Cycling To Do lists - What's on yours?

CyclingBantam

Be it grand achievements that may take years to build up to, to climbing 'that' hill down the road, what are yours?

My top ones are:

Climb Alp D'Huez (In plan for late July),
Complete a Road Race in the bunch.
Complete a Time Trial. (In plan for Thursday!!)

PostieJohn

Atlantic to Med across the Pyrenees, next Sept or never.

Tonymufc

Racing is my big one for next year. Joining a club was on last years list for this year which I've done. If I race next year then no doubt there will be another set of goals to be set. As for finishing in the bunch, I'll be pleased just finish.

morstar

Last year I finally took part in a TT which was objective #1.

That has now moved to a target of a 24 min 10. So far managed 25:58 on a not particularly fast night. Lot of work to do but a good stretch target.

Last night, took part in my first circuit race so that was another box ticked. Now need to start finishing in the bunch.

SCR Pedro

To find a cute as f**k french wife, who is a better rider than I am, so I can just sit on her wheel all day and enjoy the view.

Maybe add the Grossglockner, Mt Etna, Stelvio and other epic climbs to the list...


Pedro

guinea

I want to get back under an hour for the Richmond Park challenge.

I also want to make it up a lot of mountains this year in the Alps and Pyranees. I've never done the Tourmalet and I fancy that. But since I'm just back on the bike after two years off, I think it'll be tough.

sharky1029

Downhill down kilamanjaro.
A 100 mile road ride.
Ride every trail centre in the UK in one trip (just the top 50 from the MBUK guide).
Become a pro and get paid to ride.

Plus anything ridiculous anybody ever suggests to me.

Anonymous

It was get to 2nd cat and do a 20min 10 but I've jacked in racing.
I'd also hoped to do Ventoux but I can't see it happening

EKE_38BPM

Do the Dunwich Dynamo fixed.

Crapaud

Vancouver to Inuvik in the arctic circle.

Plans are afoot, but it's probably some time away yet.

DCowling

at least one 100 mile ride ( will be my first)
and complete a total of 3k miles this year ( upto about 1600 so far)

coombsfh

New to road bikes so my first goals are simple enough:

- average 20 mph over 10 miles (firstly somewhere flat then gradually add a sprinkling of hills)

- do 100 miles in one sitting

- do over 30 and then over 35 on the flat and over 50 down a hill (only got bike comp yesterday so not sure how easy this is...)

- cycle to places I would usually drive over summer

- find someone to ride with back in wiltshire

- one day be good enough to enter a competition.

durrin

2011:
-10000 miles (almost 5000 now)
-12 statute centuries (7)
-52 metric centuries (28 ), with at least one in each month
-I had a goal of 30+kph for a metric century, but I already did that one, so maybe a 20+mph metric, or a 30+kph statute.

future:
-stelvio, ventoux, etc.
-a 5000m pass
-I've been thinking about PBP 2015

niblue

Main one I'm working up to is a 100 mile day. Only recently got to the stage of doing back to back 50+ mile days without feeling particularily tired so still a bit to go yet.

celbianchi

My current longer term goal is a 19 minute ten, I bagged my 20 earlier this season with 20'07 so I'd like to think on a good day/ course combo a 19 is in there.
I'd like a top 30 in the national hill climb and to top 3 in the 40's age goup.

I have this romantic idea of riding round the world like Mark Beaumont but I don't think that will ever happen.

rubertoe

first give up smoking then the world will be my Lobster! :oops: :oops:

100 Mile day.
Big Alpine Pass.
get a Better bike.

blu3cat

Win a spring classic, although seeing how the pros tail off quickly as they approach 40, I may have missed the boat on this one.

Anonymous

coombsfh wrote:

New to road bikes so my first goals are simple enough:
- one day be good enough to enter a competition.

If you can ride 10 miles you can enter a club 10!

greasedscotsman

NapoleonD wrote:

It was get to 2nd cat and do a 20min 10 but I've jacked in racing.
I'd also hoped to do Ventoux but I can't see it happening

Why no Ventoux Nap?

Keith47

Alp D'huez and Mont Ventoux . Predictable I know, but it's what I want to do. Two guys I work with did Alp D'huez 2 years ago and I'm determined to do it as well. And Ventoux? Just inspired to do it after watching a recent documentary on Tom Simpson.

Mark Bom

Mine is to do what a fella I met recently does.

He's recently retired at 51 and spends his time cycling with mates and planning and organising their next week long trip over in Europe for a bunch of 20 or so.

They're not a club, just a load of friends who pitch in and have a 'boys' week cycling, staying in nice hotels and enjoying good food and wine, nothing too serious but they do clock up a respectable amount of miles each day. They have a new jersey designed for each trip with a bit of local sponsorship and have a bloody good laugh.

That's what I wanna do!

zippypablo

niblue wrote:

Main one I'm working up to is a 100 mile day. Only recently got to the stage of doing back to back 50+ mile days without feeling particularily tired so still a bit to go yet.

this might sound daft but if you can do 50 then you can do 100. Set aside a full day, take a mate with you and get on with it. You'll be tired at the end but Target achieved. Seriously, just go for it!

desweller

Build my own tourer (as in, construct my own frame) and do an international tour on it.
Ride the Great Divide (not road bike I know but still...)
Get over 50 mph (fastest ever is 47.5 - so close!)
Get over 60 mph

Anonymous

Mark Bom wrote:

Mine is to do what a fella I met recently does.

He's recently retired at 51 and spends his time cycling with mates and planning and organising their next week long trip over in Europe for a bunch of 20 or so.

They're not a club, just a load of friends who pitch in and have a 'boys' week cycling, staying in nice hotels and enjoying good food and wine, nothing too serious but they do clock up a respectable amount of miles each day. They have a new jersey designed for each trip with a bit of local sponsorship and have a bloody good laugh.

That's what I wanna do!

Holy carp!

Could this be the post that gets me re-motivated to get on my bike again! :shock:

niblue

this might sound daft but if you can do 50 then you can do 100. Set aside a full day, take a mate with you and get on with it. You'll be tired at the end but Target achieved. Seriously, just go for it!

I did 105 miles over a weekend recently and arrived at the half-way point at about noon on the first day. If I hadn't had a hotel booked for the night I'd have probably just went for it and gone home. That was on a loaded tourer as well, given my road bike would have been perhaps 20lbs lighter then it'd have been easier.

Warwickshire Whizzer

Hmmm.

The Etape
La Marmotte
Enter a race

At the moment.

UncleFred

Short Term

Get Under 57 in a 25 (Currently 57:52)
Get Under 22 in a 10 (Currently 22.50)
Get Under 11 in a 5 (Currently 11.16)

Long Term

Cape Epic
BC Bike Race
La Haute Route
Marmotte
Trans Rockies (Again)
St Malo- Gibraltar

CiB

JOGLE
Any decent French mountain - up & down
See the TdF live over more than a single day
Get round to entering a TT
Get one or both of our boys into proper cycling, instead of or as well as football.
Ride t'tandem with OH, even if only for 50 yards before giving up.
Get weight to the next stone down, and keep it there.
New bike (using the n+1 rule)

Frank the tank

It would be nice to just get out on the bike, I seem to be constantly at work of late.

rubertoe

"(using the n+1 rule)"

I'm confused - anyone care to explain?

desweller

rubertoe wrote:

"(using the n+1 rule)"

I'm confused - anyone care to explain?

n+1 is the ideal number of bicycles a person should own, where 'n' is the number of bicycles they currently possess...