goals- the finishing year and the new year

[Chile Pepper]

For 2010 my goal was to ride 3,000 km. I was on track to do that or more until I fell on Easter and then spent four months on the DL. My ride tomorrow should put me at 2,175.

So this year, no goals. I do not want to tempt fate again by aiming for anything. At all. Except, maybe, to be injury free for as much of the year as possible. See? Even there, I'm giving fate an out.

[nscrbug]

I had a goal of riding 7,000 miles for this year, but fell just 41 miles short of it. I may have one more shot at it, on New Year's Eve...as the forecast is calling for near 50-degree temps, but flooding rains to go with it. If there is a dry window of opportunity, I'll try my best to hit my goal.

As for next year...well, I guess I'll shoot for 7,000 again, if I don't hit it this year. And if I do hit it on Dec. 31st, then my goal for next year will be 7,001.

[Catrin]

I had a goal of 2500 miles in 2010 as my first year of cycling, but injuries stopped me cold at about 1,700 miles. Considering that I only made it out of training parking lots in March, and didn't start riding actual roads until May, I think that I still did pretty darn good! I had to back way down in mid-September so there is no double in my mind that I would have met that goal if I hadn't injured myself.

For 2011 I want to set my goal at 3,000 miles, and if my body will let me ride further than that then I will just let it happen I have already selected some events that I would like to participate in, body and finances permitting, and am looking forward to taking advantage of my new home's location and riding every opportunity that I can and just having fun with it

[maillotpois]

Congrats on those of you who set and made (or came really close to) goals for this year.

I had no goals for 2010 and I didn't even keep track of my mileage, which I have done religiously since 2005. I generally hit between 4000 - 5000 miles a year and have no reason to believe I wasn't right in there somewhere. I did some really good rides, including my longest ride in about 3 years, and had a lot of fun on my bike.

I have some ride specific goals for 2011 (I'm going to do a brevet series and some double centuries), but I probably won't track mileage overall. I'm really trying to focus on quality of rides, not so much quantity. And having fun.

[chicagogal]

2010 was my 1st season racing, so I didn't really have "goals" per se except to have fun and gain experience. I accomplished both, and even had some good results along the way! So now I have some real goals for 2011, mostly centered around races I really enjoyed last season that I am targeting for next season. As such, I don't have mileage goals. I just plan to train smart so that I show up prepared for my "A" races.

[Rebecca19804]

Perfect timing for this thread! As it happens, I sat down last night to complete my data for the year on MyCyclingLog

I didn't have any goals for 2010. Last winter was my first winter cycling. I seemed to spend most of my energy experimenting with winter gear and clothing, while trying not blow the budget on bike stuff every month! My only bike at that point was a Brompton, which was ideal for commuting to my office, but then I was sent on secondment to a client's office which was much further away. Then snow & ice & multiple punctures hit! So I didn't cycle much til my secondment ended in May. Boy, I was so happy to be able to cycle every day again that I did! I lost nearly 15 lbs in May without even trying!

I bought my first full size bike (my vintage mixte) in May and got it on the road at the end of June. Commuted all summer on it - it was true love! (Still is, but I daren't expose all those original components to winter roads, so she's tucked up hibernating right now.) We did our first century in July.

I had all sorts of problems with malfunctioning computers this year, on both the Brompton and the mixte. I know I commuted all through August but have no records of it?! Then the knee surgery at the end of October took me off the bike til just last week.

The only metric I've been interested in noting is mileage. As the year progressed, I formulated an unofficial goal of not letting my weekly mileage drop off from what seemed to be a reasonable benchmark. I didn't always achieve this but sometimes it did make the difference between getting on the bike on a grey morning instead of catching the bus.

The result? For the 9 months for which I have (incomplete) data, my mileage totalled 1,147 miles in 2010.

Looking to 2011? Given my audax plans for the coming year (and beyond... the London-Edinburgh-London in 2013!!), I'm going to aim for 3,000 miles.

It's good to have goals, right?

P.S. There's a woman in my group on MyCyclingLog who is also hoping to do the LEL in 2013... her mileage this year was 20,000!

[NbyNW]

My goal is to move back to Seattle so I can ride outside for more than 4 months of the year.

ETA: I did manage to do a charity ride that I had been hoping to do, which involved two metric centuries over a weekend for the Ride to Conquer Cancer!