biking goals 2018.

[hozn]

@Judd 170347 wrote:

For folks that love data, you can get a nice free infographic of your 2017 riding from Velo Viewer at https://veloviewer.com/infographic

Here’s mine:
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You ride so many more miles than I ever have! But I think your HP laps are working against you on the elevation numbers.

My mileage, while a little down this year, is apparently enough to get me back to Antananarivo, where I grew up.

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[Steve O]

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This was my most annual miles ever. There will be no running section in next year’s.

[Judd]

@LhasaCM 170350 wrote:

Very nice. Here’s mine, while I ponder new goals:

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Nice! Way to ride every day in 2017.

[Judd]

@hozn 170355 wrote:

You ride so many more miles than I ever have! But I think your HP laps are working against you on the elevation numbers.

HP does kill the elevation. I usually don’t get the Strava elevation badge until the last few days of the month. It’s part of the reason why I’ve vowed to do less HP laps this year.

[mikoglaces]

I had two goals for 2017: to ride at least 8,000 miles, and get my weight down to about 80 kilos. I called it Project 8K and 80K (catchy, right?). I rode 10,110 miles. I lost weight but only half of what I aimed for and gave up months ago and haven’t weighed myself in a while. I am now fattening up to survive winter bike commuting before starting on my next sisyphean weight loss project.

[rachel_c]

Hey! I just discovered this forum and this whole “freezing saddles” thing. I rode 22 miles today and I am still frozen. So anyway goals for 2018….

1. Complete two century rides.

2. Complete 5K miles for the year.

3. Get faster! I have only been biking since the summer, but I am hoping to get fast enough to consistently reach a 17 mph pace on longer rides.

Happy New Year to everyone. I am so glad I “discovered” cycling. I wish I had started years ago.

[Rootchopper]

My goals

1. Don’t die
2. Don’t get hit by a big metal thing
3. Ride my 10th 50 States
4. Lord willing and my blood don’t clot, ride to the Pacific.

[Subby]

@Judd 170434 wrote:

HP does kill the elevation. I usually don’t get the Strava elevation badge until the last few days of the month. It’s part of the reason why I’ve vowed to do less HP laps this year.

Excellent. You are one step closer to living forever.

[Steve O]

@Steve O 169929 wrote:

My consistent goal is 400+ miles per month
Same goal next year.

I forgot, I also set a goal to reach a Climbing Eddington number of 1000 (imperial) by 2020. My goals are to reach 800 this year, 900 in 2019 and 1000 in 2020. According to Swinny.net, I need 514 days over 1000 feet climbing over the next 1095 days.
Hmm…now that I am reading this, that seems a bit ambitious: 1000 feet+ more than 1/2 of all the days for the next 3 years. We’ll see.

[Steve O]

So I noted this recently:
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My metric climbing number. This means that I have climbed at least 401 meters on at least 401 different days since I started using Strava in 2012.

As mentioned in my prior post, my stretch goal is to reach an imperial climbing number of 1000 by the end of 2020. I am currently at 825. According to swinny.net I need 362 more days of climbing 1000 feet or more to reach that goal. There are about 113 weeks left, meaning I need to climb 1000+ feet 3.2 days per week. Or about 14 times per month.
Since that post I have reduced the number of days required by 152 in 309 days. If I maintain that pace I will just make it.

[josh]

I set some goals (most at the end of 2017, but I did add some during 2018) for this past year, and I managed to achieve most of them!

