New Years Resolution: how many miles?

[Dirt]

My goals for 2013:
1) More dirt, less road — I’ll still do most of my miles on the road, but I’d to balance it out a bit more.
b) Plenty of mountain bike tandem mayhem. Gotta build the damn thing first.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@essigmw 37588 wrote:

My goal for 2013 is 5000 miles.

That’s my goal for the coming year, too. I think I’ll be somewhere between 3200-3300 by the end of this year, my first year bike commuting.

[creadinger]

I’ve been pretty consistent for the past 6 years achieving between 3,000 – 4500 miles each year. This year my goal was 3250, but I reached that in October and will end up with about 4100.

Next year I think I’ll make my goal 3,500, but I’m going to push for more miles in the winter, spring and fall so that during the disgustingly hot days over the summer I won’t need to get up at 4am to avoid 100+ temps. I also don’t have any big rides planned for summer so I won’t need to train for anything. Maybe I’ll focus on commuting instead.

More than an annual mileage goal, my main goal for the year is to complete a 300K. I also want to drop 20 pounds permanently.

One of these years coming up I’d like to bust out like 10,000 miles and just go for it but I don’t think I’m there yet.

[TwoWheelsDC]

5k here as well. Strava shows me at about 3.5k since April, so I’m probably around 4k for the year. I think 5k will be easy now that I’m commuting every day and I won’t have a wedding and house purchase to deal with this coming year. Additional goals:

-at least one ride with 10k feet of climbing
-ride Alpe d’Huez (summer vacation, woohoo!)
-do the Rev/Freshbikes rides most weeks

[Greenbelt]

Looks like my 2012 resolution to not drive or take Metro to work all year is going to work out. According to my favorite met student mid-atlantic winter storm enthusiast/blogger, no significant snow or ice storms on the horizon through the end of December. Barring injury or accident…

2013 goal: learn how to properly ride a MTB!

[americancyclo]

My resolution is to stop logging miles in a spreadsheet and comparing with previous years. I’ll be happy to let garmin and strava take care of that daily math for me. I’m 2 miles away from my 4500 goal this year, so my resolution is not to count next year, but plan more 100 mile rides.

[ShawnoftheDread]

I also want to do a century in 2013. Possibly on my hybrid.

[Bilsko]

@TwoWheelsDC 37592 wrote:

Additional goals:

-at least one ride with 10k feet of climbing

This is on my list too – anxiously awaiting Dirt’s revival of the Kill Bill ride.

[Bilsko]

I only started logging with Strava at the beginning of August and I’m at about 1,500 so far. The first half was much lighter mileage-wise for me so I expect I’ll end up with around 2,500 on the year.

The mileage trend for me should be moving up:
— down from two days a week at home with my daughter to only one,
–now have a trailer to take her with me on rides,
–and not least of all, getting acquainted with more of the BikeArlington, #fridaycoffeeclub, and DC Randonneuring folks for group rides.

Also, Freezing Saddles should be good motivation to log lots of miles through the winter months.

Goals for 2013:
— More rides with Forum folks,
— At least one multi-day ride (Allegheny Passage, C&O up to Harpers Ferry, etc.)
— 400k or 600k Brevet with DC Rand
— CX Bike

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Bilsko 37598 wrote:

This is on my list too – anxiously awaiting Dirt’s revival of the Kill Bill ride.

Oh man, I think I would go insane on that ride…10k of mountain climbing is probably way easier than 10k of Piedmont climbing.

[DaveK]

@TwoWheelsDC 37602 wrote:

Oh man, I think I would go insane on that ride…10k of mountain climbing is probably way easier than 10k of Piedmont climbing.

It’s not as bad as you think it is and the ride leader, whoever that crazy guy is, keeps things at a good pace for everyone to get through the day. I say this as someone who had to bail 65ish miles in because my lockring was about to fall off.

I did the “track everything” goal this year and I’m proud to say that I did. I’m getting to 5k for the year any day now. I don’t like mileage goals because they make cycling stray dangerously into “something I have to do” rather than “something I want to do”. I will keep tracking everything next year but I have no concern what my number ends up at – I only did it this year because I had no idea what it was.

Next year I have two goals… first to hit the rides I couldn’t get to this year and some that I didn’t know about –

Snotcycle (maybe)
Leesburg Bakers’ Dozen
Philly Invitational
Total 200, whether 200k, 200 miles, or aid station support
Alpine Loop Gran Fondo
MoCo Epic

My other goal is to race enough to break even on my license fee for the year. $60, 6 races. I think I can do that.

[DismalScientist]

Strava will tell me what my 2013 resolution was on December 31, 2013.

[Tim Kelley]

@Bilsko 37598 wrote:

This is on my list too – anxiously awaiting Dirt’s revival of the Kill Bill ride.

I’m excited about this too. Plan your yearly training schedule around it!

For comparisons sake, according to my power meter, the 11 and half hours of the Total200 was only tougher than Kill Bill by about 15 percent of total Training Stress Score.

And both were considerably more difficult than riding the entirety of Skyline Drive in Shenandoah.

[Dirt]

@Bilsko 37598 wrote:

This is on my list too – anxiously awaiting Dirt’s revival of the Kill Bill ride.

There are a lot of 10k climbing rides that are easier than Kill Bill. That said, Kill Bill will be back and “improved” for 2013. We had 4 of us finish it this year out of 12 who started. That is by far the best finish yet!

[Tim Kelley]

I get giddy just thinking about it!

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