New Years Resolution: how many miles?
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I’m at 2736 right now for 2012, so I should hit 2800 by the end of the year. Possibly 2900 but probably not, depending mostly on borrowed bike access while visiting family for the last two weeks of the year. That’s with nothing in January or February and very little in March, so I would expect to at least hit 3000 next year, possibly 3500. My phone says I rode 659 miles in 2011, but I didn’t buy it until June, so I’d estimate about 1000 last year, with that probably pretty typical for the past couple years (though I was not keeping count until I got the handy device which does it for me). I knew I rode a lot more this year, but I’d have guessed closer to twice as much rather than 3 times as much. huh, data.
I agree with this, though, so I’m not making goals for any of those miles.
@DaveK 37603 wrote: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
My actual goals are
1) To keep riding all through the winter.
2) Somewhere around May-ish (or whenever it is we get reliably good daylight between at least 6am and 8pm) to make some attempts at commuting. Sticking with it is not necessarily a goal, because I’m uncertain about how safe I’ll feel on certain sections of my available routes until I actually try them out, on a bike, at the correct commuting times of day. But at least giving it a try. One way per day, doing the round trip once or twice a week. (I will have to get a LOT faster if I ever think I’ll have time to ride both ways in the same day as anything other than the occasional challenge).
3) Get better at hills. Up them and down them. I’m a weak climber and scaredy-cat descender, so they slow me down way too much (see above about getting a LOT faster). Plus, there is this hill :mad:between my house and the shopping center which houses useful places like the Safeway, CVS, post office, ABC store, wine shop, bike shop which is a large enough hill to be a disincentive for me to bike to those places for errands (unless I’m already biking elsewhere and just stopping on the way home). It’d be nice to be strong enough at hills that I don’t mind that one so much. It has not gotten any easier in the past 1.5 years I’ve lived there and been riding on it regularly, though. (I do feel inordinately proud of myself for my ability to ride it at about 4mph when I see other people walking their bikes up.
)3) Get better at hills. Up them and down them. I’m a weak climber and scaredy-cat descender, so they slow me down way too much (see above about getting a LOT faster). Plus, there is this hill :mad:between my house and the shopping center which houses useful places like the Safeway, CVS, post office, ABC store, wine shop, bike shop which is a large enough hill to be a disincentive for me to bike to those places for errands (unless I’m already biking elsewhere and just stopping on the way home). It’d be nice to be strong enough at hills that I don’t mind that one so much. It has not gotten any easier in the past 1.5 years I’ve lived there and been riding on it regularly, though. (I do feel inordinately proud of myself for my ability to ride it at about 4mph when I see other people walking their bikes up.
)Tell us more about where this hill is. It sounds like a nice KOM!
The last few years I averaged about 300 miles a year….this year my goal was 1000 (which I will hit with my next ride this week)
Seeing as how, in my work commute alone I have the potential just over 3700 miles, I don’t think 3000 miles is a bad goal…I more than tripled my typical riding this past year, even though I was down for the count with a knee injury the first few months, and I spent a month driving because of a change in job sites…so yeah….. 3000 in 2013.
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