Yearly Targets for 2018

[HLaB]

Do people count mile on trainers as miles ridden?

Not me. It might be useful for your own comparison though but keep it separate IMO; 'I did XXXX road miles and XXXX turbo miles'. Its no good for shared site comparisons though as you don't know if the miles were done on a low resistance or one with high resistance. For instance on my old magnetic turbo in setting 1 I could sprint up to 58mph but on my current fluid trainer an all out sprint gets me around 19mph and I am putting out more power.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I also don't have a mileage target as such. The main specific target is at least two imperial centuries in each calendar month - qualifying rides under the terms of the ICAM challenge - and barring illness or injury I'll do that.

I've noticed I'm approching 100 centuries since starting to record via GPS (February 2016) and if I get a move on I could do it in under 1000 days. That would be neat, but just at the moment I don't feel I can give quite enough priority and I might have to settle for under 3 years.

The quality of rides (I'm not attempting to define that) has been good this year, but they get inexorably slower.

I’ve also set my heart on my first attempt of a RRTY award. That is a Round the Year Randonneur award which is a randonée (minimum 200km Audax event) every calendar month of the year. No skipping a month or you start all over again. So far I am 6 months in. Gulp.

 

[ColinJ]

I wanted to 'conquer' all my local climbs this year. I've done them all bar 2, I'm doing one of them next weekend which will leave one particulary steep effort with some nasty, narrow, twisty bits to go. Need to do it before the roads get icy but it's the only one I'm truly dreading... keep telling myself it's all in the mind...

Which climbs are those two?

 

[gavroche]

I would be ashamed to put my mileage so far on here so I won't. I will simply say it hasn't reached 4 figures yet.

 

[nickAKA]

Which climbs are those two?

Beal Lane / Grains Road - https://www.strava.com/segments/2200579
Buckstones Road (this should be reasonably straightforward but my mate reckons it's worse than Ogden) - https://www.strava.com/segments/646910

Full disclosure - these 2 are about a mile away from home so I've avoided them because I can't get a proper warmup in pre-climb unless I set off in "the wrong direction"
https://www.strava.com/segments/646910

 

[ColinJ]

Beal Lane / Grains Road - https://www.strava.com/segments/2200579
Buckstones Road (this should be reasonably straightforward but my mate reckons it's worse than Ogden) - https://www.strava.com/segments/646910

Full disclosure - these 2 are about a mile away from home so I've avoided them because I can't get a proper warmup in pre-climb unless I set off in "the wrong direction"

Ah, funnily enough I was looking at Buckstones on my map the other day and thinking that I hadn't ridden it for a year or two. I find it okay since losing weight but pretty tough when I did it weighing 16+ stone. I have had problems with mad drivers and motorcyclists in both directions though. It is the kind of road that they seem to like to speed on.

I haven't ridden Grains Rd. I come in from the North so I take the B6197 to Dog Hill. Quite hard, with extensive views across Greater Manchester.

Yes, tough climbs from a cold start are not pleasant! I have some pigs round here with gradients to 20+%. I nearly always do battle with the traffic on the A646/A6033 first to warm up

 

[Crackle]

Gavroche, use onions. Let's say the average onion is 3 inches and you've done 700 miles, then you've cycled just over 14 million onions this year.

 

[ianrauk]

The megameter challenge for @gavroche
Post your distance in meters.

 

[nickAKA]

Ah, funnily enough I was looking at Buckstones on my map the other day and thinking that I hadn't ridden it for a year or two. I find it okay since losing weight but pretty tough when I did it weighing 16+ stone. I have had problems with mad drivers and motorcyclists in both directions though. It is the kind of road that they seem to like to speed on.

I haven't ridden Grains Rd. I come in from the North so I take the B6197 to Dog Hill. Quite hard, with extensive views across Greater Manchester.

Yes, tough climbs from a cold start are not pleasant! I have some pigs round here with gradients to 20+%. I nearly always do battle with the traffic on the A646/A6033 first to warm up

Buckstones downhill is the closest I've ever come to being wiped out at high speed (a car pulling out of Grains Road, ended up in the gutter on the wrong side of the road). It can be terrifying on busy days and best avoided if it's icy (ditto up over Ogden, Huddersfield Rd).
The roads over near you I've ridden quite a lot this year just because of the variety plus lots of cyclists so 'safety in numbers'... that said between Littleborough & Walsden there's a disproportionate number of angry motorists on the wide section of 50mph road adjacent to the canal... must be something in the climate

Early summer I rode the A640 up to Marsden as often as I could... with decent weather & light traffic it's a fantasic, rewarding trundle, brilliant views up at the top!

 

[Twizit]

No official target but I've done between 6-7,000 miles in each of the last 6 years, except last year at 4,500 which speaks to how rubbish work was in 2017. Didn't improve much at the start of this year so a slow start but now up to 4,500 miles and should reach 6,000.

Next four days coming up in Mallorca should help

 

[pjd57]

I'm not wrapped up in counting miles but signed up for 2018 in 2018.
Flew by it easily, so decided to try for another 2018.

Only problem now is I changed phones and the new one keeps losing bits of my rides.

 

[si_c]

I'm not wrapped up in counting miles but signed up for 2018 in 2018.
Flew by it easily, so decided to try for another 2018.

Only problem now is I changed phones and the new one keeps losing bits of my rides.

Does it drop into power saving mode? If so it might be turning the GPS off, it's happened on an old phone I had. Also if you keep the phone in a bag, it might not be getting a good GPS lock - a phone case on your handlebars might fix that.

 

[pjd57]

Does it drop into power saving mode? If so it might be turning the GPS off, it's happened on an old phone I had. Also if you keep the phone in a bag, it might not be getting a good GPS lock - a phone case on your handlebars might fix that.

I think it's just a poor phone.
I've tried various things but no luck.
If I hadn't been on holiday straight after I got it, it would probably have been returned.


Not a fan of phones on mounts where you can look at them.

 

[steveindenmark]

I planned for 8000km and am at 7037km at the moment.

I also planned to ride an ultra distance ride in 2018 and rode The Tuscany Road ride in September.

 

[ianrauk]

I planned for 8000km and am at 7037km at the moment.

I also planned to ride an ultra distance ride in 2018 and rode The Tuscany Road ride in September.

Tell us more about the Tuscany road ride.