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Haven't done this already have we?
I'm planning to do a continue with the fitness drive, do a couple of races after a break of more than a year and try to get my wheels off the ground a bit more - having got out of the habit following injury.
And you?
Similar. Training for the puffer, expecting first kid in June so want to continue staying fit to see me through the leaner times (riding, not waist)
Yup I'm definitely planning on riding this year.
chakaping - Member
Haven't done this already have we?
I'm planning to do a continue with the fitness drive, do a couple of races after a break of more than a year and try to get my wheels off the ground a bit more - having got out of the habit following injury.
And you?
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fancy a local trail ride 2morra if the weather is Ok pal? 
See if I can ride more than the 10 times I did in 2014, that said I need to see I actually enjoy it anymore as well kind a fallen a bit out of sorts with riding which is probably why so few rides!!
Weather forecast is Ok if a bit windy out early doors for me hopefully
See you out there........one day 😉
ridden the bike (tick)
made sure to have a coffee so can't have give up coffee as a resolution (tick)
ditto beer/alcohol (tick)
sorted.
Out on the bike at least once a week, and 4 laps at 10UTB (alternating with the Mrs in a pair, 3 laps each last year).
Sell the bikes, get pissed more & generally enjoy myself. Oh, & leave work so I can go fishing more as well. (in my canadian canoe that I haven't yet tried out)
this year is going to be a touring year. i seem to have lost my love of mountainbiking, and gone back to where i 1st started offroad riding, with the ctc.
going to mid wales next weekend to ride the bearbones winter event, but i will be sticking to lanes and forest tracks.
week after me and the wife are having a weekends mini tour to helmsley yha, and my plans for the new year are to ride in a new area, and stay at a yha i have never been to, each month of the year.
looking forward to new area's and exploring........ 8)
To go vegan but then some friends arrived with pizza, tomorrow then.
I should also have said I intend to ride with the local peeps on here that I have not been able to yet.
I'm working tomorrow am, will message you Tony.
week after me and the wife are having a weekends mini tour to helmsley yha,
Park at no.3 Tony. 😉
I've convinced myself I need to ride more trail centre type places to help me get in the air more often and to learn what to do whilst I'm up there.
Can't help but feel I'm missing out riding natural stuff all the time, but with kids/work etc it's finding the time to travel.
I am going to try and sling my leg over the bike every day this year, even if that's just down to the shop.
I need to ride my bike more than 4 times this year, I'll have then beat this year. Bloody back. Hopefully surgery within the next couple of months, then at least I might get a summer riding.
Not ridden since November due illness and not allowed back on till Feb, but hoping to get some decent touring in on the new CDF which hopefully arrives nest week !
chakaping - Member
I'm working tomorrow am, will message you Tony.
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Ok pal, I was gonna go out mid morning for a 20/25 but I could hang fire till lunch time if your keen???
Get back to a-bivvy-a-month
WHW in a day
Scottish C2C2C in a day
Cairngorm Loop as an ITT
Etape Loch Ness (and maybe a couple more sportives)
Some "foreign" bikepacking
Explore some old tracks that aren't on the current MTB bucketlist
Do some road touring - especially aiming to complete some more of my Scottish coastal odyssey
And some of the islands I've not yet visited.
Try not to have any bikes stolen.
Do some bikepacking.
Ride more natural trails.
Ride more new trails.
100 miles in a day and I fancy a pop at a 200km Audax.
I'm entered into Velothon Wales hoping to go around 4h30 ish.
Not to post on here again after tomorrow.
Improve fitness, try to lose my irrational fear of big gaps & go for a top 10 finish in my age category of the EWS's I enter.
Oh, and ride my MTB more this year.
Learn to wheelie.
And when I've got wheelie good at that........learn to manual
Go out tomorrow.
Do some trail maintenance/building
As much riding as possible, in as many new places as possible but mainly just keep enjoying it as much as I already do.
Once this chest infection has cleared,out at least once a week,backed up with swimming and squash during the week.
Aim to do the Wild Boar chase in may.
Most of my mileage - over 3000 miles - has been commuting the last few years, so I'm aiming for quality over quantity.
Want to get one 100 plus mile road ride each month, want to get my first 300k audax done, and I want to get 50 miles a month done on the mountain bike.
But first I want to get my back fixed by tbe osteopath on Monday at 5.30 🙄
Go riding in Scotland for the first time in about 15 years.
MTB holiday somewhere warm.
The discussions have already begun 🙂
4 for me so far:
5000 miles in 2015, 2014 was 3000 ish but I have now sold my car so will gain some there.
Home to the station in under 40 minutes. It's a reasonably hilly 13.5 miles, current PB is 45 mins.
Work to home in under 1hr50m. 38 miles, current PB is 1hr59m.
Ride my MTB more. As the above show I have ridden my road bike laods more than the MTB over the last few years, I intend to try and get off road at least once a month, more in the summer.
Learn to manual and hopefully do the river gap jump at Chatel
Removing braking almost entirely from my descents. I've been training this winter riding the brakeless BMX everywhere. The test the other night confirmed that I have indeed forgotten about brakes.
I'll be fine. . .
Do something energetic very day in january, either bike, sailing, running or the gym. Also aiming for 5000miles in the year between various sports too but sailing clashes with the sunday club runs so wont be too dissapointed as Im losing that wasy 80-100 miles every week and commuting will only account for about 3000 even if i never miss a day so it'll have to be a lot of long rides on my oen this summer!
I'd like to ride less trail centres & more of other people's local trails & show people around mine in a trail swap kind of thing
Just about to go out and map the start of a new long distance trail. I have been thinking about this for a few years,so I hope there are some nice landowner/farmers that won't mind me publishing it when it's complete.
Start training for a WHW double that some of us are planning to do this year.
Stalk DezB when he gets North of the border 🙂
I'd like to ride...more of other people's local trails & show people around mine in a trail swap kind of thing
Now that sounds like the beginning of a very worth while scheme.
The usual, get fitter, ride more, get my mojo back, sell of all the kit I don't need and not buy any new bikes.
[i]Stalk DezB when he gets North of the border[/i]
You will hear of our plans 🙂
not buy any new bikes.
Easy for you to say that now!
But drop me an email if you feel yourself weakening, I'll be your mentor.
Rocketdog's idea sounds ace.
1. Enter an MTB race (Mud, Sweat and Gears Eastern Region thing probably).
2. Weekend riding in the Lakes (never ridden there before).
3. A ride in Dartmoor (brother just moved to Exeter, perfect opportunity).
4. Ride more with the wife. Didn't realise how much I took that for granted before the little man arrived.
Open to offers & ideas
Aiming for at least 3000 miles on the road bike this year, doesn't sound a lot but I don't do long rides so it's lots of short one
Ride the mtb more as well/waste less weekends hungover and go riding instead.
Ride twice as much as 2014, just my local loops in Hertfordshire.
Ride Chicksands and Woburn 6 times.
Go on more group rides.
Rediscovery the love and buzz of Mtbing, which might require a new bike.
Week abroad on the bike, currently looking at Ride Ibiza.
Actually ride the bikes I have got instead of fiddling with them in the garage.
Persuade eldest son that now he is 35 I no longer have to buy his bikes
Have at least one weekend away every month ( wife and money permitting).
Resist buying loads of crap online because " it will make my riding experience better".
Wheeling the bike from the shed would be an improvement on my total riding miles of last year!