goals- the finishing year and the new year

[Veronica]

We' re going over my spring break - closer to Easter. Haven't picked a company yet. We've done tours with three, including Rim, and have been happy with all. Probably going to go with Western Spirit. Their tour, the week I have off, starts the day before both Rim's and Escape Adventures.

Veronica

[indysteel]

Have a great time! This will be our first trip to Moab. We opted for the three-day WRT itinerary; I sure hope it doesn't kill us. We wanted to have enough time to get some hiking in as well and the dates worked better all the way around. The only hitch is that there's a classic car showing coming into town about the time we're leaving. Hotel rooms were hard to come by, so it's a good thing I started planning this as early as I did.

[Roadtrip]

Oh yes - it would be nice to finish next year without injury

THIS. Yes. THIS.

Outside of out-riding the injury bug, my goals are a.) increase mileage which has been hard with work, so short evening rides and longer weekend rides b.) weight loss and good food choices c.) winter work indoors for strong spring riding d.) Metric Century before it gets stupid hot/humid or later in 2012... e.) have FUN.

Shannon

[Veronica]

It's a beautiful area, hard to see it all in one trip I think. We did Arches over Christmas one year, did a Maze trip one year, went back just for some mountain biking one year...

What hotel did you decide on? We've always splurged and gone to Sorrell River Ranch. It's expensive, but very quiet.

Veronica

[indysteel]

It's a beautiful area, hard to see it all in one trip I think. We did Arches over Christmas one year, did a Maze trip one year, went back just for some mountain biking one year...

What hotel did you decide on? We've always splurged and gone to Sorrell River Ranch. It's expensive, but very quiet.

Veronica

It's the Adventure Inn Moab. It's nothing fancy. I don't know that we've ever splurged on accommodations. We tend to go with something middle of the road and/or use my government rate. We're also spending a week in Maine (Acadia) next September. Both of those trips, even on the cheap, are going to add up. One of these days--maybe our next trip to Paris--I'd like to stay in a more upscale hotel.

We spent a week in Zion last year; I can't wait to return to Utah. I imagine this won't be our last trip. The state is dense with possibilities.

[maillotpois]

April - ....and Thom and I are planning on doing the Devil Mountain Double together.

Glad you're still planning this. I've encouraged several friends to do it to take their doubles up a notch. Let's see how many are speaking to me after.

[kcmpls]

For this year, my goal was to hit 1000 miles. I hit it in September and put on a couple hundred since then. I also had a goal of losing weight, which I totally failed at.

Next year my goal is 2000 miles and to lose 80 pounds. Since I'm riding all winter this year, I should get off to a good start.

[OakLeaf]

This year was kind of a bust for me. I started the year injured, and after I healed up I still struggled emotionally pretty much all year. Still, I managed to set some times at shorter distances that I was really happy with, which has to have been all a matter of experience. It means a lot to me that my times have dropped even when I'm out of shape physically.

My goal this year is a sub-4-hour marathon, which would be a BQ for my age. This time, if I qualify, I'm running, before they change the qualifying times again! I'm signed up for the Champaign-Urbana Illinois Marathon the last weekend in April. If I don't BQ then, I may try again in Columbus in October - but then again, maybe not.

[tealtreak]

Did you set goals for last year? Do you have goals for next year?

I had hoped to ride 4000 miles this year. Due to injuries, I didn't quite make it, but with one more possible ride on the 31st, I will reach between 3760 and 3780. That's still an "A" by percentage, so I'm pretty happy. My other big goal was to ride the 109 mile distance in El Tour de Tucson, but that didn't happen due to the hip issues this fall. I did log over 75,000 feet of elevation gain, including a ride up Mt. St. Helens, and 3 very cool rides in Ireland: around the Dingle Peninsula and two rides in County Clare near Doolin and Kilfenora.

New goals? Mainly, I want to keep having fun on my bike, it makes me smile and is helping me maintain my weight at a level proportionate to my height for the first time in my adult life (that would be several decades!). It also has given me and the DH a lot of wonderful time together, and has been very positive for our relationship. I would like to set my mileage goal for 4000 again for next year, but it will all depend on whether the hip, legs and back will cooperate. The actual miles aren't nearly as important as the rest of the stuff

What about you?

Having fun is what it is about! I came back from a ride cut short by a brake cable blow out to read this and realized...That Is IT!!!! I must force myself to start carrying more tools and learn to use them! (: New years Resolution done...haha if I keep it that is......)

[GLC1968]

I can't find where I recorded my goals for 2011 but I accomplished a lot in the year, so I'm sure I hit most of them. I did my first Olympic tri, I dropped 5 minutes off my sprint tri 5K time, I completed my first half-marathon, I did my first sub-30 min 5K, I bested all my previous tri times (not that there were that many!) and I lost more fat.

This year, the goals are similar:

• Continue on the fat loss - should meet my overall goal in 2012.
• Keep running - continue to PR on running events, particularly half-marathons.
• Ride more. I seriously missed this last year and I want to do much more of it this year including the Crater Lake Century again.
• Hit 1:45/100y swim times.

Stretch goals:
Sub 2-hr half marathon
Ride up Laurelwood without stopping

[deeannef]

Hi, my min. goal of 8000 miles was hit at the start of December, I should hit my goal of 8400 miles by the holidays and end with a metric century on New Year Eve day. I managed to climb of 110,000 feet this year. These are both personal bests. For 2012, I want to ride at least the same amount of miles, but do the Crater Lake century ride in Oregon, ride around the circumference of Lake Tahoe and do a double metric century, with hopefully several other centuries thrown in for good measure.

[Chile Pepper]

I didn't have any riding goals this year, as I was tired of missing them! As it turns out, I am about to hit 3,000 km on my next ride, which is the goal I kept missing (and way more than I rode in previous years). Needless to say, I'm chuffed!

I was down to my ideal weight mid-year, but I've put on five pounds since then that I can't seem to bring myself to lose. I'm using Veronica's sig line as a mantra lately to try to focus my efforts. Finally, I found a great anusara yoga teacher in Santiago. I'm hoping a weekly class will help me stay focused on my other (nonphysical) goals.

[OakLeaf]

Oh, I love Anusara! My favorite teacher is Anusara trained (though not certified yet), and when we visit my in-laws there's an Anusara studio just down the road from them. I pretty much slacked off yoga all summer - I had a few poses I practiced fairly consistently, but didn't keep up a real practice. Yesterday I went to my first class since April and I am sore all over.

[HillSlugger]

Every year my goal is for 2500 miles. Missed last year due to some injuries, etc. With 2 weeks to go I need another 42 miles; should make it OK.

[hebe]

My cycling goal for 2012 is to ride at least 3 times a week whenever conditions permit. I'm not going to stress about long rides or short rides, I just want to keep riding.