How's this years cycling plan going?

[I like Skol]

I am failing badly! I am supposed to be covering a lot less miles this year, the plan was for 50% of the past 2yrs, but as it stands unless I take a prolonged lay-off I will still cover at least 75% of last years distance.

 

[4F]

Pretty much on target. Plan is for 6000 miles which is 2000 more than I have done over the past 2 years and I am currently about 100 miles down on schedule.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Bit behind at the moment but a few good weeks should put me back on target.

 

[jefmcg]

on the 18th of January I decided to try to enter Paris-Brest-Paris. I'm a long distance cyclist, but slow, so this will be a definite stretch for me. To qualify, you have to complete approved rides of 200, 300, 400 and 600km before the end of June.

3 days later I broke my clavicle. A month after that, my mother died on the other side of the world.

No, my cycling plans are not going well.

 

[Rob3rt]

Race results thus far = 4th, 1st, 3rd, 5th, inc beating a young domestic neo-pro (only by 2 seconds mind) & a couple of local riders I have not previously beaten, currently sitting at the top of the local time trial association points league (although it is not a primary objective of mine to remain there), training >12 hours a week on average (~3500 miles in total), power coming on okay.

On paper things are going reasonably well, I need to keep reminding myself of that since in my head, there is a mental wobble in progress!

 

[Soltydog]

Bit of a mixed bag then Well done to all those reaching targets they have set
This is the first year for 6 or 7 that I have actually set targets. Since suffering from depression years ago I've tried not to get too bogged down with stats, times targets etc, but felt I needed to push myself this year & got to admit I'm feeling a better all round with the increase in my cycling activities
Symapthies to those with injury/illness etc that's preventing riding A couple of years ago I was off work with a bad back & off the bike, only did about 650 miles in 2013, but now I find that cycling actually helps my back, still have back aches & pains but bearable nowadays.

 

[CUBE CRD]

No target set,and this will be my first full year of road cycling (bike acquired through C2W last August) - I've clocked 816 miles since 1st Jan,although a percentage of that is turbo time which I have calculated at my average speed on the road.Getting a bit more mileage with the longer evenings so I will be interested to see what the figure is come Xmas.Might even treat myself to N+1 as a 'reward'

 

[winjim]

Cycled all through the winter snow, which was good. Was hoping to get out more with the club and maybe get competitive but that's not happened due to there being something even more awesome than cycling happening in my life.

Summer will see a significant rise in commuting miles with commensurate fall in weekend riding.

Learned how to build wheels, now pretty much mechanically self sufficient.

 

[lee1980sim]

Some of you people's targets are imo outstanding

My first target is 1500 miles (last year I did 1260) and my "we'll see" target is 2015 miles as last year I completed 2014 kilometres, so far I'm upto 568 miles since 1st January, all of which is outdoor mileage

 

[Big Dave laaa]

I've signed up for Cav's sportive so it's keeping my training regime on target mind you it's a killer of a route so I'll still struggle

 

[potsy]

Absolutely atrociously is the short answer

Think I am averaging 1 commute in 5, hardly any leisure riding at all, even my modest yearly target of 2000 miles looks a forlorn hope at the minute.
Hoping a new bike reactivates my interest or I'll be in serious danger of giving up altogether

 

[Mugshot]

Target is 8000 miles for the year, did 7500 last year. Have done about 2600 so far (need to update my ticker) so I'm on target for my total. Decided to try to do 200 + miles a week in Feb in honour of the HAMR boys doing it on a daily basis and as far as I remember have done it for the last 6 weeks. Am aiming to do 3 imperial centuries this year too, but they can wait until it's a bit warmer. All in all, it's going OK

 

[Gravity Aided]

Weather finally getting warm enough for some prolonged rides, so I'm upping the distance a bit this year. Last years issues held me to about 1100 miles, so I am going to try and double that this year.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I'm still on course to do mine.

 

[ColinJ]

~24% of my year's target distance in ~28% of the year! (966 miles out of 4,015 - my target is an 11 miles a day average.)

That's ok considering that I had a really bad bug coming in to the New Year and we have had some spells of dodgy weather. Things are picking up now so I hope to achieve my target, and if things are looking really good later in the year I will reset my target to something more challenging.

I managed 99% of last year's target, only scuppered at the end of December by the aforementioned illness.

I am 60 next year and am hoping to ride 6,000 miles to mark that milestone.