2019 cycling goals

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not just riding, but start running again

I need to lose the (almost) 2 Stone I've put on
Constant little knee 'niggles' when I've tried to run don't help


EDIT @ 09:10
Monday 10th

Weight....
At my 'peak' running weight, I was about 9 stone 11 ish
Now I'm hovering about 11 stone 10

 

[Aravis]

The Roaring Hundred and Forties.

A long-term ambition is to post a ride on Strava at every distance from 100 to 150 miles. For this purpose anything from 100.00 to 100.99 is 100 miles, and so on. This year I've managed to hit the outstanding seven numbers in the 130s, and now I just need all the 140s. If I can get half of those in 2019 I'll be very happy.

 

[Trickedem]

Lose a stone to help with the following.
1. Complete the Bryan Chapman Memorial; on my third attempt in 2018 I finally finished, but I was an hour over time.
2. Complete Paris Brest Paris.

Obviously doing number 2 requires lots of other stuff.

 

[NorthernDave]

I'm still trying to complete my 2018 goals!

I have completed the Half Century Challenge for a third consecutive year, but I'm still a few miles short of my overall target mileage (2,500 miles) - as I'm only able to ride on weekends, this is still possible but weather dependent now.

For next year I'd like to complete more, longer rides - most of the Half Century rides have been metric rather than imperial, and I've only completed a handful of rides at metric century distance (or longer) largely due to time constraints.

 

[Donger]

(1) Complete a real round the world distance. Currently 10 years in so far and over 22,000 miles .... just 2,900 to go to do the length of the equator.
(2) Another 3,000 miles in total. (Targets 3 and 4 should take care of this without having to concentrate too much on it .... they have this year).
(3) As many club rides and audaxes as I can fit in.
(4) Complete another Metric Century-a-Month Challenge to keep the run going and
(5) Two more Cat 1 Tour de France climbs to add to my collection. Aiming for the Col de la Colombiere and either the Col de la Croix Fry or a second climb of the Col de la Forclaz.

 

[PeteXXX]

LEJOG, hopefully.

 

[mattobrien]

Sub 19 minute 10 mile TT and a sub 48 minute 25 miler. How feasible that will be is a different matter. Here’s hoping for a few float days.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Get back on the bike ASAP after knee surgery in January. I’ll set myself a target of 2k road miles to have something to aim for although I’ll be very much led by surgeon and physio, and to use the turbo for rehab (not going to set a virtual miles target as that’s just silly)

I hope the op goes well for you.

 

[tom73]

As a newbie not sure what next year will bring. But open to ideas though.
Some I do have are
Be good to do a sportive or 2
Go clipless (just never happened this year)
Plan more rides out with Mrs 73 (need a n+1 1st though )
Get my speed up a bit.
Sort out some better bike storage (with extra room for n+1 or 2 )
Be good to double my 2018 mileage
Carry on fine tuning the engine.
Look into bike packing (looks great fun)
Carry on trying to get my mate on a bike though can’t see it happening. (he’d love it for sure and we’d have so much fun)
Above all just carry on riding and bringing on the smiles and fun.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm just hoping to get out and enjoy riding my bike. I've had two years of just fitting rides in where I can due to family illness so I want things to just be routine next year.

 

[cosmicbike]

I have no idea. I think less of a focus or overall mileage, and more on Explorer squares, plus riding the 2 recumbents. I may, or may not, go for the triple challenge rides again...

 

[Slick]

I'm just hoping to get out and enjoy riding my bike. I've had two years of just fitting rides in where I can due to family illness so I want things to just be routine next year.

I know what you mean, hopefully you get your wish.

 

[Sunny Portrush]

Get up Alpe D`Huez without passing out....

 

[I like Skol]

Goals....

Get older, wiser and more awesome than ever before!

Love my wife.

Love my kids.

Don't die!

Spend time with friends.

Maybe ride my bike more or less than I have this year, hopefully more, for various reasons.

Did I mention being even more awesome?

 

[Dave 123]

No goals.
To be honest I’ve not thought too much about 2019 yet. 2018 has been fairly enjoyable cycling wise, the highlight being riding the tandem up Ventoux.

We do have a trip to Mallorca booked in spring, which reminds me I have to book some hire bikes...!