Happy New Year! 2011 year goals?

[azfiddle]

My goals are very similar to Catrin's- avoid overuse injuries, and ride 3000+ miles I am close to my goal weight, so I want to lose the 2-3 lbs that crept back on while I was less able to exercise, and then maintain my weight.

I also need to increase the amount of weight-bearing exercise I do.

[FunSize]

My cycling goals: assault on the carolinas' 100k in april (eek! That's really soon!) And the assault on Mt. Marion in may.

Persoanl goals: save up money and apply to grad school.

[deskrider]

Since I started riding in September I have no idea what appropriate goals would be for 2011 but my initial thought is that I won't be happy with less than 3000 miles and that would include single bike and tandem. I want at least two longer trips out of state or out of the country in 2011 on the tandem with an average total number of rides per week at 4.5. I want to be able to ride a minimum of 35 miles on my single bike and a minimum of 75 on the tandem.

I guess I'll see whether these are attainable for someone who has just started so recently, and it will take cooperation of the tandem captain as well or some of this won't be attainable.

[jelee1311]

My goal is to stay well and injury free the whole year. I plan to ride 4 to 5 days a week and lose more weight. I want to be faster and stronger and go up big hills without stopping. Who knows maybe a sprint tri in August,or CCX in the fall.....well for now that's enough. Trekgranny you can do STP no problem just keep training!

[marni]

I want to increase my weight lifiting weight and my reps in resistance training by 10% every three months and to increase my road mileage by 25%. The second goal should be the easiest since my road biking this year was constantly interfered with by injury, life stresses, adjusting to being a care giver and terrible windy weather. I can hope for no injury and can learn to conquor the wind, the other two should be a bit smoother as well. Here's hoping. Plus I want to get the five pounds I put on over the holidays plus another 10 pounds off to reach my goal and keep it there.

Jelee- I love your tag line, I often feel the same way.

Good luck to us all.

[ivorygorgon]

A couple months ago there was a 2011 goal thread and I posted the following goals:

-I am going to increase my average speed, on flats and hills;
-I am going to get a professional fitting and increase my comfort on the bike; (Done, not sure I am quite "there" yet with comfort, but it is better.)
-I am going to ride the Adventure Corps Laguna Challenge, but do two laps instead of 1;(I could only do 1 lap last year, 44 miles, 4400 feet of climbing, lap two involves another 25ish miles and another 3300 feet of climbing, there is a third lap, which I want to do, but not sure of, which is another 22ish miles and another 3300 feet of climbing.)
-I am going to ride at least 50 miles a week.
DH and I will be in good enough shape to just do a century without feeling like we want to train for it. (almost there already)
-I will get down to my goal weight.

I still have all of these as my goals, so I guess when I wrote this I was on the money