2013 Cycling Goals

[bikepacker]

On my 60th birthday in June 2003 I made a plan to cycle 100,000 miles in the next 10 years. Having done 95,734 of them as of today, my next years plans are geared to completing the target with a 70 mile ride on my 70th birthday. The rest of the year will include:
3 week cycle camping tour in France in May.
3 week Coast to Coast of France in September
Either Scotland or Switzerland in July for 3 weeks.
Plus other cycle camping trips in UK.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Hopefully my plan is to do more miles than this year and do more longer rides at weekends when time permits! The miles in my sig are more or less commuting but now that I have gears Hopefully going to tackle some of the knee wreckers round my way which were hard going on the 48x16 fixed! Oh and shed some more timber, certainly trimmed down alot since start of year however that equates to about 3.5kg, just seem to have developed muscle no bad thing mind!

 

[Trickedem]

My main goal for 2013 is to do LEL. As part of the training for this I also intend to do some other Audax goals: RRTY. Randonnee round the year. 12 months of 200 km rides and a Super randonneur of 200, 300, 400 and 600km rides.
I'm also going to some nice social rides and a few FRiday night rides to the coast.

 

[TheDoctor]

My goals are :-
To get down to 90 kilos. That's less than when I did Ventoux a few years back.
Do another century.
Do a few weekend tours, and maybe a week-long solo one (partner permitting)
Get my FWD 'bent built.
Get my Kirk on the road.

 

[Matthew_T]

- To improve other peoples view of me on here (I am not a troll).
- 7000 or 8000 miles.
- Reach 50mph on my new bike.
- Beat plenty of Strava segments set by other people.

 

[Rob3rt]

Very difficult to pin down specific goals as I am a bit manic in my approach and tend to want to do a bit of everything so in the broadest sense, my goal is to get as much racing in and do as well as I can, regardless of format.

My focus will be on 10 mile TT's, 25 mile TT's (and some specific times on specific courses) and Hill Climbs, priority will be given to these events, plus a couple of 50 mile TT's. I am aiming to ride the National HC Champ's up the Stang, so will need to enter a few other open HC's in order to get something to write on my entry form. I will also ride a few of the local crit's and road races for the experience and training, will basically aim to be in the bunch at the end, if I can snipe a few point's here and there by riding smart, that would be great, esp if I can get enough points to move up to Cat 3 or beyond, but these races will firmly be considered supplementary to my TT season, not my priority.

My "project" this year will be to complete my TT rig build and then to start working on a bunch of weight weenie stuff for HC's

 

[Leescfc79]

Complete a 100k
Try a club ride
Go clipless

 

[Cycleops]

My goal is to get down the local shop in less than ten minutes for my packet of fags and can of coke. Haven't managed less than twenty so far.

 

[Cavalol]

To get rid of the modern bikes I have (bar two, which I won't sell) and probably continue to collect old ones instead. I must decide which of the current fleet deserves a full resto job, it'll probably be the Raleigh.

Big ride: All of the Coast-to-Coast (Morecambe to Brid) or (as early talks are being held soon] a sort of tag team event on a much grander scale.

 

[snorri]

I hope to maintain health and find sufficient energy to cycle through another year, I'll set the same target mileage even although I have not hit the target this year due mainly to poor weather causing me to curtail my summer tour.
My plan is to get away from the UK for a few weeks in summer, explore somewhere new and revisit places that appeal to me. I will continue to endeavour to find ways of going around hills rather than over them.
It would be nice to think that 2013 will be the year when Transport Scotland actually realises that cycling is a mode of transport to which they owe a degree of responsibility.

 

[cyberknight]

More miles !
Been a bit of a slack year for me so hopefully next year i shall get more long rides in and a couple of sportives.
If i can get the miles in i want to have a crack at the fast group of my local CC , they bowl along on a club run of 50-70 miles with an average of about 20 mph .Currently going with the medium group over a similar distance and spening most of the time on the front averaging 18 mph or so .

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I want to do what I did this year, i.e. lots of distance and lots of hill-climbing, because I find the latter quite addictive! In addition to that, I'd like to go on a bike-oriented holiday overseas, either in Western Europe or Canada, because I've been told they both have great hills for cycling. I don't know when the latter goal will occur (if ever), but it gives me something to look forward to.

 

[ianrauk]

@victor
If you ever get the UK, London in particular. I'm in no doubt that myself and a good few other CC folk would be more then happy to hook up and show you the sights. And could also arrange the borrow of a bike if needed.
So come on over...............

 

[Bill-H]

This year i have only managed 530 miles since i started with a learning curve lots of improvement needed but i am hoping to try and complete the following
squeeze in 2000 miles this year (around my 60 hour average week)
metric 100
75 mile
100 mile
but more importantly try improve my hill climbing currently get right down to 3 mph on my local hills
get my average speed up
lose weight
JUNE 2014 lejogle in 3 weeks

 

[mcshroom]

Hmm, this will make a nice list of missed targets next December.

In 2013 I aim to: -

Cycle the 8000km target I'm not going to manage this year (looks like I'll only get to about 7500)
Do another Metric Century a month challenge
Get below 100kg for the first time in many years
Do two cycle tours. Probably one in the Highlands/Islands and one in Northern Ireland
Do some more fell walking (I think I've only done one walk in the fells this year)