WHW in a day
Caingorms Loop as an ITT
Many bivvies, with a few summit bivvies for good measure
Not knacker my Achilles again
Not participate in any form of formal education lasting more than 1 week
Hoping to complete a 12hr solo mtb race.
Only real aim is to do The Wild Boar Chase better than this year, so proper training.
Colnago Grand Fondo in Italy
Dragon Ride Grand Fondo
LEL
Good few long rides on the way to LEL
5000 miles for the year
scotroutes - MemberNobeerinthefridge » and some time with Captain Mainwaring around the Cairngorms
See you then?
Absolutely, look forward to it Colin.
Forgot - monthly uplift at Inners through the winter months too, managed Oct and Nov so far, Looks like december has evaded me, so 2 in january if the snow/ice stays reasonable...
Bought an Etrex, so more exploring in The Lakes. Currently self-employed so bimbling currently as I can't have any time off work (as I don't get paid), however I fancy another session with Jedi later in the year as the last one was mint. Mainly fitness goals for me as I have let it slip drmatically.
So:
Want a 150kg squat and 200kg deadlift back, then the rest are cycling aims,
Clear the Loughrigg Terrace Climb without walking any of it (apart from getting off for the gates).
Sub 30 minutes up Cragg Vale on the CX (I'm fat, so these times won't seem quick to lots of people).
Sub 10 minutes on a local bridleway near me (Thornham Old Road).
Hopefully full bore racing with a race outfit, "job interview" and details TBA 🙂
Will be interesting to see how I can juggle the team schedule with work / family to see if I continue or revert to privateer in 2018.
I think for me, it'll be:
- start cycling to my work again
- lose 1 1/2 stone
- complete the Bealach Mor in under 6 hrs. ( 6hrs 1min is my best to date! )
thats good enough for me.
Tom - yeah it was an awesome course.
The med micro ran closely along side my course and it seemed to be very good.
However parasitology is just fascinating did my thesis in drug resistance in malaria.
Would love to go back and do another one
Lots of exciting things planned for next year, it should be a better year than 2016 at least!
New bike (probably Orbea oiz)
New job
Get on the property ladder (that's a big scary one!)
More holidays (Bruges in Feb already booked)
Go to more gigs (The XX and Sunn O))) tickets bought)
Do awesome things on bikes
Rovaniemi 300 (in 8 weeks 😯 )
Will probably make another attempt at a SDW Double - OK on an MTB/CX, bit tougher on a fatbike
Might make an attempt at a 100km running - work commitments make it harder to get the bike miles in.
Probably some ITTs and bikepacking....
Backpack my way home from oz with the Australian missus and hopefully reacquaint myself with the motherland for a few years. And make a decision about doing a masters or changing career, my enthusiasm for my current direction oscillates wildly.
Actually sort out my fitness and start riding and walking in some proper hills again. Also having failed to do even attempt this years half marathon maybe one of them. And start climbing again.
More holidays, including a slow photo/bike/ beer bimble round the Tour de Mont Blanc.
SSCXEC, skitouring Norway, BOTB, Lakes 100, SSUK. Bit o bivi'ing.
CX ride home from work next Friday. 😀
Edit: I'll have a 1987 Raleigh Randonnuer built up shortly (thanks to the extremely generaous teasel off here), with bar end shifters and 2 bits of Carradice luggage, so I really should find some audaxes!
Get down to comfortably under 16 stone and stay there by Easter (currently 16.8)
Get down to 15 stone and stay there by the summer.
Cycle Greenwich Park to Paris in the few days leading up to Easter (arrive Paris good Friday)
I've entered the ballot for ride London - doubt i'll get a place as done it the last 2 years via the ballot.
Might do Dunwich Dynamo if I don't get a ride London place.
Ride more than 3000 miles. This was my target for 2016, I'm currently at 2800, and have a very busy two weeks ahead of me so don't think I'm going to make it. 🙁
Audax! 3 start from Elstead on 4th June. Rideable from home.
110, 150, 200km, depending on how I'm feeling nearer the time. 😀
Mountain bike is Ard Moors and an off road tour, probably a coast to coast from Inverness to Ratagan via Glen Affric or possibly a Cairngorms loop. Apart from that try to tick some Scottish classics boxes.
Road bike is a Mull tour and a tour up North taking in a bit of the NC500
Running, I've entered the Glencoe marathon, going to try my hand at hill running and probably a half in there too.
The kids are a wee bit older and I have a wee bit more free time on my hands so getting a bit fitter will be the overall aim for the year.
Trying to work it out at the moment but depending on whether I have to have an operation on my ankles:
Dyfi Antifreeze
Jennride
Home to sea over a weekend
Snowdonia big offroad loop linking Penmachno, Marin, Antur and CyB.
A couple of uplift days.
A fortnight in BSM (and try to get back to Pila).
I've managed to wangle a weeks paid biking next year, the only drawback being it's in the gravity enduro discipline! Sites being visited include Revolution Bike Park
I've never competed before and probably the most down-oriented biking I've done is the blues at BPW.