Succeeded:

• Ride 10k miles
• Do a cross race
• Do a gravel race
• Do a Wednesday Night Spins race
• Do the Dirty Bikeneticrit (technically a road race?)
• Learn to trackstand
• Top 5 FS individual mileage
• Learn cross mount/dismount (needs work)
• Average 40 miles per day during FS
• Learn to ride no hands

Failed:

• Ride everyday (fell off the train on Cinco de Mayo I believe, didn’t worry about missing days later, and that’s probably a good thing for me mentally)
• Learn to bunnyhop
• Do a max mileage day (I saw a forum member’s Strava ride, and saw it on Reddit too, of a 24-hour ride done at Hains Point, 300+ miles, and wanted to try)
• Put 200 miles on my mountain bike (was more like ten miles)
• One century per calendar month (only happened in six months)
• Learn cool fixed gear mount/dismount (like swinging your leg over the bars I can do like dcv, but I’m wary of dismounting and throwing the bike in front of me while clipless)

[lordofthemark]

@lordofthemark 169898 wrote:

2018

exceed 2017mileage, whatever it turns out to be
At least match FS performance
Ride GCCCT all the way south to Occuquan
Ride C&O to Great Falls
Ride another century, with more time to spare
Break 13MPH commute
Eddington number to 14MPH.

(I also need an elevation goal, but will reflect on that later)

Mileage – goal met – 4211 vs 4116

[Crickey7]

I don’t have a goal, it’s more a vivid and recurring dream I have where I can do wheelies effortlessly, and then I wake up convinced that I really can do them. Perhaps this is the year.

[lordofthemark]

@lordofthemark 169898 wrote:

2018

exceed 2017mileage, whatever it turns out to be
At least match FS performance
Ride GCCCT all the way south to Occuquan
Ride C&O to Great Falls
Ride another century, with more time to spare
Break 13MPH commute
Eddington number to 14MPH.

(I also need an elevation goal, but will reflect on that later)

Mileage – goal met. 4211 in 2018, vs 4116 in 2017

FS – goal met – over 1000 miles vs under 800 miles.

GCCCT – despite a lovely ride led by Reji, did not go to Occuquan. Goal missed.

C&O wimped out over towpath washout reports and didn’t ride the C&O at all. Goal missed.

Century – didn’t do more than a metric the whole year I think. Issues managing weekend time. Goal missed.

Speed -did not break 13mph avg speed on commute, and I don’t think I broke 14 on eddington. Goal missed.

OTOH did some other stuff. Rode to a medical appt for the first time. Attended FCC (original) and FCC 2. Led a newb I found on NextDoor on a mentoring kind of ride. Spent a lot of time doing stuff wrt Seminary Road, and other BPAC stuff, and got to know a bunch of local pols. Helped with a bike rodeo. Got more confident doing bike mtnce, including changing my own brake pads. Rode in Albany NY and Boulder Co, rode to Pike and Rose in MoCo, rode on Beach Road and the upper part of RCP in DC, rode to Lorton area of FFX, rode the FFX county parkway, rode Lee Highway and far into North Arlington.

[LhasaCM]

So – resurrecting the 2018 goals I had started drafting but never posted:

Maintain the same or better mileage, with more consistency, i.e., less of a gap between my mean and median. In 2017 I averaged just under 10 miles per day, but a median mileage of just over 6.
– Let’s call this a push. I rode about 600 more miles (4,251 vs. 3,639) which is good, I think. As a result, my average was up (11.6) and so was my median (around , so the gap was pretty much the same.

Fewer “sleaze” days (more than 1 but less than 2 miles) while continuing to ride every day.
– Success – 17 in 2017, down to 8 in 2018 (2 since the end of April).

Find a way to make it to at least one coffee club (needs to be a later one given drop-off responsibilities and probably in the summer when I have a bit more flexibility time-wise).
– Failed. The extent of my morning socialization has been the monthly Trail Ranger events on the MBT (since those are literally on my way to school/work). We have been able to make it to more happy hours, though.

Continue expanding my max. cluster and max. square (as measured on Veloviewer). Basically – this goal helps encourage me to explore more of the metro area by bike and see new places.
– Success. By the end of 2017, I had a max. square of 7×7 and a max. cluster of 56. I ended 2018 at 9×9 and 122, respectively.

Continue finding balance in properly encouraging my wife to bike to work without overdoing it
– Success, I think. Part of it was being supportive/encouraging of her job change, which got her a mile closer to home and with an easier bike commute (and also easier Metro commute). I think the next step is an e-bike…

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