New Year's Resolutions

warreng

I don't normally make resolutions on the grounds I get to about the 7th January before I fail miserably but this year I thought I'd set some targets to aim for

1. 5,000 miles on the bike
2. 500 miles running
3. Give SW Trains as little money as possible
4. Pay less attention to the beer thread and cut down alcohol consumption
5. 8 separate 100 mile rides
6. Take bike on the summer holiday and do Ventoux again

Anyone got anything specific they are trying to aim for (any good ones I'll pinch, obviously)?

rick_chasey

6,000 km under the belt by end of year

This was last year's but was hampered by 3 months in NYC in the summer.

Also need to beat the boss at the Flanders sportive.

Wheelspinner

Rick Chasey wrote:

Also need to beat the boss at the Flanders sportive.

Is that a good career move??

Wheelspinner

1. Ride my bike(s) again. Not been on one in 5 months. #missingitbadly.
2. See 1.

veronese68

I resolved not to make any resolutions. I appear to have failed.

roger_merriman

My wishes are to get back on the bike as I get better, have a new bike waiting apart from anything else!

in terms of crossing T's i'm cabled up with a halt at the moment, which required a little shaving, and now itches...

meth_tical

I plan on doing at least 8000 miles (roughly 5500 of them are on my commute), cycling holiday up to and across Scotland and the western Isles and last but not least A few 100 milers (yet to do one).

msmancunia

roger merriman wrote:

My wishes are to get back on the bike as I get better, have a new bike waiting apart from anything else!

in terms of crossing T's i'm cabled up with a halt at the moment, which required a little shaving, and now itches...

Roger, am hoping this is a picture of your chest and not your mankini line?!

Mine are:
Do my physio exercises
Ride 3,000 miles
Do my physio exercises
Cut down on the chocolate
Do my physio exercises
Finish renovating my inherited house and get it on the market
Do my physio exercises
Shift the broken wrist induced weight gain
Do my physio exercises
Stop reading the Daily Mail website cos it's dirty.
Do my physio exercises

dhope

1. Race a bit.
2. Learn how to ride a bike again, having not been on one for a few months. Maybe do this before 1.
3. Run a bit more - though this is down to the missus doing the marathon and me tagging along a bit on training for moral support. Might interfere with 1 and 2.
4. New job. Might interfere with 2 and 3.
5. Sort out the house. Reliant on 4.
6. Maybe start a MSc. Probably also reliant on 4 but might interfere with it too.

So that's simple then.

Gallywomack

The dreaded post-Christmas weigh-in was yesterday: 120 kilos. Haven't been that much in about 2 years. So it's fairly straightforward, lose about 4 stone. Also, try to gain some vestige of fitness, the two should go hand in hand (in the magical gumdrop world where this actually happens, that is)

roger_merriman

msmancunia wrote:

roger merriman wrote:

My wishes are to get back on the bike as I get better, have a new bike waiting apart from anything else!

in terms of crossing T's i'm cabled up with a halt at the moment, which required a little shaving, and now itches...

Roger, am hoping this is a picture of your chest and not your mankini line?!

Mine are:
Do my physio exercises
Ride 3,000 miles
Do my physio exercises
Cut down on the chocolate
Do my physio exercises
Finish renovating my inherited house and get it on the market
Do my physio exercises
Shift the broken wrist induced weight gain
Do my physio exercises
Stop reading the Daily Mail website cos it's dirty.
Do my physio exercises

Ha yes chest not makini line, though last work holiday supporting someone scuba diving, one of the guys wore one on the last day, 6ft and best part of 20st, the image is seared in to my brain!

Do the physio, I stopped due to my head and recovery of, and my wrist is quite painful. Silly boy etc.

iPete

Drink more coffee
Drink more alcohol
Put on some weight
Race to Cat 3
Sub 6 up Box Hill
Build the pink/grey fixie
Ride Alp D'Huez
Take any kind of vehicle around the Nurburging
Ride less miles

Don't hate me

ugo.santalucia

1) Give up alcohol completely (work in progress, 3 weeks in now)... 8)

2) Become semi-vegetarian (as above... eggs OK, semi milk OK, sustainable fish and seafood OK... white meat maybe once every other week, red meat banned, cheese banned, butter banned)

3) Cut the bike "upgrades" bill (surprisingly the hardest to achieve)

in essence, Nothing major... :shock:

roger_merriman

ugo.santalucia wrote:

1) Give up alcohol completely (work in progress, 3 weeks in now)... 8)

2) Become semi-vegetarian (as above... eggs OK, semi milk OK, sustainable fish and seafood OK... white meat maybe once every other week, red meat banned, cheese banned, butter banned)

3) Cut the bike "upgrades" bill (surprisingly the hardest to achieve)

in essence, Nothing major... :shock:

well for my self 1) I've not had any booze since 1st of December haven't felt like a drink, partly knock on head, partly I hardly drink any way.

2) my wife is a Vegetarian so my diet has been very low meat for many years.

