2013 Riding Goals

[uforgot]

I just need to start riding again. I have neglected it for so long!

[DocZan89]

My first goal...to get around my "block". My block is 4 miles around which is not much but it has some pretty decent hills. Like you smittykitty, I need lots of work on hills. They are my nemesis and the thing that psychs me out of riding close to home.

Rosanna

[TrekDianna]

kacie tri-ing - you are amazing.

[marni]

I turn 65 in May. I have been saving for a new "special " bike since I was 60. I am buying it for my birthday present to myself. That will happen sometime after June 1, as I have challenged my three biking sisters to ride a century with me in the Little Red Riding Hood Ride in Utah. My other goal is to continue to ride my age each week, only this time to make it more than 2/3 of the time. On my new bike it should be easier right?

[Atlas]

I mentioned that I want to ride a century before the summer is over and my boyfriend will hold me to that (which is what I need). We just moved to a new city so I hope to get more comfortable with traffic and get out of town more on my bike. I'd also like to try mountain biking since we now live in the mountains instead of the flat plains.

[indysteel]

I turn 65 in May. I have been saving for a new "special " bike since I was 60. I am buying it for my birthday present to myself. That will happen sometime after June 1, as I have challenged my three biking sisters to ride a century with me in the Little Red Riding Hood Ride in Utah. My other goal is to continue to ride my age each week, only this time to make it more than 2/3 of the time. On my new bike it should be easier right?

Sounds like a great plan, marni! What bike do you have in mind?

[GLC1968]

My goal is to ride regularly again. I think that in 2012, if I am remembering correctly, I rode a total of 75 miles. Ouch.

2013 is a rebuilding year for me. I've developed a bunch of imbalances from being on crutches and limping for the first half of the year and it's time to work them out. I'm starting with Pilates and easy rides and bike commuting. We'll go from there.

We just signed up for the Crater Lake Century in August and have plans to ride the Tour du Blast in September...so there is plenty of motivation!

[Catrin]

Marni - I think that is a great goal! Please keep us posted!

GLC, I wish we were closer so we could ride together I am excited about (hopefully) being able to ride tomorrow - for the second time since Christmas!!!! I've the Booty ride at the end of June (if I can raise enough) and I am determined to FINALLY complete the Hope ride in September without injury!

[shootingstar]

Well, I did meet part of my 2013 goals..to ride several times per wk. during the winter. Short rides, some super cold rides in Alberta, but all good and ..now I'm reminded how helpful it is for today's longer ride..in Vancouver for 42 kms. up several hills and in such fine weather with cherry blossoms. And I didn't die. I haven't done a ride this distance since last November.

As for rest of this year, ah heck. For me, just ride longer every day when I can and wherever I go/visit. At least 1-2 touring trips 2-3 days long. I haven't figured out the total target annual mileage. I just want to keep on enjoying cycling as much as I can. Not sure, I guess last year I did probably under 3,000 km. So if I do that this year, great or more, that'll be great. But I'm not keeping accurate count and haven't been for past decade. I just know the trips where we've done 80-100 km. in 1 day vs. other trips 15-45 km. around town during the day.

[Bike Writer]

I set these up in late winter while dreaming about spring time and a new riding season.

• Ride 5 new trails or paths
• Do at least 2 urban rides in a city
• Take my bike on at least one vacation
• Rent a bike on one vacation in a style different than what I normally ride
• Take on one bicycle advocacy initiative
• Go on a bike ride with one kid under 10 yrs old who is not a relative
• Test ride some different bikes than what I normally ride
• Ride a tandem
• Do at least one charity ride
• Do at least 2 group rides
• Train to ride a trip of 40 miles
• Ride 1,000 miles
• Increase my riding average speed to 10 mph
• Ride a real mountain bike trail

I ride slow and want to increase my mph so that I can cover more miles on an outing. My goal for annual mileage for the year is considerably lower than my best year but after all the interruptions from last year I'll be very glad to make 1K this year.

[Owlie]

Oh yes, here's one.
I want to do a century, self-supported. I want to ride the entire length of the Little Miami trail and back. I promised myself I'd do this before I left Ohio and this summer's my last chance.

And another two:
Explore some more of the bike trails around Xenia.
Ride to school at least once. Possibly ride to work. That one's going to be harder.

[NbyNW]

If there's one thing I've regretted about the last few years, it's that I wish I had ridden more.

So my goal is to just start riding again. I will be happy with 5-10 miles RT.

But first I have to go shopping! And I need to handle this delicately with DH because I just plunked down a bunch of money on a DSLR.

My bikes are all in storage back in the US .... we didn't have space in our air freight allowance to bring any over.

I wanna test ride some bikes this month. Might be a challenge with a baby in tow. Or maybe shops will hook up a trailer so baby can come along for a ride, and I can see what it's like to have a trailer! Or a child seat. I'm really not sure what to get, but that's probably a whole 'nother thread.

[Skippyak]

I want to do a ride that is more than a century, maybe something like a 150. I want to do more, longer flats as climbing is just always part of any ride in the Wasatch. I like to climb but I hate hate hate descending and I don't really know how to do anything about that. I still do it but I take it slow and stop on long descents whenever I can to recuperate LOL. I look at people riding up my local climb with total envy as I am weenying my way down. I do sing, I do try to breathe. It is dumb as I want to improve my avg speed and this is where I can make it better LOL. My garmin is just rolling it's eyes at me.

[azfiddle]

Last year my goal was to ride 5000 miles. I upped the goal to 6000 when I was getting in extra miles, and didn't quite make it, but was at about 5700. That's an "A" in my book- over 90%.

This year I'm doing a little more music, and the weather hasn't been as nice and my DH has been injured and not riding, so I'm not quite as focused on a mileage goal. Not sure what my cycling goals are, but I'm riding with a women's "team"- and we are trying to improve our road skills. It's not a race team, and still having some growing pains and a bit of an identity crisis, but working/riding with them is part of my goal this year as well.

[lovelygamer]

I have gotten into road cycling this year. We are planning to train for a century in October. We have a long way to go! I am also working on speeds. Starting next week, I am commuting to the farm to pick up our CSA. I think those are my goals for the year.