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Old 06-30-08, 11:16 PM
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Where Do You Stand on Your Goals???

Tomorrow is July 1st, so that marks the half way point for this year. I'm sure some of you may have made goals for yourself, so just wondering where you stand on those lofty goals you made?

This year, I didn't have any goals. No triple crown, no century a month goals ... just enjoying the ride. Sometimes, we lose site of that.
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Originally Posted by spingineer
Tomorrow is July 1st, so that marks the half way point for this year. I'm sure some of you may have made goals for yourself, so just wondering where you stand on those lofty goals you made?

This year, I didn't have any goals. No triple crown, no century a month goals ... just enjoying the ride. Sometimes, we lose site of that.
Actually being able to ride my bike was good

back to back centurys (100 miles on my Bday)
110 degree Double
500+ mile week
AidsLifeCycl ride
Organized Time Trial
4 Mountains in 4 days
5000 miles in 6 months
riding in a parade
Making the most friends I've ever made in my life!

Next:
Foxy fall or century on a one speed.
Make the most friends I've ever made in my life.
try to be as weird as possible!
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Way, way behind right now and my goals were modest.

Ride 100 miles/wk
Climb Diablo
Ride my first century
Ride a mteric with my son before he goes off to college

I'm not giving up though. There are 5 months left!
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My only thing left on the books is Seattle to Portland. I can't believe it's here already!!!

Personal goals remaining:
1. Do a BF Bay Area ride soon.
2. Ride to the top of Diablo for the first time EVER!
3. Get in 2,000 more non-trainer miles before the end of the year (1796 after STP )
4. Keep commuting by bike (33mi r/t) at least once a week until it becomes too chilly.
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Originally Posted by redspoke
My only thing left on the books is Seattle to Portland. I can't believe it's here already!!!

Personal goals remaining:
1. Do a BF Bay Area ride soon.
2. Ride to the top of Diablo for the first time EVER!
3. Get in 2,000 more non-trainer miles before the end of the year (1796 after STP )
4. Keep commuting by bike (33mi r/t) at least once a week until it becomes too chilly.
Make sure to let us know about the Diablo Virgin Sacrifice
I'm taking a friend of mine to the Hamilton sacrifice. Lived here all her life and never mounted Hamilton! I wanna watch that...does that sound funny?
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Training for the Death Ride was my big goal - training has gone well, event in a couple of weeks!

As part of the training I did a few new things:
Tour of the Unknown Coast (great ride, next year I'll bring a bike that can fit 25's or 28's)
Some of the climbs from the Terrible Two double

There are a couple of rides from the 2nd half of the year I'm not going to be able to do that I wanted to (family obligations):
Shasta Summit Century
Grizzly Century

I still have 2 organized centuries that I'm going to ride:
Crater Lake
Lighthouse

A friend is starting a century a month program, so I'm going to see if I can do that with her (at least for the rest of the year).

I'm thinking of hiring a coach/nutritionist - I'm frustrated by my inability to drop another 25 pounds and by the fact that I did not pick up the speed climbing that I expected to this year (gee, think they're related?).

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Pretty good, though I didn't go into the year having many goals.

I talked to a friend last summer/fall about getting back into cycling (saw his road bike in the guest room), and he mentioned the Death Ride to me. I thought it seemed like a stupid thing to do; in other words, just the thing to get me back into cycling.

Started working out on a stationary and lifting some weights about 5-6 days a week back in September. Put my name in the lottery for the DR in February. By March I had gotten into the ride and had already lost about 20lbs. Early April I bought an actual bike and started riding. Page Mill and Hamilton in my first couple of weeks, in May I got going a bit better and did my first couple of BF rides.

June started out well with Sequoia -- 144 miles and 10,500ft with the ride to and from home. Managed a bunch of rides up Hamilton and almost 55k feet on the month. Down about another 10lbs, so 30 total.

I think I'm pretty well prepared for the DR, at least as well as I'm gonna be. It's just one of those things you have to go out there and do to see if you really can, but fortunately I'm young and stupid, so I do dumb stuff and recover from it really quickly.

I don't really have any other goals on the year, but I'm already thinking triple crown next year. I've done a double century before (STP in 2003), so I know doubles are very do-able for me, especially if I'm actually in shape for it.

I'd also like to ride Crater Lake. I might do STP again next year too. Though if I'm shooting for triple crown, that'll be 4 doubles on the year!
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Old 07-01-08, 09:52 AM
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My goals were fairly simple.
- More miles than last year. Check.
- BF Rides. Only have done one...need to work on that one.

For remaining 6 months:
- DeathRide
- Santa Cruz Mountain Challenge
- Shasta Century
- Get back on the MTB

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Originally Posted by taxi777
Lived here all her life and never mounted Hamilton! I wanna watch that...does that sound funny?
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Originally Posted by reidconti
By March I had gotten into the ride and had already lost about 20lbs....Down about another 10lbs, so 30 total.

Reid, that's incredible. Congrats. I think I've lost a total of 15 lbs max in the last 2 years, and I just can't imagine losing anymore. Perhaps I need to get back into weights after the cardio/aerobic season is over.
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My goals for this year were simple.