3) ah now i've been spending since I haven't been able to ride!

rubertoe

ugo.santalucia wrote:

1) Give up alcohol completely (work in progress, 3 weeks in now)... 8)
2) Become semi-vegetarian (as above... eggs OK, semi milk OK, sustainable fish and seafood OK... white meat maybe once every other week, red meat banned, cheese banned, butter banned)

3) Cut the bike "upgrades" bill (surprisingly the hardest to achieve)

in essence, Nothing major... :shock:

1. Veronese and ITB will be along to set you straight...

2. I like Cheese to much, other bits and peices i can either take or leave.

3. Upgrades will be minimal > Baby due in less than 28 days, I will however be getting a "summer" bike although this will be 2nd hand I'd imagine.

ugo.santalucia

rubertoe wrote:

ugo.santalucia wrote:

1) Give up alcohol completely (work in progress, 3 weeks in now)... 8)
2) Become semi-vegetarian (as above... eggs OK, semi milk OK, sustainable fish and seafood OK... white meat maybe once every other week, red meat banned, cheese banned, butter banned)

3) Cut the bike "upgrades" bill (surprisingly the hardest to achieve)

in essence, Nothing major... :shock:

1. Veronese and ITB will be along to set you straight...

2. I like Cheese to much, other bits and peices i can either take or leave.

3. Upgrades will be minimal > Baby due in less than 28 days, I will however be getting a "summer" bike although this will be 2nd hand I'd imagine.

Giving up alcohol is surprisingly easy... I was fed up of it anyway... bad sleep, mild or less mild hangovers....
Cheese and red meat are the root to all western diet evil... sold to us with the false banner that they're good for calcium and iron, when in fact they do far more bad than good and there are plenty of healthy sources of Ca and Fe.
Sugar is the other enemy, will give a try to cut that one too.

It's amazing how we have 35 different cuts of beef but we seem to refer as beans as one single entity, when in fact there are far more beans than cuts of beef... says a lot about western meat hangover...

tilt

ugo.santalucia wrote:

rubertoe wrote:

ugo.santalucia wrote:

1) Give up alcohol completely (work in progress, 3 weeks in now)... 8)
2) Become semi-vegetarian (as above... eggs OK, semi milk OK, sustainable fish and seafood OK... white meat maybe once every other week, red meat banned, cheese banned, butter banned)

3) Cut the bike "upgrades" bill (surprisingly the hardest to achieve)

in essence, Nothing major... :shock:

1. Veronese and ITB will be along to set you straight...

2. I like Cheese to much, other bits and peices i can either take or leave.

3. Upgrades will be minimal > Baby due in less than 28 days, I will however be getting a "summer" bike although this will be 2nd hand I'd imagine.

Giving up alcohol is surprisingly easy... I was fed up of it anyway... bad sleep, mild or less mild hangovers....
Cheese and red meat are the root to all western diet evil... sold to us with the false banner that they're good for calcium and iron, when in fact they do far more bad than good and there are plenty of healthy sources of Ca and Fe.
Sugar is the other enemy, will give a try to cut that one too.

It's amazing how we have 35 different cuts of beef but we seem to refer as beans as one single entity, when in fact there are far more beans than cuts of beef... says a lot about western meat hangover...

Sounds similar to some of mine - I have decreased my meat consumption a lot over the past year or so but would like to push this a bit more in 2014. Also planning on giving up booze for three months (then see how it goes).

Out of interest, why no butter though?

bobtbuilder

1) Ride 5000 miles this year

2) Ride the Stelvio in August

3) Don't have an operation (had at least one in each of the last 5 years), which will help me achieve #1

rubertoe

There was interesting discussion about booze and dry-athlon on R5L last night.

Its amazing how many people think that binging and then giving up is ok - when its just a binging/breaking cycle. I have cut right back on my own consumption BTW - from every friday and sat, to 3-4 drinks in total since 1 November 2013. I doubt i'll ever go back to drinking how I did.

I also eat alot more fish than i used to, but cheese will always be a weakness and I love a roast beef and a bacon sandwich so i would never be able to give those up.

Gallywomack

Yeah, something about this dry-athlon doesn't sit right with me, does seem a bit of an implicit 'it's fine to drink heavily the rest of the time' message.

I'm trying to address my own alcohol consumption going back to before this NY - my office has a heavy drinking culture and in the run-up to Xmas I had a couple of episodes where I got so p*ssed I couldn't get up for work the next day, which is of course really bad in itself, but also thoroughly inappropriate for a father with a young kid. I'm basically fed up with going out on the p*ss - I can't handle the hangovers any more and I can Ill afford to spunk the money. Most importantly of all, my wife is fed up to the back teeth with it/me. So I'm not giving up booze completely - I like alcoholic drinks and there is no reason not to enjoy drinking them for their own sake from time to time - but I am giving up nights on the p*ss and, hopefully, getting drunk full stop. My own parents drank rarely and never get drunk, which is something I'd like to emulate.

asprilla

Haven't drunk much in the last 12 months as the Mrs pregnancy would have meant drinking alone and then waking up at all hours once the baby arrived curbed my desire to drink.

As a result my main goal this year is to make an impact on this stash;

ugo.santalucia

tilt wrote:

Out of interest, why no butter though?

I like butter, full of saturated fat though... same as cheese... they used to blame cholesterol ingestion, but it appears saturated fat is responsible for turning cholesterol into the LDL form which is the nasty one... cholesterol alone, as in eggs or chicken breast, is pretty harmless

rjsterry

All this disavowing this, that and the other seems a bit puritanical to me, and look where they ended up. What ever happened to a little moderation?

dazzTurning

I don't do New Years resolutions. My philosophy is that if you want to change, you will change, no matter what the calendar says!

dazzTurning

Asprilla wrote:

Haven't drunk much in the last 12 months as the Mrs pregnancy would have meant drinking alone and then waking up at all hours once the baby arrived curbed my desire to drink.

As a result my main goal this year is to make an impact on this stash;

And there was me thinking "..To do more ironing.." ;-)