2017 Biking Goals

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  • December 30, 2016 at 3:10 pm #1062329
    Judd
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    @consularrider 151037 wrote:

    2016:
    – Was way too lazy, but did cycle in several new (to me) countries.
    – Extended my string of consecutive months with at lest one ride of 100 miles to 72.

    2017:
    – Get off my lazy butt and ride more.
    – Continue my century-a-month string.

    We must start new countries for Chris to ride in. I’ve enjoyed all the pictures you posted this year.

    I also thank you for inspiring my own century a month endeavor.

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    December 30, 2016 at 3:20 pm #1062330
    Judd
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    @Harry Meatmotor 151038 wrote:

    2016:

    • No broken bones from fall-down-go-boom
    • ????
    • Profit!

    I’m a big fan of not breaking bones particularly after cracking my ribs this year. And way to go on winning a race. I’d like to do a race just once.

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    December 30, 2016 at 3:22 pm #1062331
    drevil
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    @Judd 151050 wrote:

    That log jump is pretty impressive. I hopped a curb this year. :). Did you measure the log or was it a guesstimate?

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    Because I knew my buds would think I was exaggerating :)
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/bikecentric/29351024515

    December 30, 2016 at 3:32 pm #1062332
    Judd
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    @Sunyata 151039 wrote:

    2016 Highlights:
    Almost doubled my Freezing Saddles mileage
    Went bikepacking for the first time (and also got hypothermia for the first time :( )
    Bought my first set of studded tires and used them
    Came in 2nd in a 6-hour solo MTB race against some pretty tough competition
    Came in 1st in the Women’s Open category at GRUSK
    Had an amazing cross season, getting on the podium multiple times
    Bought a drop bar gravel bike (drop bars are scary!)
    Made even more amazing bike friends
    Crushed my initial yearly mileage goal (4,800) by a lot (over 6,300!)
    Have ridden every day since December 30, 2015

    2017 Goals:
    Ride every day during Freezing Saddles (keep the streak alive!)
    Get more comfortable on drop bars
    Bikepack again (without the hypothermia this time)
    Increase both speed and endurance
    Do more gravel races (Dirty Kanza is on the calendar if I can get in)
    Learn to remount my bike properly (cyclocross-style)
    Buy a cross specific bike
    Move up to a Cat 3 in cyclocross
    Get more women involved in racing (MTB, gravel, & cross)
    Ride at least one metric century 10 months out of the year

    Wow! What a great year! I would add the accomplishment of assigning teams for FS. The teams were incredibly well balanced.

    Where did you go bikepacking to?

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    December 30, 2016 at 3:48 pm #1062333
    Drewdane
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    2016 saw a major drop in saddle time with no real excuse. 2017 goals are to get back up to a 3X p/week commute routine and get back into mountain biking on a regular basis.

    December 30, 2016 at 4:07 pm #1062334
    jrenaut
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    @Judd 151048 wrote:

    When do the kids get kicked out of the cargo bike nest?

    Well, since DC has decided to push off the 6th St bike lane until who knows when, I don’t really know. There’s no good way for them to get to school without riding on sidewalks. But they’re definitely getting heavy. And tall.

    December 30, 2016 at 4:25 pm #1062335
    Anonymous
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    @Judd 151050 wrote:

    That log jump is pretty impressive. I hopped a curb this year. :).

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    I figured out how to lift my front wheel about 1mm off the ground. Maybe 2mm. Sometimes. 😮

    December 30, 2016 at 4:47 pm #1062336
    Judd
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    @Amalitza 151057 wrote:

    I figured out how to lift my front wheel about 1mm off the ground. Maybe 2mm. Sometimes. 😮

    Picture of DrEvil measuring or it didn’t happen. Proportional to the size of your bike, 2 mm is a pretty decent jump. ;)

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    December 30, 2016 at 4:58 pm #1062337
    Judd
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    @jrenaut 151056 wrote:

    Well, since DC has decided to push off the 6th St bike lane until who knows when, I don’t really know. There’s no good way for them to get to school without riding on sidewalks. But they’re definitely getting heavy. And tall.

    Cause getting your kids safely to school will totally deny someone’s freedom to practice religion. ;)

    It’s good to know that constructing that bike lane will be beneficial for you. It’s reframed it in my mind as the “Bike Lane Project that will help Jon’s kids get to school safely.”

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    December 30, 2016 at 5:20 pm #1062338
    Anonymous
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    @Judd 151058 wrote:

    Proportional to the size of your bike, 2 mm is a pretty decent jump. ;)

    waffling as to the appropriate response to this. It’s either:

    Ha.
    Ha.
    Ha.
    :mad::rolleyes:

    or:

    Exactly!!! WOOHOO GO ME! :D

    December 30, 2016 at 5:38 pm #1062340
    Sunyata
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    @Judd 151054 wrote:

    Wow! What a great year! I would add the accomplishment of assigning teams for FS. The teams were incredibly well balanced.

    Where did you go bikepacking to?

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    I am hoping the team assignments this year are pretty similarly balanced. I just finished running my formula and assigning the teams (they all have even numbers, woohoo!), so hopefully it works out just as well.

    As for bikepacking, it was a “trial run” trip on the C&O from my house in the Fairlington area to the camp spot near Calleva. We then kept going west until the freezing rain started and turned around (the forecast said 49 and cloudy, it turned out to drop to 33 and and started raining). By the time we got back to Riley’s lock, I was hypothermic. Luckily I have awesome friends who came and picked us up. 😎

    Next year, I want to do the Montgomery County loop.

    December 30, 2016 at 6:14 pm #1062343
    megoc42
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    2016 highlights:
    My first half-century (cide ride – thanks, WABA!)
    Helping some friends on their path to being regular bike commuters
    Helping my 5yo learn how to ride

    2017 goals:
    Full century
    Beat my 2016 mileage

    December 30, 2016 at 6:23 pm #1062344
    rcannon100
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    2017 Goal: Drink excessive quantities of Catoctin Creek Whiskey.

    December 30, 2016 at 6:33 pm #1062346
    dbb
    Participant

    @Judd 151051 wrote:

    We must start new countries for Chris to ride in.

    Not until he has used up the last batch. I thinking of the new (to us) Balkans states and others in Europe.

    December 30, 2016 at 6:41 pm #1062348
    vern
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    @rcannon100 151066 wrote:

    2017 Goal: Drink excessive quantities of Catoctin Creek Whiskey.

    Same goal every year, right?

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