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Starting 1/1/12 I will be officially retired so to keep my self active and on some form of schedule I am going to set a goal of an average of 100 miles per week but secretly shooting for 200. What kind of mileage goals are others setting?

teachme

400 miles per month is my New Year's resolution goal. Oh, and get off and stay off the alcohol completely.

woodway

I am finishing this year at just under 7,400 miles. My goal for 2012 is to crest 8,000 miles.

Wogster

i usually intend to beat the previous year, this year I am intentionally NOT setting a distance goal, I want to ride for the sake of fresh air and exercise, right now the idea is that I spend some time on the trainer, for the new year that will start at 40 minutes and work up to an hour, with an extended ride once a week working to two hours...

cccorlew

I just signed up for the Solvang Double century. That's a freakin' goal. I'm hoping it gets me motivated to seriously train and drop a few pounds.
I'm also doing Adventure Cycling's Cycle Washington in this summer.
My other goal is to ride Mt. Tam, the SF Bay Area mountain i haven't been up yet.

Rick@OCRR

Spring Solvang is one of the easier CA doubles Curtis (but you knew that), however, The Mt. Tam double is a great way to see Mt. Tam (and surrounding areas).

I've ridden that one twice and it was a challenge both times. Good luck with the Mt. Tam double!

Rick / OCRR

DGlenday

Congratulations! I'm as envious as hell.

That's the way I'm setting up 2012 - i.e. I'm not looking at miles per week so much as specific goals.

I plan to start randonneuring, and would like to get a "super randonee" medal in the next year or two by completing a 200 km, 300 km, 400 km and 600 km, all within the specified number of hours, all in the same year. I've also registered for a 24-hour marathon, and want to do a double-century - not yet sure which.

lhbernhardt

I won't be adding up all the odometer readings on my bikes until Dec 31, but so far I've got over 20,500 km on the fixie alone. PBP helped a lot, and I don't think I'll be able to exceed this until 2013, when I'm planning on doing London-Edinburgh-London (on the fixed gear of course!). In 2012, I'm planning on doing a California Triple Crown on the fixie (I likely won't include Alta Alpina). I was doing some recce this week while I'm in the SF Bay Area. Bagged Mt. Tam and Mt. Hamilton, I'm posting photos on another thread. The Mt. Tamalpais ride was just part of a 100-km excursion to check out Bolinas-Fairfax Rd and Ridgecrest Blvd, so I decided to throw in the climb to the East Peak because it was so close. But Mt. Hamilton got out of hand. After lunch at the summit (generously provided by Richard of the Valley Spokesmen), audacity got the better of me and I proceeded solo down the other side. This is a one-way 106-mile loop because you DO NOT want to turn around and go back up Mt. Hamilton from the uber-steep east side! Finished in the dark at about 6:15 pm. Good thing I had my lights with me, but Calaveras road in the dark was just unending! Reminded me of why I don't like riding at night in the brevets...

Condorita

Keep It Simple: Ride. Whenever and wherever. As much as possible.

veloronfla

Welcome to retirement (I retired in 2007). Find 2 - 4 events that you'd like to do in 2012 and "train" for them. Could be anything from a century to an organized "tour" (RAGBRAI, BRAG, BIKE FLORIDA, etc.) or a weekend/holiday event (here in Florida we have The Tour Of Sebring and Mt. Dora weekends) where you stay in one town and do day rides. If you haven't already, hook up with a local club - they usually have the inside info on events and riding with others is more fun than riding solo.

BigBlueToe

Northwest Washington is where I'm from, and I still get up thee almost every summer. I've ridden almost all of the places you'll go on Cycle Washington. It should be beautiful! Cross your fingers for no rain. I've been very lucky cycling in the summer months up there - only 4 or 5 days of rain in many different tours. Enjoy!

John_V 

Congratulations on your retirement. I think that you will find yourself riding more than what you are setting as a goal since you now have plenty of time to ride. I find it more of a priority issue than anything else. You would be surprised just how much time you have if you set your priorities. I know that for me, things that seemed important when I was working, just don't seem to matter anymore.

I retired on October 28th of this year. In the month of November, I went from my normal 15-20 mile a day, after work rides to 30 miles a day. I also increased my weekend rides from 40+ to 50+ miles. Since I got the hybrid in July of 2010, and the road bike in Nov. of 2010, I put over 5,000 miles between the two of them.

It was great until Nov. 26th, when I collided with my wife and landed on my back. I've been on the bike once since then doing a 6.25 mile slow ride around the neighborhood this past Monday. I've been trying to ride again, but I'm a bit gun shy about re-injuring myself if my back is bothering me even a little bit. I'm hoping that my back will heal soon as I have an MS 150 coming up in March and I really need to get back into the swing of things. I was wanting to get the road bike on the trainer this week so that if my back started bothering me, I didn't have to get off and walk the bike back to the truck. The neighborhood ride was done on the hybrid where I sit up more, so maybe I'll try this afternoon for another neighborhood ride.

