What is your goal for 2006?

[amandaesq04]

for my second season on the bike:

complete 2 centuries (I did one last year)
complete the MS 150 (only finished 107 miles last yr- knees )
double my miles (last year 1100 or so)
increase speed
get back to the gym on a regular basis & stop eating junk food

[maillotpois]

4) Took a fun ride with mr. fish and fishlets last night, in fact. Need to do more of this
other goals are going well, too.

Maybe I need to set some new goals:

6) ride 200 miles per month
7) start training for triathalon
8) start training for TNT century

There - that ought to do it.

The ride with the fishlets is the best! I did a 15 mile ride with the PetitePois on her relatively new road bike and in some ways its more challenging than riding a century on my own bike! I want her to love it and have it be fun. I want her not to crash. I want her to make it up the hills. She and I are starting to get towards the pre-adolescent mother-daughter times of turmoil. I'm either the best person in the world or the worst. I'm hoping cycling can be fun through all that.

I'm so psyched you're doing the TNT century!

[DrBee]

The ride with the fishlets is the best! I did a 15 mile ride with the PetitePois on her relatively new road bike and in some ways its more challenging than riding a century on my own bike! I want her to love it and have it be fun. I want her not to crash. I want her to make it up the hills. She and I are starting to get towards the pre-adolescent mother-daughter times of turmoil. I'm either the best person in the world or the worst. I'm hoping cycling can be fun through all that.

I'm so psyched you're doing the TNT century!

If you can keep the pre-adolescent mother-daughter times from major turmoil, the teen years should be liveable, right? I think that having cycling in common is a wonderful way to keep a positive connection between the two of you. If/when she gets crabby - go for a ride together - with hills. It'll help her get the frustrations out and give you two time to talk (on the flats). That would have served me well when I was that age (so long ago).

I can't wait for the 2007 TNT century AND the chance for us to meet! Very awesome!

[salsabike]

This year's goals:

Put in another @3000 mile overall.

Do the Seattle to Portland ride (with spouse on tandem) in one day this year instead of last year's two days.

[E2theD]

Centuries that is. I'll be half way there by the end of this month. I'm including some full and metric in the mix.

Cinderella - Epic & done!
Sonoma 100m - This Saturday!
MS 150 - Just 2 weeks away
Tour De Tahoe - Really looking forward to this ride
Breast Cancer Ride - I'm planning on the 100m w/ 7,500ft of climbing

Still need to decide on the last one but that should be easy. Heck, I may do more than 6 with some unsupported ones along the coast...

Plus I'm trying to improve my mtb skills this year. That really got under my skin.

Erin

[Geonz]

My bike > car goal is working so far... bike 1700, car 615. May be driving 700 miels to the Horsey Hundred in May, but I'll still have the lead ;-)

[Brandi]

My goal is to just have more fun on my bike. Get more biking in and do well on our big bike trip in Sept. And not to run over any snakes this year! The little buggers always race out in front of my tires.

[yellow]

I never posted any goals as I didn't really have any. Well, I guess I did, but they didn't really have much to do with cycling.

My goals are always pretty simple. 'Course, I have a naive world view that I refuse to let go of (most of the time...at other times I can be sickeningly cynical).

• Ride/exercise regularly.
• Stay out of debt.
• Spend as much time as possible with DH and good friends.
• Walk my dog lots.

Oh, and I guess I do have one "goal" that applies to this year only: catch some fish.

[SadieKate]

Oh, and I guess I do have one "goal" that applies to this year only: catch some fish.

Me, too!

Looking at our rivers the shad fishing is going to be a bit tough. Hard to wade, especially if I've been doing it all wrong and am supposed to be taking hours and hours to land one shad.

[yellow]

Looking at our rivers the shad fishing is going to be a bit tough. Hard to wade, especially if I've been doing it all wrong and am supposed to be taking hours and hours to land one shad.

Bwahahahahahaha! Good thing we don't have shad in Utah.
(Private joke, unless you've read the book Founding Fish by John McPhee.)

If I recall correctly, you went on one more fishing trip than I did in '05. Did I not confess that nary a fly was cast from my 3 weight last year? I told DH that I want to go a-casting at the park this weekend, in the event I have forgotten the technique.