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@cha****ng - there was the metric century a month thread for 2017, might be worth another one.
I took part and actually joined the Strava group in my enthusiasm, but only managed two or three 100km rides.
Still, I did do plenty of big days (50km or so) in the hills on long travel enduro bikes, so I'm not feeling down about it. On the contrary it's good to get the MTB love back.
2018 Cycling goal for me is to ride a lot more. Had some big change this year with my job which has made massive changes to my lifestyle so I have no excuses now for not riding more.
I see them as something to encourage you to get out. I "signed up for" the Bivy-a-month challenge in a similar vein. If you use Veloviewer then the Explorer square count makes a good challenge as it gets you to new places. The challenge is to try to get as big an X-by-X square of map tiles as you can. The squares are Open Source Mapping tiles at zoom level 10 (I think) and are slightly larger than OS 1Km squares. You have to get quite "inventive" to get some of them 😉
1) Improve on 11.5 hrs for the Gravel Dash 100 - dependent on second sprogs imminent arrival 3 days beforehand! 😕
2) Complete 2600 miles in the year so 50 miles per week of commuting and MTB
3) Make some bike packing kit for the fat bike so I can get out in 2019
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1) Metric century on the MTB
I'd be up for doing this with you Andy, if we could find a flattish but interesting route
Hoping the Segment will turn out just the job. Can't promise the Flat bit though!
1. Get to work early more. Leave work on time more. Go to bed early more, get up earlier.
2. Spend more time riding bikes and less time writing about them
3. Do some more events that put me out of my comfort zone. Probably longer ones
4. Ride some form of coast to coast
5. Visit big mountains more
6. Master navigating with map and compass
7. Get rid of bikes, clothes and components that I've not used in the last year.
8. More road trips!
9. Lose some weight
10. Interview some of my heroes
Get rid of lurgy I've had for the past year. I'd be happy with that.
South Downs Double
Fred Whitton
300km Audax
I have more free time next year than any of the last 20!
Hmmmmmm.
Lots of things.
Torino - Nice in September. I have a rather lovely DeAnima custom steel gravel bike coming on long term test for that one. 😀
Haute Route - I've put it off too many times so time to do it I reckon.
Visit Italy again to do some gravel rides.
Road riding in Mallorca.
Do lots more Munros by bike. I have a tick list to complete.
Do an off road version of the Fred Whitton in a day.
Ride the off road Coast to Coast in Englandshire as a pub to pub jaunt.
Ride in Sweden again.
Go beach riding with my daughter on her fat bike.
Do a few overnight bikepacking trips.
All good!
.Get my average number of rides per week back up to 2 or more now that my infant daughter is sleeping better, she'll be 2 in May.
.Get up the Peak District more and also to ride Cutgate & back from Ladybower. Explore more of the White Peak.
.Lakes trip in Sept as per..
For whatever reason I've just not been riding as much as usual, so I want to get into the holidays/new year and turn that around. Honestly other'n that I'm happy with the things and the way I ride so I'm not out to set new challenges or benchmarks or whatever. I want to ride some new places, I want to ride most of the old places.
Oh and who knows maybe I'll finally do the WHW after saying I will every year for pretty much a decade.
And I'd like to sell more of the stuff I'm not using!
Interview some of my heroes
I’m free on 10th Jan?
Hoping the Segment will turn out just the job. Can't promise the Flat bit though!
No hike-a-bikes at least.
Turn commutes into training rides, get back down to racing fettle, do an MTB marathon event, a cross race (started manflu the day before Ulverston cx event, which was especially gutting as I'd built a bike for it) and maybe another stab at enduro. Get up some mountains, Helvellyn in particular. A days riding in the Alps if I can get the family holiday there.
Ride more!
Improve my jumping ( ie jump with out clenching my buttocks and holding my breath ok not really but you get the idea!)
I’d love a BPW trip!
Go to GNAR Bike park!
Survive Ard rock
Keep saving for my new bike!
My main goal is to ride my bike.
It’s been a shit year. Hopefully 2018 will be better, I’m already looking forward to the summer alps trip.
Adapt back to UK conditions after 6 years out
This post made me think a bit. Seems like only a while ago your posts were about moving to oz, then they were about being in oz then they were about personal changes now you seem to be coming back.
Made me realise how much fitter I was six years ago, and how that really doesn’t seem a long time ago!
Just to actually get out and ride. Other than commuting I can count the rides I’ve had this year on one hand. A sad state of affairs that needs rectifying. Hopefully get out regularly, improve fitness and start to save for a mountain bike. My dream would be a nice short travel full sus. A Cotic Flare or something similar.
Get fit enough to not make a fool of myself at Ard Rock.
Ummmm there's a question. I don't really know. This year I did a week in Andalusia, sdw, xc races, road crit racing, so I honestly can't think what else to put on the list. I can't see me passing this year's miles, well, Kms, I'm going to top 8000 this year.
My riding is hampered a bit by my lad playing football at weekends.
My target is more a weight thing this year. Plan is to get to sub 90kg.
Ride more and when I do leave the gps at home so no strava timing.
Get faster going up.
2017/18 CX Nationals in January - top 50% of vet field.
Tour of Cambridge - not crash, and qualify for the World's in Varese.
Varese UCI Gran Fondo (as above) as part of a riding holiday in the area.
Go sub 23min at my club weekly 10mile TT (Weston on the Green airfield circuit).
6000 miles a year (will hit that today for 2017).
Podium placing at a Central CX League round.
(still considering) Masters CX Worlds in Mol, Belgium (the course is nearly 50% running and I don't run, so I either commit and learn or wait 'til the Worlds gets moved to a different course!).
