Originally Posted by BengeBoy

One of several, still not nailed down to specifics.

The short story is that I'm average something over 5,600 miles a year since my return to cycling in 2007. One of my initial goals was to ride a century -- last year that morphed to "ride a century on any day." I'm pretty comfortable with doing some very challenging centuries on practically any day of the year right now (as long as the weather is somewhat reasonable) but I'm likely riding *more* miles than I need to in order to be century-ready.

My goals for 2011 might be something like:

- fewer cycling miles over all but still enough to be "century-ready"
- more time hiking w/my son, some weight lifting
- maintain goal of commuting to work 120x per year on the bike (I have found this is a *great* way to pace my riding through the year and keep my on the bike in bad weather)
- lose some weight !


I think this *might* be the year that I try hard to get more organized with my riding and ride *fewer* miles but with a little more purpose and discipline. My recent purchase of a heart rate monitor has demonstrated to me that I'm not working as hard as I thought I was. I think I could still generate lots of smiles with fewer miles and still be plenty fit. And I think I would trade off some solo bike rides for some other outdoor activities -- especially more hiking and backpacking in the summer. My son did some more cycling w/me the past year, I think I owe him some more weekend hikes.