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Old 12-12-10, 12:59 AM
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Forget January 01, 2011...

I'm setting goals now with at least a couple of outrageous goals.
  • Lose 30-40lbs (final weight will depend on what suits me best at 5'9".
    I WON'T drop below 180, that's for sure. Below that is not my personal ideal weight).
  • Set up a "riding" soundtrack to ride to.
  • Do my 1st Century (outrageous for me).
  • Improve significantly with me 2nd Century.
  • 500 miles of riding a month (once we get past winter's un-rideable months).
  • 1 Week Cycling Related Vacation (either Road or MTB).
  • Build an Über Bike (full plastic sensation in @ low 15lb range).
  • Increase my average mph to high teens.
  • Set-up a home shop.
  • Get fully geared up for cycling.
  • Become a competitive amateur rider.
  • Enter and complete a Road Race.
  • Develop healthy eating habits.
  • Ride Broadway (NYC) from the north to the south non-stop as fast as I can.
    (Okay, maybe just one stop for a pair of Papaya Gray's Hot Dogs! ).
  • Take advantage of every good riding day I can.


Pretty boring for the most part, but I had to express it somewhere so that it's
out there floating around for me to return to and I'm not much of a blogger.
This is stuff I wanted to do this past year, but big career changes put a halt to that.

Any advice is greatly appreciated and flaming will be dealt with accordingly!


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nice list, losing weight and increasing speed will develop together.

As for riding sound tracks, I recomend Thousand Foot Krutch, Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, and Cake - The Distance for starters, and Powerman 5000 if you're into hardcore stuff.
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Originally Posted by awesomejack
nice list, losing weight and increasing speed will develop together.

As for riding sound tracks, I recomend Thousand Foot Krutch, Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, and Cake - The Distance for starters, and Powerman 5000 if you're into hardcore stuff.
Thanks. So far, I'm going to have a mix of some old skool rap (Know The Ledge/Follow The Leader by Eric B. & Rakim, some Gangstar, Ice Cube's Wicked, Dre's Natural Born Killer, LL's Mama Said Knock You Out, Kool Moe Dee's I Go To Work, Big Daddy Kane's I Get The Job Done, Beatnuts, Big Pun, NORE, Diplomats and various hard playing, mid-high tempo songs with a nice steady beat as well as a whole lot of Freestyle music and definitely gotta have my Zeppelin, Hendrix, Stones, Guns & Roses, Wheezer, Lincoln Park and such AND mucho Salsa).

The year before last when I first began riding I dropped from 248 to 198. Now, I'm at 220.
On flats, I'm good for high teens, but I have no ideal how long I can keep that speed
consistently because I run out of road where I live so I generally average 16mph on
my local loops of 3 miles going up hill and 3 miles down coming back.

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Originally Posted by 2ndGen
I'm setting goals now with at least a couple of outrageous goals.
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[LIST][*]Lose 30-40lbs (final weight will depend on what suits me best at 5'9".
I WON'T drop below 180, that's for sure. Below that is not my personal ideal weight).
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Set up a "riding" soundtrack to ride to.
aim high.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Do my 1st Century (outrageous for me).
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Improve significantly with me 2nd Century.
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]500 miles of riding a month (once we get passed winter's un-rideable months).
"passed?"

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]1 Week Cycling Related Vacation (either Road or MTB).
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Build an Über Bike (full plastic sensation in @ low 15lb range).
i have no idea what this means.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Increase my average mph to high teens.
irrelevant.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Set-up a home shop.
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Get fully geared up for cycling.
it's not about the gear.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Become a competitive amateur rider.
on 500 miles a month?

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Enter and complete a Road Race.
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Develop healthy eating habits.
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*]Ride Broadway (NYC) from the north to the south non-stop as fast as I can.
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
(Okay, maybe just one stop for a pair of Papaya Gray's Hot Dogs! ).
please reread the devlop healthy eating habit goal, not to mention the weight loss goal.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
[*] Take advantage of every good riding day I can.
ok.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
Pretty boring for the most part, but I had to express it somewhere so that it's
out there floating around for me to return to and
I'm not much of a blogger.
you don't say.

Originally Posted by 2ndGen
This is stuff I wanted to do this past year, but big career changes put a halt to that.

Any advice is greatly appreciated and
flaming will be dealt with accordingly!
bring it.
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"passed?"

Roger that..."past".


i have no idea what this means.

Carbon bike with best components I can afford.


it's not about the gear.

I know...but it's so much better when I ride with proper cycling attire and accessories.


on 500 miles a month?

("become" is in that sentence...500 wasn't a limit)


you don't say.

Not "on" an actual blog.
(forums VS blogs)


bring it.


