2017 Biking Goals
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2016 is drawing to and end and I’ve been reflecting on the past year of biking. It was a great year on a bike for me. Some of the highlights:
Participated in Freezing Saddles
Bike my first century
Had so much fun riding my first century that I rode 12 more in 9 states and the District of Columbia
Started a coffee club
Biked across Iowa in RAGBRAI
Biked over 10,000 miles
Volunteered to help build the Alexandria Bicycle Campus
Spent 737 hours pedaling, the equivalent of biking non-stop for an entire month
Enjoyed more sunrises and sunsets than in the previous 36 years of my life combined
Biked to Baltimore
Biked to Annapolis
Marshalled the Arlington Fun Ride
Followed Ian Fingerman’s advice about making friends, “Everyone here likes bikes, just talk about bikes.” Talked about bikes, made lots of friends.
Biked the Delaware & Raritan Canal, which was beautiful.
Instigated some great group rides (Mason Neck, Indian Head, Christmas lights, Great Falls) Tricked Komorebi into doing the route planning for most of them.
Spent a whole lot of time riding with my biking soul mates, Komorebi and LeprosyStudyGroup (7.8 days with Komorebi this year and 4.2 days with LSG according to Strava Roster)
Spelled out “Shue Sucks” in a parking lot at the Pentagon2017 Goals
Bike the entire C&O
Centuries in 5 more states
Attend Bicycle Advisory Committee Meetings
RAGBRAI again
Do all of my own bike maintenance
Volunteer at more events (DC Bike Ride, Air Force Classic, WABA Rides)
Ride 11,000 miles in 2017
Stop and take more pictures
Finish the fixed gear project
Try bikepackingI’m curious about what other people’s bike highlights were in 2016 and what you aspire for in 2017.
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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?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Because I knew my buds would think I was exaggerating
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bikecentric/29351024515@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
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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, 20152017 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 yearWow! 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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@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. 😮
@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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@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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@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:
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Exactly!!! WOOHOO GO ME!
I know I’m forgetting some things, but here’s my go at this.
2016 Highlights
- finally going to my first coffee club (mostly HDCC, some WTFCC) and attending more on a semi-regular basis (note: I did NOT drink any coffee, it was mostly water or hot white chocolate 😎 )
- destroying my personal best for longest ride (was around 104 miles) by going on rides in chilly March to both Annapolis (120.1 miles) and Baltimore (114.6 miles) while getting over a sinus infection during the week between each ride
- hitting 6,000 miles biked for the year for the first time ever (previous best was ~5.1k)
- enjoying the challenge of researching, filming, and creating videos with voiceover (thanks to Judd’s suggestion) for bike routes to help people get around Metro’s SafeTrack surges
- doing bike-related volunteer work (ped/bike counts for Alexandria BPAC, light giveaways, shoveling snow off the MVT and CCConnector, demo work for bike school under the Wilson Bridge)
- informal group rides including Midnight Saddles, Holiday Lights, and Indian Head/Fort Washington
- convincing the rest of my siblings to restart biking (we all biked as kids, but only I never stopped biking; one sister was already biking and did a half ironman this year, my other sister started doing some casual rides this year, and my brother recently bought a bike and rode it a little) and getting to ride with my nieces (6 &
who both stopped using training wheels this year
2017 Goals
- the following rides (there are many more, but I have never done these):
- RAGBRAI for some country-riding
- Kill Bill (at least attempt it, or do part of the route without dying)
- bike around the Beltway; here’s the route I created for it: https://www.strava.com/routes/6356076
- a duathlon; I will need to start running again to do this
- get more involved as a newly appointed member of the Alexandria BPAC
- create a series of videos (still brainstorming here) to highlight bike routes or general biking in various areas/neighborhoods/etc.
- go on rides with my brother and his family
- bike on Amtrak to to a multi-day ride home
- since I will be moving sometime near the end of summer 2017, get immersed in Seattle’s bike culture
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