Since you are in West Central Florida, let me know if you want to do the MS 150. It's in your area and is a really great ride.

PaulH

My office has moved, so, making usual assumptions regarding holidays and vacations, I should ride 6,000 miles this year, up from 4,800 in previous years.

Paul

stonefree

For over 60 years old, 300 quality scenic fun miles a month with some upper body exercise is fine by me. Any more than that would be pushing my luck. A lot of you old hotshots will find this out after you break something and I don't mean your bike. I've got about twenty more years to go and I want to do it standing up and above ground.

Barrettscv 

My time will be split between my home in Chicago and an office I'm helping to open in Twinsburg, Ohio. I also plan to visit my wife's family in Italy for vacation in August or September. I'm going to keep a bike or two in each location. Cycling in Chicago is familiar and I have several friends and groups that I ride with. Twinsburg is near the Cuyahoga National Park and offers hundreds of miles of first class cycling. Cycling in Italy will be excellent, if I can manage the climbs.

I'd like to complete a few short tours. I'd also like to attend a gravel-road century.

My normal annual cycling mileage has been in the 4000 to 5000 mile/year range over the last several years. I should be able to manage that again.

I'd like to complete several organized century or longer rides in 2012. I'll also do an independent century ride monthly, starting in March.

qcpmsame 

My 2012 goals are to ride with regularity (75-100 MPW) and to keep my diet in good shape, especially keeping soda pops out of my hands totally. I want to make sure I keep my bicycle rider's road diary up to date daily, after each time I ride, and to record my weight and heart rates both resting and 3/4 effort. Just an increment in self improvement for this old guy that is loving riding and my life.

Bill

Looigi

For routine weeks, I typically do 100-120 miles. If I try to push for more than that I find I get burnt out and stop enjoying it. That's just me, of course and YMMV. I usually do a couple of tours or events where I'll rack up 300-400+ miles in a week and wind up totaling ~5000/year. I supplement that with spinning classes when I don't have the time, or the weather isn't conducive.

DEK

I had a 2011 goal of 3,000 miles and made it (3,500+). For 2012, I'm shooting for 4,000+ and barring exceptional circumstances, I see no reason why I won't make it.

Also trying to decide on doing more group rides. I did a couple this year and had a good time on 1 but not so good on the 2nd.

Philipaparker

Hey I am still working and commuting 24 miles a day round trip. That's about 100 miles a week. I try to do one long ride on the weekends and 3 or 4 Century rides a year. At 61 I feel my body getting weaker and am going back to body building a few times a week. Have a great 2012.

Shifty

I'm setting a goal of 7000 for the year, which is my usual goal. I'm also planning many event rides to add the fun to those miles, Skinny Tire Festival in Moab in March, Montana Bicycle Ride in August and Cycle Oregon in September. I'm also planning a week trip to ride in Northern California in April or May.

rck

My only goal-to be goalless! That, of course, won't happen. So my back-up plan aims for 2-2,500 miles, at least 1 english century, doing the 150k rte of the Dairyland Dare, and riding a metric century on my 62nd b-day! All else is superfluous.

Retro Grouch 

That part's simple. I've got 23 1/2 years so I know how to do it. Don't drink today, post back tomorrow, and I'll tell you what to do tomorrow.

VNA

Keep breathing hopefully heavily often on two wheels and other places!

rdtompki

Still working full-time but out of my home office. I'd like to ride 60 miles/week on the tandem and 40/week on my new single, but business travel can kill ones weekly average. Still, job is mostly very good so I think I'll work a few more years before I retire. I'd also like to try a 200K on the single if I can get my rear end in shape.

bjjoondo 

Simple, to get this left knee back to normal so I can get in my 100 to 150 miles a week! On the 1st. of Dec. I woke up and my left knee was in "SERIOUS" pain and wouldn't fully extend! After a ER vist and a Othro Doc. vist, I've been told I have "Pseudogout", a type of arthritis that, MIMICS" GOUT. Although it has NOTHING to do with Uric Acid levels or what you eat. It's cause by a "build up" of "Calcium Pro-Phosphate Crystals" in a joint, usually in a larger joint but I've got it in both the left knee and the left "second" toe (not the big toe). For 3 weeks I could hardly get out of bed to go to the bathroom!! Then 4 more weeks with a "cane" now I'm walking semi-normally and I finally got in a 14 mile ride to the LBS and back, JUST before the big snow fall came in here in So. Colorado.

So I got "ONE" ride in the whole month of December, hope to try for a ride this weekend with the wife. It's still "VERY" sore and all they can give me for it is, indothemyicne, a anti-infalmatory drug. It will JUST give me enough movement to spin the pedals SLOWLY at the moment. Just want it to heal up so I can get back on the bike! We are car-free and this has REALLY put a crimp in my future "biking" plans. 3000+ miles in 2011, who knows in 2012, RATS!