2010 Goals

[Medianox]

My goals for 2010:
1) Build up my endurance and stamina
2) Ride farther on a regular basis
3) Take myself out of town on my bike and find my way back
4) Improve overall technique (specifically climbing)and skills
5) Complete a century ride
6) Do the "Bay to Breakers" with a group from work
7) Lose 10 lbs (that one never changes-lol)
and most of all-
8) Be an aware, considerate and safe cyclist in 2010!!!!

[ny biker]

Finish my first marathon. And do it early enough in the year that I don't sacrifice too much of my peak-season cycling.

First, I have to sign up..... I'm just terrified of pushing that button....

You can do it!! Push that button!!

[Owlie]

1. Get over my fear of riding downhill. (So, go for a few rides in my neighborhood at home. It's sort of hill central, and every one has a stop sign at the bottom!)
2. Lose a bit of the "freshman fifteen" that appears to have parked itself on my person.
3. Increase my distance. I'd like to do a metric century...or even an imperial one this year. This goes along with...
4. Start riding more, even if it's just a few miles a day--work, weather and my health permitting.

[kimikaw]

My 2010 goals (which will also be the year I turn 50) -

1) Complete the 100lb weight loss (35 to go)
2) Do a 2:45 half marathon - goal is Nashville in April under 3:00 and Chicago in August under 2:45 (2009 Nashville my first half was 3:39 and Chicago my current best 3:09 - speedy or a runner I am not)
3) Complete my 1st and 2nd triathlons - the Pewaukee, WI triathlon in July and the Danskin Chicago/Kenosha WI tri in Sept.
4) Make it up the steep scary hill by my house on my bike.


And maybe do my first century ride.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

My 2010 goals (bicycle-wise) are:

-To stop recording how many miles I ride and fussing about what my average speed is.
-To focus more on just using my bike for fun rides, exercise, and errands.
-To have my biking be a natural part of my life instead of something separate and special that needs ritualized preparations, even for a small ride.

My goal is to turn my biking more back to what it was when I was a kid.

[OakLeaf]

You can do it!! Push that button!!

Done... ack... Cleveland, in 175 days.

I think I'll feel better about it once I've run 14 in training... more than half. Might just do that tomorrow...

[malkin]

Those 20 pounds are probably already loose
I think what you want to do is lose them.

Maybe she meant "turn 'em loose!"

[out_spokin']

• Complete my fall/winter commuting challenge (see thread @ Commuting)

• Enter, complete, and have fun at my first cyclocross race. There's an odd spring one on April 2nd that I think I'll try.

• Do an early season century - either May or first week of June.

• Either repeat the Copper Triangle, or up the ante and try the Triple Bypass (both tough Colorado mountain day events)

• Do my food shopping by bike, with trailer as needed, at least once/month.

This is fun....gotta keep thinking about it!

[nscrbug]

My personal goals for 2010 are -

• Do at least 3 100-mile rides
• Improve my climbing
• Possibly do another triathlon (did 2 in '08, but none in '09)
• Participate in a multi-day bike tour

[SLash]

Hard to think about 2010, I'm still working on my 2009 total mileage goal and the way it is looking I might be riding on New Year's Eve!

For 2010 I want to do at least 1 century and ride at least 2000 miles. DH and I also want to do a supported tour of some kind.

[crazycanuck]

To improve my dirt skills-i'm still crap at some log overs
To save enough $$$ to get a Yeti ASR
To complete the 100km Otway Odyssey (one of the hard but cool mtb events in Australia..) & Dwelli 100
Perhaps do another 12hr solo (will see how next weekend's 12hr goes solo..)

Have fun fun fun on the dirt


Besides cycling...

I'd like to do 3-4 OW swims in Jan-Feb

[owlice]

I'm working on goals for December/winter, never mind all of next year!

I have never ridden through the winter, and this year, I would like to. Biking this summer/fall has been very therapeutic, and I don't want to let go of it.

I won't call them goals, but do have a few things I'd like to do in 2010, if I can swing them:

1.) Ride the Northern Central Railroad Trail from mile 0 to the end, spend the night in York, and ride back. I think this would be nice to do on a mild winter weekend. Or in the spring. Or the summer. Or the fall. It's only 41 miles one way, so totally doable physically; just need the time, money, and opportunity!

2.) Ride the Great Allegheny Passage. Maybe (just maybe) combine this with another C&O ride, but since I have a kid in (a very expensive) college, the GAP would be enough if that's all I could afford.

3.) Get better at hills. The only direction I can go on this is up!

4.) At least a metric century. Came close this year, with a 57-mile ride.

5.) Improve my average speed.

6.) Pass somebody, ANYbody, when I ride! Anyone, anyone at all!! (Anyone over 8 and under 80, anyway.)

[fatbottomedgurl]

Add weight training/ bootcamp this winter.
Lose 10 lbs. Hahah.
Swim faster.
Get up to 6k run. Run faster.
Learn to surf. (Off topic)

Race in at least 2 sprint tris next season and possibly an olympic by the end of season.

I did my first tri in September and loved the experience. Hated the run but I finished. Triathlon bug bit me pretty hard. Is there a nasal inoculation for that?

[azfiddle]

Well, since I'm still barely out of the newbie category, it's easy to set goals and get there.

1. I think I might reach 2000 miles this year (I started riding seriously in late July), so it might be reasonable to set a goal of at least 3000 for next year.

2. I want to reach a stable weight and maintain it- I'm within 3 lbs of my original 2009 goal and 10 more pounds would be amazing. But then I have to keep it off.

3. My longest ride in one day so far has been 50 miles, so I would like to increase my range and complete 2 or 3 longer rides- and complete at least one century. I must admit I'm all fired up from watching El Tour de Tucson this morning (although I didn't participate).

Sharon

[gnat23]

I'm not done with this year yet! Gimme another month to generate my list!

-- gnat! (probably some speed increase, weightloss, and racing goals, but how do you put a SMART goal around "take more risks"?)