Cycling Hopes And Dreams 2023

[Ming the Merciless]

What are your cycling hopes and dreams for 2023?

I’m aiming to qualify for and ride Paris Brest Paris in August. It’s a 1200km audax cycling event over 4 days and has been running for over a 100 years. Like the olympics , it’s every four years. It’ll be my third time riding the event where I’ll expect to meet 8,000 cyclists from over 50 countries.

More generally my long distance fitness / endurance drifted in the pandemic years 2020/21. I’ve made some good strides to get it back to where it used to be, this year. I’d like to make further progress on my fitness , which will make the audaxing more fun, and less full value.

I’d also like to do another tour in September or October, maybe in the Netherlands.

 

[Oldhippy]

To make the most of my Genesis and spend as much time away pottering and camping in the UK as possible.

 

[Brandane]

Hoping to go back to France for some form of a cycle tour this year.
Will aim to get out as much as possible without making it a chore; so come on weather, please be kind THIS year .
Most of all though, hoping to avoid injury and not get flattened by some self entitled nobber in a car.

 

[All uphill]

I hope to do more of the cycling that I enjoy.

Lots of local rides with Ms AU.
Frequent train and bicycle adventures - train to Bristol, Exeter, Cheltenham, Cardiff and cycle home for example.
A four or five day cycle tour in Ireland visiting family.
A 10 day tour in the Netherlands visiting my son.

All quite slowly with frequent stops for tea and sandwiches.

 

[cyberknight]

Not falling off

 

[vickster]

Not falling off

Did you fall of again?
I’d like a tumble & injury free year too!

 

[13 rider]

Drivers learn patience will do for me

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Just getting back on the bike will do me after an illness affected 2022.

 

[Cycleops]

Just hope I'll still be able to continue with cycling through the year and dream of still being alive at the end of it.

 

[MontyVeda]

More energy!

Having had pneumonia last Christmas, come summer I was struggling to ride half the distance i could easily do the year before.

 

[numbnuts]

Buying a car shopping by trike and trailer ain't no fun with - 4c and at my age too

 

[pawl]

To do more than the miserable 900 miles I did this year

 

[cyberknight]

Did you fall of again?
I’d like a tumble & injury free year too!

i did go over the bars and into a ditch middle of the year when someone touched wheels in a club ride

 

[HarryTheDog]

Work moves closer to my house so I can have a convenient commute or that work actually installs a shower would be a start.

 

[cyberknight]

Work moves closer to my house so I can have a convenient commute or that work actually installs a shower would be a start.

wet wipe wash
My job is sweaty and smelly so i just have a deodorant blast as i have an "aroma" of burnt metal after work