Closing out 2007 - results?

[kelownagirl]

Get on the trainer girl!

[silver]

Wow! it is so awesome to read what everyone has accomplished! What a great year! you all inspire and encourage me sooooo much!

Hmmm.....I guess my greatest hope at the beginning of the year was to overcome the trauma of Sam's wreck and my own wreck and to try to get back to the fitness level that I was at before.

I'll try not to go on and on, but through everyone's encouragement, especially Mr.'s I feel that I have overcome that trauma. It will always be with me, but It will not hold me back, rather it will continue to spur me on!

I love being on my bike!! I love riding long miles! I love the feeling of exhaustion after riding a distance and difficulty that I did not think possible.

So, what did I accomplish:

6,464 miles (so far) outdoor miles (I don't count cycling class miles)
9 centuries, the longest at 139 miles.
2 triathlon age group wins
3 5k runs at or below 25 minutes.
certified to teach indoor cycling
began to trail run
began to do Pilates class.
completed the year without a major injury.

It's been a good year!

For next year, I don't want to chase the number of miles that I did this year. I'd rather chase speed. I want to ride faster and run faster. I want to improve on my triathlon times. I told Mr. that I wanted to ride more and he was offended. He feels that I ride too much. I had the opportunities this year to ride and he feels that I neglected things. So I want to be able to accomplish my goals without making him feel that he and other things are neglected.

[withm]

Get on the trainer girl!

Sunday forecast is 70% chance of rain for most of the day with temps in low 40s. Ugh. If I get a radar window, I'll go out and ride for an hour or so, but if the forecast is accurate that's not likely to happen.

Monday will be clear and sunny (and windy), (and colder), but I have a plan. I'll do a "tailwind ride" - run the final 42 miles south to Assateague Island, taking advantage of the North wind, and have my friend meet me there with the car. I can get the miles in, then load the bike into the car. If I'm not frozen by then we can walk around down there on the trails a bit, and drive home. And then I'll take a few days off the bike. Well that will be easy cause I'll be back at work again.

[RoadRaven]

All of you inspirations... all of you

From winning championships to reaching mileage goals to conquering hills to not crashing (I will diplomatically avoid mentioning barfing in cars ) to healing and getting active again

I reached my mileage goal yesterday while riding with my nearly-17 son - the 62k ride meant I passed my 4500km goal for the year.

Still got today's ride with my youngest son to do when the cooler evening arrives... and a ride with my partner tomorrow.

Other goals I achieved

- riding in and completing the Club Champs road race

- being placed third vet woman in the Club Champs time trial

- lifting my time trial average to 32kph

A good year

[HillSlugger]

My main riding goals for the year were 2500 miles and completing a metric century. Due to injury (and triathlon training) I will only make 1800 miles. Injury also kept me from even trying for the metric century. However, I went from basically being a non-swimmer to doing 113,000m this year, I ran 250 miles, and I completed 2 triathlons. All in all, it was a great year and I'm hoping to tick off these riding goals in 2008.

2008 goals:
175,000m swim
2500mi bike
350mi run

metric century
3 sprint triathlons
$2500 raised for American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure

[luv2ride94]

Including trainer miles my goal was 5000 and since it was one of the only things i could do for a while i beat it 6017!!!