbing). These are some great women who have been cycling for forever, but this will be a big challenge for them and I am so excited to be part of this!!! (DH and a couple of other stronger riders are also part of the group I am coaching, and it will be great to work with them on completeing the event, but I think it's really going to feel special to see some of these women who will no doubt struggle on the training and in the event make the time cut off and complete the 5 passes.)

- To complete 5 double centuries (2 more than last year) and to feel better than I did last year on one of them in particular! (Mt. Tam Double)

- To be there for my daughter. To laugh with her and make her feel important, cool, loved. Maybe do another metric century on the tandem while we're at it.

Well, I think those are the main ones. I will probably do something with the Furnace Creek 508 (2 person or maybe solo if I get really stupid). But right now that's not a "goal", just an inevitability. And I just haven't decided yet what to do with it.

[Popoki_Nui]

I am amazed at how fit you ladies are! I'm getting tired just reading the mileage some of you do. Centuries and double centuries!
For 2006 I am trying to:
-increase my yearly distance to 2500km minimum (almost made it in 2004, flagged a little in 05)...making good progress now..<touching wood>
-do at least one metric century (100km), and hopefully more
-lose 15kg weight (about 35 pounds)
-worry less! I'm a total worrywart...I really need to get control of worry/anxiety/depression naurally, without pills and potions. Uh-uh. I need less stress and a little more mañana.

Good luck to you all on your goals!
~Sherry.

[DrBee]

My goals for 2006:

cycling goals
1) buy a nice roadbike (actually I'd be happy with anything lighter and faster than my Trek7.2FX)
2) start commuting for in-town errands
3) ride 10-20 miles/day at least 3 days per week
4) take more fun rides with my husband and kids
5) teach my daughter to ride without training wheels.

other goals:
1) pay off credit cards
2) play with my kids more
3) relax

that shouldn't be too hard, right???

[Duck on Wheels]

Seems I have similar goals to Bikeless (my mom)...:
1. Keep up with BF (and bikeless's DH) when hiking in Scotland at easter (and any other future hikes).

NOT the same person. Both very handsome and charming, tho. And strong hikers.