Ride the MTB more.
1. Less emphasis on Strava, more on laughter
2. Ride Rotorua (booked)
3. Maybe revisit Bali
I’ve entered the Tour du Mont Blanc so will be doing a lot of road riding leading up to that.
I might do the Manx100, but it is the week after the TdMB, so I’m not sure.
Then probably Manx End2End.
Stop looking at bikes on the internet and ride the one(s) I have.
I'd like to explore more of the lake district and generally get more confident with technical descents/drops. I also fancy trying the hebridean way at some point soon.
* Maintain energy level balance between cycling (daily commutes) and 1 year old son and other forms of exercise.
* Get out of local area more often to ride actual trails rather than just farm tracks.
* Bunny hop > 50cm on hardtail.
* Continue finding obstacles in local urban environment to practice techie-ish skills.
* Try and learn a few other tricks/skills like fakie, trackstand, manual, etc
Ride more (10k km?).
Ride a 200k audax
Coast to coast to coast in Devon.
Top 10 in CX at Escot instead of being full of cold.
100 mile MTB around Dartmoor
Plan racing better.
Do some audax.
Race more cross.
1, 5-day road ride across the alps
2, Ride around Luxembourg in 1 or 2 days
3, Tick off 8000km riding (not a lot for some people, a lot for me)
4, Get the MTB riding going again now there's a bike park by my office
5, Go down to Lac Blanc with the MTB at least once
6, Do my first 200km (been close to it before) and first 200 mile in one day
Ride bike, enjoy it, rides some more.
After buying my first house and having my first child over the summer my riding all but finished in July this year. From tomorrow i have a few realistic goals;
Ride 1000 miles in the year
Ride the Welsh Velothon
Ride in Morzine again
Enter another round of Enduro
It'll be interesting to come back to this is 12 months and see how far I got.
Ditch the stabalisers and pull a wheelie.
2017 was first full year living in the Quantocks, and never left them (not that that's such a bad thing), so...
1. Ride more in Exmoor
2. Ride a loop in Dartmoor
and
3. a 50 miler on the mtb
4. Nail that poxy 'steep turns' trail on the Qs that I kept fudging up.
5. Help the eldest boy to learn to ride his bike.
6. Day in the Brecons.
7. Make more of the generous flexi policy at work and book off a day a month for a big ride.
Get discharged by orthopaedic consultant hopefully mid-Jan, continue working with physio to be back on the bike by Spring, leave work on 6 Apr 2018 for good and ride my bike a lot 🙂
3000 miles
Learn to wheelie
Race again
1. Enjoy riding in 2018
2. Ride 5000km, this years goal was 4000km got to 4300km not bad for a weekend warrior.
3. Cut down on sweets!
4. Do a 100km ride
5. Get a FS bike.
Ride as much as 2017. 4500 miles. Most I’ve ever ridden and at 50 y.o. Keep the fitness I’ve got and improve. Enjoy the Dyfi Enduro, Singletrack 7, whatever Pat replaces Mayhem with then focus on the Wembo Solo World Champs at Fort William in October.
Not injure myself in a way that stops me riding in 2018.
Survive the long BHF Peak ride in March and (more scarily) make it round the Hamsterley Super Beast in May.
Finally finish the bamboo road bike and use it to cycle commute (an hour each way) one day a week.
Have fun.
2017 was a cracker with ride birmingham 100 miler being a highlight. Did basque mtb coastal holiday which was mega and the lincoln sportive which had a great sprint up the cobbles finish. Also did penmachno and landegla and the ard rock enduro as well as not buying any new bikes with the ethos of just enjoy the fleet as is. So 2018 has a lot to live up to.
Loose plan though : go to whistler for some mtb Do a cx race. Have a week Road riding in spanish mountains. Join a road club. Commute more by mountain bike. Buy no cycle clothing. Went a bit mad in 2017 with rapha gear! Sell the dh bike and Poss upgrade the yeti for a sb6 funds permiting.
Entering my first enduro - I will be rubbish but looking forward to it, that’s what it’s about. Going to do a 100 miler for only the second time, and try to get to a few new places.
Going to do a lot more riding abroad this year, especially in Europe, as I'm not getting any younger (and it may not be as easy or cheap in the future).
- got a week in Mallorca in Feb
- riding Strade Bianche in March
- want to explore more trails around Downieville and Graeagle in May/June if I can wangle a work trip to SF (
- find a summer 24hr race that four of us are free to do (this will be the toughest challenge of the year)
- possibly ride the length of France (from Nice to Calais) in September
- ride the Giro della Donna in Australia in November for the third time
- and aim for about 4000 miles riding in total
Do a few sportives - starting with the Mad March Hare.
Get a couple of 100 mile road rides in...a while off that yet!
Get and maintain a decent level of fitness - it’s just not as fun if it’s an effort all the time.
Take bike to Scotland for 1-2 weeks.
Couple of uplift days including a return to BPW.
Stop spending money on it and changing bits that don’t really need changing (I think I’m done now though).
That’s it!
Perhaps wear some of my new(-ish) bike stuff out with use (everything is way too shiny).
Spend less money on gear and use what I have.
Get at least one loop of the HT550 knocked off, preferably all of it (but not necessarily in one go... 😳 ).
Do the Great Glen and Affric/Kintail Ways.
The Cairngorms Loop.
A northern isles trip.
Get the posties path/rheniningdale hostel done.
Lose weight, get some semblance of fitness back, not hold up the BAMers.... you know, the usual...