2014 Targets?

[User6179]

Get slower, put some weight on and cycle less , well if I went on the way I did in 2013 Sky would be on the phone before January was out

 

[Herbie]

Well, in as far as 2013 has gone, I am pretty damned pleased! I started cycling about March time, but didn't log the miles at that point...I have logged the miles since June 24th and I will be on 4000 miles at the 6 month point on Xmas eve! Of course, my aim will be 8000 miles in a calendar year. I'm still at it, still chipping away at the miles in winter and hope to really get the miles going again in spring. It's hard work in winter, I was 18 mins behind a personal best time the other day and I was really trying! I don't know if I am getting weaker, but it sure feels like it!!

I went to Puerto Pollenca a few years back as a non-cyclist and vowed that one day I would return as a cyclist to cycle to the Lighthouse at Formentor...and this year I did it!! This isn't much of a distance, it's like 26 miles or something, it's just one hell of an uphill ride, especially on a heavy hired commuter bike with a shopping basket on the front!! Cycling through the dark tunnel on the route was the scariest thing I have ever done, or will ever do - it was literally life and death stuff with no lights on the bike!

So, in regards to 2014, it's more of the same, with the 8000 miles in a calendar year as the main target, but to still be cycling this time next year as the ultimate goal!

What are your plans?

I fancy another wee World Tour o Scotland....thinking aboot a scoot roon Orkney

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Get a number back on my back again rather than messing about:
A few TTs and get PBs for 10 and 25
Mersey Roads 24 hour TT

plus a few audaxes

and no sportives (I'll be wearing the numbers, not my bike, thank you very much!)

 

[Keith Oates]

At the moment it looks like being a busy (work wise) year ahead for me so keeping to this years target may not be possible. However I will try to get at least one FNRttC/CC ride in again this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Exile]

Right now, my three goals for next year are (in no particular order) go faster, go further, get lighter.

If someone managed to talk me in to adding a fourth it'd probably be fall off less, but I'm not sure I could stick to that one, especially since I was given a gift which now means I've got the fabled 'clipless moments' to look forwards to...

 

[Telemark]

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Persuade the owner of our food stop on Arran to marry me
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Is THAT the reason you are so keen on Arran?

My goals are just to carry on cycling and enjoying it as much as I am this year, including more magical night rides, a week at a cottage somewhere in Scotland or Northumberland with the bikes (Mull, Oban, Orkney, D&G, NW Highlands, to name just a few options on my wishlist), weekend tours and dayrides locally, lots of CC Ecosse rides, and not to forget - beating @Col5632 on MCL

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[Col5632]

Is THAT the reason you are so keen on Arran?

My goals are just to carry on cycling and enjoying it as much as I am this year, including more magical night rides, a week at a cottage somewhere in Scotland or Northumberland with the bikes (Mull, Oban, Orkney, D&G, NW Highlands, to name just a few options on my wishlist), weekend tours and dayrides locally, lots of CC Ecosse rides, and not to forget - beating @Col5632 on MCL

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Haha good luck with that

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

To finish within top 10 on mycyclinglog.com cc group. The inspiration being a bloke I see regularly on my uni commute told me he's over 70 years old and was gutted he'd only done 8000 miles in 2013 and his cycling miles increased ten fold when he gave up drinking in 1986.

If he can do both at three score and ten plus, then I should be able to do similar at two score and four!

 

[nuttall1991]

Save up for a new bike (thinking the triban 5) and with a new bike partake in my first sportive! Didn't realise how many there were around me in the North West.

 

[Vikeonabike]

Dropping down to being a one car family.. So I'm aiming at 4000 miles!
Or 77 miles a week!
Or 2.5 commutes a week!

 

[Leescfc79]

I had a really slow end of the year with very little cycling and lots of eating so I need to lose a few pounds.

At least 1 100 mile ride

Make riding more sociable with more cafe stops

Try and get out when the sun isn't shining!!

 

[Alun]

Dropping down to being a one car family.. So I'm aiming at 4000 miles!
Or 77 miles a week!
Or 2.5 commutes a week!

How do you do 0.5 of a commute?

 

[Snapper88]

For 2014 my target is 5000 miles, complete my first 100 mile ride & to shed at least 3 stone (and keep it off)

Oh & maybe learn how to fix & replace parts on my bikes properly

 

[Shaunthesheep]

No fags beer loose weight and ride 3000 mile only done 800 since June so a big step up for me still planing a Sumer holiday touring round Lake Constance with a Rotterdam to Amsterdam leg chucked in to get the overnight train down to Constance

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I just want to continue what I've been doing for the last 5 years, i.e. going faster and further. I don't know about getting lighter, though, as my weight's already at about optimum. I have the Audax Alpine Classic planned for late January (250km and about 4500m climbing), and will be doing a few epic practise rides in the next few weeks, as I'm on leave right now (yay!). I'll report these on the CC Travelogues thread . Then I plan to continue along the same lines for the rest of the year! Oh yes, and I want to get my annual average up a bit, because it's currently sitting on about 15,940km (for the last 4 years), and I think an imperial 10,000 annual average would look heaps better .

My other targets are to continue using CycleChat, and actively participating in various threads (tech, beginners, commuting, general, campaigning, cafe, etc. I enjoy using CycleChat, because it's a very friendly cycling forum .