2010 Resolutions

itboffin
itboffin Posts: 20,072
edited December 2009 in Commuting chat
Well it's almost that time again, so what are you all planning for your 2010 "cycling" resolutions.

Note the "cycling" in that sentence :lol:

Me i'm planning the following
    drop 20 lbs again! buy a full carbon road bike beat this years mileage ride a major European sportive route break the elusive 1000miles in a month finish the sportive metric challenge stay injury free
That's a pretty tough list
Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,456
    itboffin wrote:
    drop 20 lbs again!

    the same 20 lbs as last time? :twisted:
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,456
    3500 miles
    Have a crack at the metric challenge
    Do a sportive
    Ride every chance I get. No excuses.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    try another sportive as last one I was up til the wee hours waiting for police etc, so wasn't the best start.

    do some more MTB maybe try surrey hills again, though more take the MTB back to my folks places and ride on some proper lumps and bumps.

    maybe do a TT as might well enjoy it. I know i'll not do other races though I'd love to at lleast watch a cycle X race.
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    Get rid of belly.
    As yet unnamed (Dolan Seta)
    Joelle (Focus Expert SRAM)
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    I would like to love my bike again.
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    To loose weight, lots of it.
    Ride a larger tour then last year.
    Make sure that I do all the fettling on Charlie.
    Keep Charlie clean and well maintained
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

    FCN: 11 (apparently)
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Damn you ITB they're my resolutions :wink:

    My revised list is

    Lose 10lb's
    Get my commute up to a 20mph average
    Drag my old backside up to CAT 3 (I think CAT 2 is sadly out of reach these days)
    Ride up Harknott and Wrynose pass (no walking this time)
    Go for a VO2 max test so I officially know how unfit I am
    Get a full, fitted, carbon road bike from Cyclefit
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Hmmm...

    Slowing down this year because of impending birth, so realistically:

    Stay same weight, just gain more upper body strength.
    8000 miles this year, down from 12,000 last few years
    Join Track racing league in Newport
    Build New Track bike

    Try not to dissapear for hours/days on my bike!
  • Bikerbaboon
    Bikerbaboon Posts: 1,017
    hummph has some plannning on this one.

    Get fit for the dartmoor sportive.
    loose 1/2 a stone..... Mince pies and snow... folloing 3 weeks off the bike with a chest infection soon stacks up. :oops:
    try for a 1000KM month.
    that said also spend more time with Mrs Baboon.
    Nothing in life can not be improved with either monkeys, pirates or ninjas
    456
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    I'd just like to be able to ride my bike again in 2010 ASAP
    Want to know the Spen666 behind the posts?
    Then read MY BLOG @ http://www.pebennett.com

    Twittering @spen_666
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Should you include resolutions that are dependant on outside circumstances?

    Keep cycling
    Start cycling longer distances
    Get fit enough to sustain at least 12mph (on the flat)
    Get a road bike (not sure that will happen unless I win the lottery :()

    Oh and the usual, loose some weight
    Whippet
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Cycle more
    Kick Jake's arse
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    Finish my audio visual show and tour with it
    Move up the ladder in my day job...possibly at a new company..(don't you just hate glass ceilings???!!)
    Enter a road race/Sportive
    Re-model my kitchen
    Play with the big boys ;) (no its not what you think!)

    Thats it for now..
  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    Sorry itboffin :P

    What is the sportive metric challenge
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    moonio wrote:
    Sorry itboffin :P

    What is the sportive metric challenge

    Get thee over to the sportive section young lady and marvel at my almost clean sweep of the 2009 metric challenge, shame that torn ligament ruined Nov/Dec for me :cry:

    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12599236
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • the article don
    the article don Posts: 578
    This is a great resolution:
    break the elusive 1000miles in a month


    Upon reading that, I've been inspired to set aside the month of April 2010 to attempt this

    Thanks!!!
    Giant Trance X 2010
    Specialized Tricross Sport
    My Dad's old racer
    Trek Marlin 29er 2012
  • Iwingstein
    Iwingstein Posts: 111
    Hmmmm,

    Lose 5 stone (will be happy with 4 - 4.5) - yes about 32 bags of sugar - who needs a lightweight bike when I can lose the weight of two!
    Cycle more - try and get to the elusive 700 miles in a year :D Might even make a 1000. Would be pleased to do 50/week in reality
    Swim more - get back to what I was doing before next item
    Get my ribs sorted after mishap involving jumpimg a stream and a large rock (on 23/8/09)
    Have more time free
    Get toy car back on the road
    Get back into painting (ie do a second one)
    Buy a caravan
    Pay off a bit of the mortgage
    Start the extension
    etc
    etc
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Ride more bike.

    Do at least one sportive.

    Do more touring.

    Get an even stupider cycling tan.
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • lastant
    lastant Posts: 526
    Get average speed up

    Get myself a 'proper' road bike (which should help get average speed up, so sort of nulls that one!)

