2012 Goals - Cycling and Fitness

[Cyclesome]

Love the Holstee Manifesto link Thanks for sharing

2012 Goals:
1. Lose 15 pounds
2. Spend more time with family and friends cycling
3. Cycle 1000 miles
4. Master the Slagel Hill climb
5. Complete a few metric centuries

[ivorygorgon]

Veronica: The double we will be training for is the LA Wheelmen Grand Tour.

[jobob]

This year,

• I want to get back to my "climbing weight". I'm almost there!
  
  
• I want to get back to where a metric century is not a big deal, and an imperial century or a double metric is not in the "you've got to be kidding!" category. Been there before, I can do it again.
  
  
• And in early August, I want to ride up the mountain in the background of this photo (which is Mt Shasta; the last climb of the Mt Shasta Century is up the Everitt Memorial Highway to the Old Ski Bowl).

[maillotpois]

Jo - that's a great pic!!!

I'm going to be working on the "to do list" I created after my DNF of the TT. I've got the new bike with better climbing gears. I'm planning to do the TT specific training rides SRCC puts on - one of which is even harder than the TT. Now that I'm back from my trip to the east coast, it is time to resume the weight loss I started last year.

On the way to the TT, I'll do some brevets and doubles. I'd like to repeat my time at DMD, which I was really happy with. And I will mostly try to have fun on the bike and keep fitting in family time along the way.

[Reesha]

It feels like I've been planning my 2012 goals since summer 2011!

My main goal is to successfully ride across the country-- Seattle to Washington D.C. over the summer, and to finish strong and in the best shape of my life.

The other goals kind of revolve around this:

• This winter and spring: drop into the 140 lb range and STAY THERE for the rest of the year.

• Compete in several bike races this spring-- I don't have a choice in the matter... I'm the coach!

• Be faster than my female student riders

• After the cross country bike ride-- maintain my physique!

• Continue to meet with my personal trainer Zach throughout the year.

It's ambitious, and some of these things aren't really a choice anymore. I'm locked into racing and riding across the country (or it feels like it anyway) and I'm already well on my way to dropping into the 140s. Zach and I started working together at the beginning of december and I've already lost an inch and a half off my waist. No pounds yet, but fat for certain!

Woohoo!

[limewave]

After a lot of thinking, I believe my goal for the year is to be consistent.

I have ideas about how fast I want to run, about where I want to be in the xc expert field, etc. But I noticed that when something unexpected, out of my control, came up and derailed my opportunity to reach certain goals this year--it affected me much more than I thought it would. I became depressed, turned to emotional eating, slacked on my training . . .

Here are a list of "sub-goals" to help motivate me, but as I mentioned, my main goal is eat healthy, take care of myself, and exercise regularly.

• Fully complete Strength Training Program
• PR in the 25k
• Compete in a 100 mile xc race
• Podium in Expert Cat (any race )

I'll also add:

• Go to bed when I need to go to bed
• Don't eat junk food past 8 PM--go to bed! I am tired, not hungry.
• Take a break when I need it, sometimes I really don't feel better after a workout.
• Stay the course when the course should be stayed
• Stop obsessing about NOT having a treat, move on. The obsessing is what makes it so difficult to say no.
• Continue to push myself to my limits and beyond

[ny biker]

I have no goals. Except to have fun.

[GLC1968]

Where to begin? The athletic performance ones:

• Better my times at the races I repeat this year.
• Go sub-2 hour on a half marathon (I have lots of opportunities)
• Execute an entire training plan all they way through to the event
• Reach my weight goal before June 1.
• Sub 1:45/100m for my swim.
• Complete both the Mt Shasta Summit Century and The Crater Lake Century

For other goals, I have

• get a better handle on the farm (this needs to be quantified, I know)
• create a family budget and revamp our financial plan
• learn to be more proactive and focused at my job
• socialize more