Goal for the remainder of the year...

[mimitabby]

Oh Veronica,
are you in the altitude club on BJ? My husband is doing that too.

I have had to re-do my goal 2x already for the year. I have less than 300 miles to go to make 2000, but now i'm not sure i can make it.

(it's getting dark out there!)

[Veronica]

Oh Veronica,
are you in the altitude club on BJ? My husband is doing that too.

I have had to re-do my goal 2x already for the year. I have less than 300 miles to go to make 2000, but now i'm not sure i can make it.

(it's getting dark out there!)

Nope, not doing the climbing competition. I prefer to compete with myself.

300 miles is only 100 miles a month. Make it a priority to get in a good 25 miles each weekend and you should be able to do it. Of course you may want to do more some weekends to have extra in case of crummy weather.

V.

[mimitabby]

I hope I can. I had to work last sunday and will work THIS sunday too. and they want us to work longer days too. there are only so many hours in a day!!! eeek!

[mtkitchn]

I've revised my mileage goal three times this year. It was my first year of riding, so I thought 1200 would be a good number. Now I'm aiming for 2250. I don't have a method to measure climbing distance, but once I do, I'll aim for a big number too! Like 5.
I hope to do three more 100k rides this year. My big goal is to attempt the Triple Bypass in Colorado next July.

[SJCzar]

My goal was to do 5 full Centuries and 5 Metric Centuries (only counting organized charity rides for this total) and 3000 miles.

I met the century goals. I had to do full centuries three weekends in a row to get them all in. Next year I won't wait so long.

I'm still about 350 miles short of the 3000 miles. Now that there's not much daylight left after work, I'll have to get going on the weekends to meet that goal.

[SadieKate]

Chick, it's not the total miles that matter, it's the time and quality.

Oh Veronica,
are you in the altitude club on BJ? My husband is doing that too.

Nope, not doing the climbing competition. I prefer to compete with myself.

Hm, that competition doesn't necessarily have anything to do with competing against others. Many if not most simply signed up as a way to publicly state their goals -- just like this thread. Besides, beyond the availability of hills in everyone's home terrain there is the issue of the creativity in measuring altitude gain. If I used just the Internet mapping sites, I could easily increase my numbers by 30-50%. Nope, it's only for personal measurement, just like total mileage on BJ.