Objective : Try not to die.
Plan : Train fitness, lose weight, ride more challenging stuff.
Firstly 50 in Jan so off to Seville for a few days. Then plan on getting the all clear from the hospital....got camera down my old man into my bladder to look forward to!!!. Then some riding...Mayhem 24hour solo already booked. Hopefully all or some of.... Scott Marathon series. Possibly Manx 100, Kielder 101, Wales and Scotland trips definitely this year. Basque country in motorhome again with a trip to Orbea factory and maybe hook up with Basque Mtb in Hondarribia, then if time allows on to Zona Zero for some quality riding. Busy busy busy.
Even with the rides I've not Strava'd I'm struggling to hit 700 miles this year which is utterly crap (even more so since nearly 250 of that is a 2 mile ride to the station and back whenever I feel like it). Going to aim for a thousand proper off-road miles next year and ride to the station every day.
Events wise I'm doing the Ard Rock. Can't be faffed with anything else at the minute. The PMBAs seem to have got a little serious for my liking from what they were like a few years back when I first started doing them.
I'd quite like to organise a local, completely low key 'enduro' using Strava to time segments etc if I find time.
More trail building.
Give myself a big kick up the arse to motivate riding to work at least twice a week (27-odd miles there and back).
Generally improve my fitness, strength and flexibility by getting back into regular swimming, rock-wall climbing and yoga.
Thin down my collection of assorted bicycle odds and sods, sell off my half-finished and in some cases unstarted projects to find some breathing room.
Spend more time on a ****ing bike than looking at pictures of cycle-related shiny stuff/fantasising about what components my dream bike would consist of.
Get more involved in local trail building/maintenance.
Maintain a Strava-free cycling life.
Generally take more time out to smell the roses...
Working on my VeloViewer Explorer Square (currently 12x12)
This sounds interesting, what does it mean?
I have yet to finalise any plans for 2017. I cannot decide whether to aim for 5000 or 6000 miles, although 5000 is a bit of a cop out.
Have yet to decide on our main holiday, but at the moment am considering (wife and I) cycling from Belfast to Dublin to Cardiff - people's thoughts ??
However, I would like to be a bit more adventurous this year. Following the bimble thread, the 'lonely' threads and the bivi/wild camping threads, I am considering suggesting an STW beginners, bimble, bivi/wildcamp weekend trip somewhere in central Scotland. However, I'm no planner and rather shy.
Busy one next year...
BPW in Jan hopefully have the Banshee built by then
Lakes for some big stuff & Swanage for Singlespeed by the sea in May
Italy with Ridgeline again for some even bigger stuff in June
Ard Rock
Secret Garden Party (non bike related face pulling festival fun)
Trans Savoie - doesn't get much bigger than that....
In between working very hard to pay for it all...
Just the BC bike race with bullandbladder up there ^
And RideLondon for Crohns and Colitis UK.
Tour of Ben Nevis.
A few road trips hopefully to The Lakes and Scotland.
A few big days put on the road bike ticking off some of the routes out of 40 Great British Bike Rides.
And maybe pop my bike packing cherry.
@gauss1777: The Veloviewer Explorer Square is the biggest number of contiguous NxN OS map squares you have ridden in, so 2x2, 3x3, etc. Veloviewer get their data from Strava so you need to log your rides there.
@whitestone: thanks, I even learnt a new word 'contiguous' 🙂
Lakes Easter
Cairngorms Summer
If fit enough Viking Challenge in October.
Hit my mileage target next year missed it this year due to new job and a couple of injuries.
Loss a stone in weight.
Save some money for a new ride in 2018.
have a lot of fun.
For the 5th year in a row I plan to do the west highland way. You never know, might actually happen.
Mostly just going to keep doing the same stuff I always do, because it's ace.
Ahem not that I stupidly started a duplicate thread because I didn't do a search! (Hoping it disappears off pg1 soon)
My aims are
1) Race a 12hr solo (twentyfour12)
2) Do some bikepacking including some wild camping
3) Ride the SDW which may include goal 2 as I am very slow!
Carry on with Bivi a Month
The Bear Bones Winter Event
Dirty Riever 200
Bear Bones Welsh Ride Thing
#JennRide
A week in Iceland Fat Biking cherry picking the best spots
Growing a pair and doing the Bear Bones 200
Help mates get into Bike Packing
Get my weekly mileage back above 150.
Outlive my last 2 dogs.
Got my first gravel race of the year in February, in Australia. Might also try to ride across Tassie on the same trip or do a route like the Goldfields Track.
We did consider riding Paris-Roubaix again because it's an awesome ride but will probably do a long weekend in Mallorca instead.
We've Twentyfour/12 in the diary too. But most importantly I want to do more bikepacking in 2017, just weekends away on the Grade or MTB. Looking forward to 2017, from a riding pov...
Don't feel bad bout using strava et al, do whatever you want chuck...
