Originally Posted by CommuteCommando

Realistic goals are all good. I used to do the whole spread sheet thing. If you really know how to work the formulas, rather than just filling in boxes as some do* it's actually fun. Now with Strava, I no longer spread sheet my rides very much, same with diet tracking thanks to Training Peaks.

Last weekend I hit one om my 2014 goals of climbing a mile in a single ride (62 miles-5600 ft climbing)

In the last five years I have lost 100 lb,and my annual mileage has gone from about 1500 to over 4500. My weight loss goals are starting to get elusive as I hover on the border of Obese/Overweight. I am suffering from chronic plateaus.

*(Years ago I was teaching a basic computer literacy class in one of those for-profit diploma mils and had a lab exercise in Excel. The exercise was to make a checking account ledger with basic arithmetic formulas. I found one kid calculating the values with a pocket calculator and manually entering every value in the cells. One of many face palm moments I had there.)