[Closed] Your Cycling Goals

Ho ho ho! My physique is more like Mr Blobby at the moment!

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Reduce my focus on goals.
Ride in more beautiful places.

Seriously, 50 later this year, I'm not going to get any quicker but I have got enough money to travel so doing more of that is a goal I suppose.

edit: Oh and I would like to look more stylish on a bike, it must be possible to cycle without looking like a total goon.

edit 2: more tattoos

Had four main goals for this year:

Rovaniemi 150 (winter fat bike race in Lapland) - done
Highland Trail 550 - done
Sub 30hr Yorkshire Dales 300 - done

Which leaves ...

Cairngorms Loop

1. To not be 'that person' on a group ride that the others keep looking over their shoulder at.
2. To keep the enthusiasm to ride hard and not just chase junk miles or pointless strava sections ... plenty of time to do that when I'm old

4 watts per kg ftp in the fairly near future. (Raise ftp from 273 to 300 and reduce weight from 80 to 75kg).

Long term goal, 5 watts per kg by reducing weight to 70kg and getting ftp up to 350 watts.

Sub 7 hour Fred Whitton (anyone know if 4w/kg is likely to achieve that time)?

Nothing desperately specific, but in general terms,

- try and keep an even split between mtb and road (in time if not in terms of km covered)
- ride a bike for fun every weekend
- climb faster on the road bike
- weigh less (see previous point)

Looking at people's distance goals, I've done nearly 2500km so far this year so it'd be nice to hit 4000km for the year.

Do a 1000 mile month.
Ride lake Geneva in under 6 hours. Not far off this one but traffic Ian a couple of points can really screw your time.
May do it at night to limit the variables.

Lose 5 more kg
Manage to complete 12hr solo at 24/12 in a few weeks (not sure I can do that)
ride off road every week and get a bit faster!
Actually stick at a sport, rather than swapping because I am slow and a bit crap!

disco_stu - Member
1. Finish a 100 mile road ride

I completed my first 100 mile last weekend which was a few months earlier than I had planned - it was on the Bloodwise / Wiggle Bikeathon in 6h 25m, I'll need to have a look at either some better bib-shorts or the saddle on my road bike as I could barely sit down on the ride to work the next day.

I think I'll add doing the VeloBirmingham in under 6 hours onto the cycling goals.

Well, I've been working on a ride from the coast where I live to the family farm. I'm using NCN routes heading up the backbone of the country, so far I'm just underneath the M62.. bike cleaned and ready, seat pack almost packed.. this could happen early next week..
Expect a 4 day pootle with nice hotel/bnb stop offs.

At my age, the big success is to slow down the deterioration of strength etc to maintain the level of crapness of last year.

Not got much for this year planned because of a leg injury but I have some audaxes coming up soon.

Next year: solo in 'Puffer on SS as usual.
Entered in that bikepacking round Britain 5,000km ride for next year. (God knows how that will go)
And I intend to enter the WEMBO 24 hour Solo 2018. May be reduced to gears by then though.

Let's have a go:

- Ride 3 times a week. Currently managing that 🙂
- Do one early morning road ride a week for 2 hours.
- Get back to 62kg or less in the next 12 weeks.

With a 20 month old at home, another on the way, and a business to run my cycling goals are quite simple - just to be able to ride sometime

Just finished my route planning from the M62 to Harrogate, total 504k.

Yip yip huzzah.

For someone to have to pry my cold dead hands from the bars when they find me in some random hedgerow somewhere having ridden to a ripe old age.

For someone to have to pry my cold dead hands from the bars when they find me in some random hedgerow somewhere having ridden to a ripe old age.

Like. 8)

Keep enjoying it.

I would like to be able to go bigger, faster, with more confidence etc. but I push hard enough that it's fun and realistically I'm not going to improve one thing without doing less of another thing - which is fine as long as it's fun.

Biking trips with kids on proper trails is a bit of an aim, though it kind of depends on how into it they get!

jwt - Member
For someone to have to pry my cold dead hands from the bars ... having ridden to a ripe old age.

Enter the StrathPuffer. You can achieve that without going to the bother of dying... and you'll feel ancient, guaranteed. 🙂

Just get some time on the flipping bike would be good about now.
And get my Jedi skills day that my wife got me vouchers for ages ago booked.

Keep enjoying riding
Do the mega again
Do a tdf stage finishing at the top of ventoux. Obviously i have to do the descent too.

1. Recover from a broken collarbone, I'm 10 days and counting from surgery.

2. Work out what I can realistically cope with, riding-wise. Pre-kids I could average 12 hours a week riding without too much trouble. Now I can just about cope with eight without getting ill regularly.

3. Become a resilient runner, see above...

4. Learn to wheelie properly.

5. 2018: 3 Peaks (had an entry for this year but that's been scuppered by my collarbone, marshalling instead) a quick SDW with a friend, TorTour in July, Win the Sport category at Beastway.

Besides pushing my boundaries on distance, average speed and cat4 hill climbing times...

My impossible mission for this year is to get from home to work in under 15mins!

I've had a number of good runs fail by less than 10secs due to bar-steward red lights, so I'm now exploring slightly longer routes that encounter less of these infuriating things (which often won't change for me until a car pulls up behind me), in the hope that maintaining faster speed will overcome the extra ~0.5 mile! 😆

To cycle more than I do

bikebouy - Member
Just finished my route planning from the M62 to Harrogate, total 504k.
Yip yip huzzah.

2 or 3 hour long cycles a week, and one of a few hours too if time allows. I want to get 'properly fit' and this seems like a good starting point.