Getting back into road riding after a decade of avoiding it (for personal reasons). Nothing serious like racing, just to mix things up from hammering the same local loops all the time on the mtb's
SDW in April, either over 2 days or in one depending on the weather at the time.
Getting my jump and drop skills back in shape after gradually losing them over the last 18 months.
A few days exploring the IOW hopefully too.
Fred whitton if i can get in
Tour in belgium 5-7 days
Leeds trialthon
Ripon Triathlon
Pennine bridleway
And some nice big xc days out in the dales / north yorks
super.
Beskidy MTB Trophy 4 day in Poland in June
Lighthouses Challenge
Manx 100 in July, but maybe just the 100km
Manx End2End in September
Inspiring stuff here.
Due to a combination of 3.5 months of whooping cough, a persistent bad back, and general idleness, I've ridden probably less that 10 times this year. Once commuting to work, and three BMX sessions at the skatepark - so almost no MTB. I've done tons of walking in and around Bristol, though, and also a long walk in Spain from Montserrat to San Vicenç de Castellet.
So the upcoming year has a pretty low bar to clear. Based in Bristol so lots and lots of Exmoor and Quantocks. Across the river to Wales/Forest of Dean. Visit relatives who live on a mountaintop top in southern Spain. Next trip to my Scottish inlaws will see me taking cycling gear so I can ride Dumyat on the bike I've left there. This Christmas staring at that snow-dusted mountain was rather frustrating!
Ride more than this year (well down on past two years, mostly down to change of jobs and commuting opportunities).
Get round 'Ard Rock without any issues (health or mechanical).
Finally build my bamboo road and monstercross (off the cuff hack of a second road bike frame kit) bikes.
Helvellyn (after finally doing Skiddaw this year).
Maybe back to the Alps for a flying visit.
Persuade a couple more riders to complete a team for Mountain Mayhem.
West coast of the UK MTB road trip (Fort Bill > 7 Stanes > Lakes > North Wales > South Wales) now I have the van for it.
The idea of getting back on my bike anytime soon seems a long way off. I came off my bike in September and broke my collarbone. The break was right at the end of the clavicle, not a candidate for surgery.
Finally have the space in the garage to set up the turbo, I think that that will be the extent of my riding for a little while longer.
A conference, but might still be of interest.
New to the South West, so...
Get to know the Quantocks
Exmoor Explorer
Exmoor Beauty (road)
A ride on Dartmoor.
Make some new riding buddies.
Dirty Reiver
Jenn ride
Doing a bivi ride on the MTL
I'm taking 3 months off work Jun-Jul-Aug & I'm going to finally get to Cape Wrath plus Fort William for the World Cup round.
If I can fit it in I also want to do the Cairngorm Loop.
I'm also doing a trek around Mont Blanc over a couple of weeks.
Then there's the motorbikes,Classic TT in August.
New to the South West, so...
Get to know the Quantocks
sunday again? 🙂
you aren't doing too badly already. more than many!
i'm a little sad i started the journey a year ago and think i have little left to explore up there, and have done all the seasons 🙁
2017 mission - colour back in my heatmap for it 🙂
Exmoor Explorer
Exmoor Beauty (road)
A ride on Dartmoor.
dartmoors been on my list for a while too.. however.. its more restrictive than other locations
and we've talked about exmoor which is also on my list, i've only been riding the very eastern edge, not porlock
once i'm fully over this xmas cold thing and clocking in some elevation!
Make some new riding buddies.
well one so far! with 2 others.. hopefully you'll meet the other two regular members of my local gang soon enough, and maybe even the other big group i ride with!
my list..
continue to try and improve climbing.
my goal this time last year was to do the holford green car park -> dead womans ditch route without stopping. i havent done it and am sometimes barely faster than i was in 2015, however. there is an improvement trend (mainly because my cadence is a little quicker, and i think i recover faster when i pause on the climb). (just made a segment for it, since one didn't exist https://www.strava.com/segments/13998851 its a cat3 climb over 2.5 miles of 617ft)
the other climb from there goes up ladies edge, i've only ridden up the last section ONCE, two bikes ago on a late 90s hard trail.. i want to be faster than on whichever old bike i did it fastest on, and make the climb on my current bike! i've not ridden that way for ages, and will be doing it sunday for a change.
skills wise. try to find local places/trails that challenge and improve. drops/jumps so i can take on more 'well enduro' stuff. (i like fast flowing, natural downhills, but flowy man made stuff can be good.. i'm looking for something inbetween..
learn my way around the mendips properly. i've ridden there a handful of times but apart from one time (i got a bit lost) was with a local group and I have patchy knowledge of the full layout and couldnt find "yee-haw", "wiggly woo" or "mendip magic" apart from spotting the trail on the fireroads by chance. its also a mud pit, so thats a late spring, summer excursion.
still learning my way around the dunster/minehead side of exmoor at hopcott (where southern enduro event is in april)
other local stuff
woodbury common - not been, much closer than dartmoor and supposed to be good when drier. forest of dean & ashton court.. similar story.
not sure about a a BPW trip... theres plenty free stuff to explore closer to home!