Get back in shape and make as complete a recovery as possible from my broken leg. It's been 51 weeks.

I've dropped 20lbs since I started riding again. I'm lighter, and in better shape than I was last year before I got hurt. Most of my leg strength has returned. As of last night, I can run again (it takes a lot of leg strength to run). Next week, on the anniversary date, I'll be completing the last of my major goals relating to my leg: riding the trail on which I got hurt
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Originally Posted by 1jacktripper
Reid, that's incredible. Congrats. I think I've lost a total of 15 lbs max in the last 2 years, and I just can't imagine losing anymore. Perhaps I need to get back into weights after the cardio/aerobic season is over.
Thanks, it feels pretty good I had the weight to lose though. I've got a decent-sized frame, so it's fairly easy for me to pack on a bit extra. I'm about 5'10" and was around 215, now I've seen as low as 184. My lowest in modern times was when I was on my school's crew team about 5 years ago, I saw 177 or 178. But then again, that was after a whole year of 2-a-day practices, plus a week of intense 3-a-days. I am frankly surprised I got as low as I did now. Part of it is probably that I have less muscle than I did back in those days, because god knows my workout schedule is nothing like that. But I'm probably eating marginally better (and certainly LESS) than I did back then.

I'm mostly lifting upper body. Yeah, it won't make me any faster on the bike (might slow me down, unless that muscle consumes enough fat..) but I care more about being in overall good shape than I do about being fast on the bike. I'll never be a 150-lb speed demon anyway, and I'm not a racer. We do this for fun, right? Right??
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My goals for this year are way off, basically scratched. Now riding/racing for fitness this year instead of results as I'd hoped, planned & spent a lot of time getting ready for. Next year hopefully.

A few lessons learned:
-Don't get injured. Listen to your body, rest, rest, stretch, rest
-Leave enough time in the training schedule to accommodate an injury and still have peak season left for peaking
-Enjoy just being on a bike
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Originally Posted by taxi777
Make sure to let us know about the Diablo Virgin Sacrifice
I'm taking a friend of mine to the Hamilton sacrifice. Lived here all her life and never mounted Hamilton! I wanna watch that...does that sound funny?
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Goals...
5000 miles (4000 at this point in time)
Diablo for first time...accomplished last Tuesday, did south (1:10) and North ascents.
Race again...top ten every race thus far yahooooooo!
Loose weight, started at 207lbs, now 177(thank God).
Get back to cat 3 status to compete in Senior (45's) National Crits in 09...this is the tough one as I am not sure I want to work THAT hard...hehe, plus I am runnin out of time.
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Goals for first half of year: not much, other than deciding on goals for the rest of the year.

Goals for second half of year:

1. Doing my second full distance tri and trying not to look so bad out there;
2. Doing a half-distance tri with my buddy and thoroughly crash him as present for joining my age group;
3. Convince wife to do the Lighthouse Century.

I'm actually already looking forward to the next year. I would really like to give some serious thought to the Death Ride. It's almost like a rite of passage here at BF.
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Originally Posted by reidconti
We do this for fun, right? Right??
"Fun? I'm not doing this for fun. I'm doing this for the suffering!" Or did I just butcher that quote?
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I don't know, but as I was crawling up Mountain Charlie on Sequoia, I was thinking "man, this is really stretching my definition of 'fun'.."
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Originally Posted by reidconti
I don't know, but as I was crawling up Mountain Charlie on Sequoia, I was thinking "man, this is really stretching my definition of 'fun'.."
No, I was crawling up Mt. Charlie. You were probably walking.
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I'm out this year
Instead, I've doing a lot of bike tinkering, posing, spending a lot of time on various cycling forums, running, working, and hiking.
Sure, I still ride..
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I'm out this year
Instead, I've doing a lot of bike tinkering, posing, spending a lot of time on various cycling forums, running, working, and hiking.
Sure, I still ride..
Ah man, no fixie on the Grand Tour?
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My goals just involve losing weight and getting into some sort of shape other than round.

Over the last 2 1/2 months, I've dropped 20 pounds and ridden about 600 miles.
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Originally Posted by spingineer
No, I was crawling up Mt. Charlie. You were probably walking.
I saw as low as 2.5mph seated and 3.5mph standing.

I didn't think my computer could read as low as 2.5. Nor did I know that I was capable of maintaining balance at that speed. Hell I was popping wheelies without even trying.
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My goals were the bay area triple - diablo, hamilton and tamalpais. Check for hamilton, but diablo and tamalpais are still to be ridden.

I would also like to bag a couple of century rides before December 31.
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My goals for the year. Pretty lofty after taking it easy for the last few years.

1) California Triple Crown [done]
2) Climb To Kaiser [DNS]
3) Do a Double Century on Recumbent Trike [not done]
4) Do Mount Diablo on Recumbent Trike [done]
5) Do Mount Hamilton on Recumbent Trike [not done]
6) Do a Norcal Bike Forum Ride [soon]

It seems a lot of people have Diablo and Hamilton still on their to do list. We should get some more rides organized for that. I would be up for leading a Diablo ride from Danville

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