    Start as I mean to go on and keep cycling, aim for at least 3,000 commuting miles

    LEJOG over two weeks at the end of May / start of June

    Should all help me get down to 80kg from the current 87kg-ish!
    One Man and LEJOG : End-to-End on Two Wheels in Two Weeks (Buy the book; or Kindle it!)
  • essexian
    essexian Posts: 187
    Mine are:

    To lose another 3.5 stone which will take me down to around 14.5 stone (I started at over 21 stone).

    Do at least 3500 miles next year (1860 so far this year since May)

    Do at least one sportive and finish in the top 60 (Doing the shorter Cheshire Cat....67 people entered so far!)

    Do the C2C and return via the Hadrian Cycle way over six days in June.

    Get my average speed up to above 14mph (currently around 12.8mph: up from 10mph when I started).

    Do one ride of at least 100 miles. Not done that distance since 1985!

    Be nice to the current wife in the hope she will forget that I agreed not to buy anymore bikes.

    Take at least one photograph a day (nicked that idea from someone else on this site. Think its a great idea).

    Go to the ballet more (yes, I like men in tights) and go to more than the 5 gigs I managed this year.
  • andy83
    andy83 Posts: 1,558
    to see 14 stone something on the scales
    do 6000 miles in the year, (raising money for charity but not all commuting)
    get two more bikes (mountain bike and cx bike, i know i know)
    improve times and average speed.
    not let my illness stop me cycling for 3 months like this year :(
  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    The main thing I'm planning for is the British Legion London-Paris ride in September, so:
    1. Prepare for that- keep on riding at least 50-70 miles a week as I have been and I reckon I should be fine. I rarely do less than 25 or 30 on my weekend rides, frequently 40 or more in an afternoon, and I don't pootle, so an average of 70 a day shouldn't be a problem. Certainly not taking it for granted though!
    2. More FNRttCs. http://fnrttc.blogspot.com/
    3. Sportive? Maybe. There's quite a few down here. Wouldn't hurt as part of 1.
    4. IOW Randonnee again (2 May) plus maybe one or two laps of the island other times.
    5. More mileage, more speed.......
    Dahon Speed Pro TT; Trek Portland
    Viner Magnifica '08 ; Condor Squadra
    LeJOG in aid of the Royal British Legion. Please sponsor me at http://www.bmycharity.com/stuaffleck2011
  • mkirby
    mkirby Posts: 365
    buy a bike that actually fits me
    Start doing the 17 mile round trip to work. Hopefully building to 3 times a week.
    Cycle from Morpeth to Craster and back.
    Enter a Sportive if there are any in the north east
    Spend 3 weeks cycling across Vietnam in November (fingers crossed)
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    mkirby wrote:
    buy a bike that actually fits me
    Start doing the 17 mile round trip to work. Hopefully building to 3 times a week.
    Cycle from Morpeth to Craster and back.
    Enter a Sportive if there are any in the north eastSpend 3 weeks cycling across Vietnam in November (fingers crossed)

    Have a look here: http://www.cyclosport.org/search.aspx?d ... =1&search=

    Worth keeping an eye on too, in case it's updated.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Rich158 wrote:
    Damn you ITB they're my resolutions :wink:

    Ride up Harknott and Wrynose pass (no walking this time)

    ooh now there is a idea, in terms of resolutions hardknott and maybe rosedale.

    though probably putting away the old daemon which is one of the hills back in wales. would be my resolution.

    last year the day after the black mountains I managed the lower half before turning off. but I'd love to do the whole lot which while short, only half a mile is steep as it climbs 500ft, it's not a terribly pretty climb but it makes up with so steep it's silly.

    I used to walk up that hill from school and learnt to hill start cars on it, we have history.
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    edited December 2009
    Keep up my 150+ mile weeks, if my next job doesn't include a viable cycle to work then 80+

    Enter a Sportive, most likely the Sandown 65 miler in February.

    Ride around a Velodrome.

    Run the Reading half marathon in late March in sub 1Hour 40, going to be very tough with all the cycling and niggles that are coming with it.

    Cycles from London to Bournemouth for the weekend to see some freinds and prepare for the next resolution.

    Cycle from London to Rome, leaving May 29th, looking to cover 100 miles a day in order to reach the Colosseum in under 2 weeks. Attempt to raise £1 for every mile between our team.
  • singlespeedexplosif
    singlespeedexplosif Posts: 1,564
    10,000km for the year
    lose 20Kg
    get under 21 mins for a 10
    do more mountain biking
    race on the track
  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    For 2010:

    hit the elusive 11 st mark
    finish building my project road bike
  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    linsen wrote:
    I would like to love my bike again.
    Holding thumbs for you!
    David
    Engineered Bicycles
  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    My goals:
    Get a job in London so I can rejoin the SCR fun.
    Race a full crit season without illness or injury.
    Win a race at either The Hill or Palace.
    Collect enough points to crack a spot in 2nd Cat.
    Do a long tour - something like 1000 miles in 2 weeks.
    Start a bike company.
    David
    Engineered Bicycles

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