My year picked up since last post, March and April we had that dry spell, so bagged 600 and 597 respectively so woot! there.
May was a bit rubbish and I’ve had low level sniffles throughout and still not shifted, a rather poor, considering the time of year, 436 (I should clock ~100 a week just commuting)

Managed my first 500 mile month in June, I’ve lost a few pounds as a result, sadly 95% singlespeed commuting miles.

1000miles on the Mtb for May. Not felt great for June though.

I’ve been doing 500 (road)miles/month as part of my commute recently and I have to admit that it feels really good! I can see why you’d want to commit to it 🙂

I managed 500 miles in two months of the year which was a bit of an improvement, just over 4300 miles for the year in total, though there were too many commuting miles and hardly any mtb miles.
This year I’m hoping to get to 5000 miles.

dunno about 500/month, but I certainly plan to ride more than last year (not hard, rode 0 miles since Morzine in July!)

good to see I didn’t come last on the stats

need something to motivate though!

I gave the 500 miles a month a go during 2015. I sailed through the first 7 months of the year until August and the first 2 weeks being taken up with the family holiday. Fitting 500 miles into the second half of August was a bit of a challenge but I had expected it. September and October were ok but then it got really hard once the clocks went back. It wasn’t so much the dark mornings and evening of November and December more the constant rain and wind! The weather during these 2 months seriously tested my resolve!

Anyway, I managed to complete it but I won’t be actively trying to complete it again that’s for sure. November and December are seriously tough months to ride a 1000 miles in!

Junk miles – descending for your next climb during Rapha Rising.. in shitty weather. Wearing out your rims a lot quicker than normal.

That’s sort of why I didn’t really choose a distance goal last year, and don’t really want to this year either, but I do need something as motivation.
When I set an annual target, I ended up going out on the CX bike just for the sake of making the number higher.
Also had similar issue with the photo-a-day thing. Half way thru the year you take a photo of literally anything at 23:59 just to say you’ve taken a photo.

I did an Everest last year. http://www.everesting.cc/
That was good as a target.

Got a couple of rides in the planning stages at the moment which sort of tell a story – there’s a purpose and connection with them rather than it simply being out turning the pedals so I’m hoping that those will work as a motivational tool as well.

And I’ll do LEJOG again which is an easy way of doing 1000 miles in 10 days!

I think time goals could be a better idea. Say want to ride 10 hrs a week – this takes into account different types of biking (mtb clearly takes longer time per km than road) and still gets you out. Of course if you commute then 10 hrs will go quickly but you get the idea.

Strava has facilities in place to set time per week goals and track progress I believe.

I was in a similar position, end of November and over 600 miles still to do which is difficult in a usual December. Fortunately the weather was okay, no icy days, so did over 600 in December taking my annual total to 6027, 7 more than 2014, and cracking the 6000 on 31st December (I did want to ride that day anyway). But I was off the bike the whole of October 2015 recovering from knee surgery so I was delighted to get over the 6k.

Not sure I’ll bother setting any targets this year but I’ll see how it goes. Although I would like to get a 1000 mile month in this year, tried last year but only got to 933.

137 miles so far, if I can keep that up for the next 51 weeks..

Yep – managed 501 for January – didnt get in the Fred Whitton – so I have to do something – bloody windy tonight though on the commute home

Not
Even
Going
To
Bother

😆

managed a big fat 0 in January

one thing I can say for sure is that I can’t do worse in feb 😉

251 for me in jan
was nowhare near the target for last year so have lowerd to 3000miles for the year as this years target

1136 km. Set a target of 300 km/week but I think 250 is more reasonable. It was a bad month and cycling is the prescribed therapy 🙁 . I did complete the Rapha festive 500 last week instead. What do I win?