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Originally Posted by 2ndGen
Thanks. So far, I'm going to have a mix of some old skool rap (Know The Ledge/Follow The Leader by Eric B. & Rakim, some Gangstar, Ice Cube's Wicked, Dre's Natural Born Killer, LL's Mama Said Knock You Out, Kool Moe Dee's I Go To Work, Big Daddy Kane's I Get The Job Done, Beatnuts, Big Pun, NORE, Diplomats and various hard playing, mid-high tempo songs with a nice steady beat as well as a whole lot of Freestyle music and definitely gotta have my Zeppelin, Hendrix, Stones, Guns & Roses, Wheezer, Lincoln Park and such AND mucho Salsa).
Cool - I got some ideas from there as well, thanks!
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I used cyling to help me loose 50 pounds two years ago. My lesson learned, focus more on intensity than miles. I didn't have a lot of extra time but there are some pretty good hills in my neighborhhod. Adding two or three loops of these hills to my regular riding didn't take a lot of extra time, nor add significant miles (maybe 5 or 6 miles per ride) but made a huge difference both in weight loss and in my ability to drop friends on weekend rides who used to drop me. The impact on stamina was astonishingly quick, even before dropping significant weight so that just motivated me to keep it up. From a conditioing stand point I was getting twice the benefit because I became stronger for the hills irrespective of weight and lost weight pretty fast.

edited to add; If relevant to OP, I am 6ft tall, went from 245 to 195 in a little over 3 months. Besides cycling, I kept my daily calorie intake to under 2300 calories a day. I no longer count calories but have kept up my hill riding and 2 yrs later am still at 195.

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What are these "winter's un-rideable months" you speak of?
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Originally Posted by DOS
I used cyling to help me loose 50 pounds two years ago. My lesson learned, focus more on duration and intensity than miles.
fixed.
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Originally Posted by 2ndGen
botto

"passed?"

Roger that..."past".


i have no idea what this means.

Carbon bike with best components I can afford.


it's not about the gear.

I know...but it's so much better when I ride with proper cycling attire and accessories.


on 500 miles a month?

("become" is in that sentence...500 wasn't a limit)


you don't say.

Not "on" an actual blog.
(forums VS blogs)


bring it.


if you don't like getting called out on noob-ness, why post these threads?
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Originally Posted by botto
fixed.
good fix
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Originally Posted by Grumpy McTrumpy
if you don't like getting called out on noob-ness, why post these threads?
Is Bike forums not the place for someone looking for support as he/she seeks to accomplish personal goals? What's the opposite of noob; jaded perhaps?
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[QUOTE=

"passed?"

.[/QUOTE]

Sigh, another grammarian in the BF crowd. We knew what he meant.

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Originally Posted by DOS
Sigh, another grammerian in the BF crowd. We knew what he meant.
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Cool - I got some ideas from there as well, thanks!

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Originally Posted by DOS
Is Bike forums not the place for someone looking for support as he/she seeks to accomplish personal goals? What's the opposite of noob; jaded perhaps?
the opposite of noob in this case is someone who has paid enough attention to what the experienced folks have said so as to not take offense at every little thing.

you might learn something from some of the more "jaded" writers here. Some of them have been doing the bike thing for a very long time.
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Originally Posted by Grumpy McTrumpy
if you don't like getting called out on noob-ness, why post these threads?
Read OP. The reason I posted this particular thread is noted in it.
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Originally Posted by 2ndGen
Read OP. The reason I posted this particular thread is noted in it.
and you think you are getting "flamed"?
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Originally Posted by achoo
What are these "winter's un-rideable months" you speak of?
Where I live, those slushy/snow covered road salt infested days when I can't ride my road bike.
We can have weeks here where the roads are un-rideable.

Originally Posted by DOS
I used cyling to help me loose 50 pounds two years ago...

edited to add; If relevant to OP, I am 6ft tall, went from 245 to 195 in a little over 3 months. Besides cycling, I kept my daily calorie intake to under 2300 calories a day. I no longer count calories but have kept up my hill riding and 2 yrs later am still at 195.
Don't remember if I mentioned it, I was 248 @ 5'9" myself and dropped to about 200 myself in a few months on a MTB.
Back then however, I was Roofing, so that helped me get down really quick along with the biking.


Going to buy a trainer on Wednesday to keep working out on the days that I can't ride.

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and you think you are getting "flamed"?
No.

But I am talking too much about "the thread" instead of the "topic" right now with you.
(I'd rather talk about the topic of the thread now)

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I lived where you live for 15 years.

there are no unrideable months.

even here it's possible to get in some outdoor riding in the winter if you work a bit at it.
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[QUOTE=Grumpy McTrumpy;11924151]the opposite of noob in this case is someone who has paid enough attention to what the experienced folks have said so as to not take offense at every little thing.

you might learn something from some of the more "jaded" writers here. Some of them have been doing the bike thing for a very long time.[/QUOTE

No offense taken, but nothing learned either. When advise is offered, lots is learned, I am not seeing advice in your post, just criticism, which is not the same thing. But I do see that your are in Binghamton. Having spent 4 years there myself, I understand why you might be grumpy.
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selective attention

confirmation bias
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[QUOTE=DOS;11924232]
Originally Posted by Grumpy McTrumpy
the opposite of noob in this case is someone who has paid enough attention to what the experienced folks have said so as to not take offense at every little thing.

you might learn something from some of the more "jaded" writers here. Some of them have been doing the bike thing for a very long time.[/QUOTE

No offense taken, but nothing learned either. When advise is offered, lots is learned, I am not seeing advice in your post, just criticism, which is not the same thing. But I do see that your are in Binghamton. Having spent 4 years there myself, I understand why you might be grumpy.


And now, for a commercial (thread tension) break!

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I have your emoticons turned off.

if you put away the sensitivity I'm sure you'll find the help you are looking for, even in the posts where you see only criticism. but let me make it easy for you.

I think your excitement is a great thing. I don't know why you are setting a lower limit of 180, which seems rather high for 5'9, but whatever.

I think it's pointless to become concerned with expensive bikes and all that stuff now.

I think it's better to find ways of learning to ride more, and in more conditions, so that you can maintain training throughout the year.

Having all these goals is good, but set some priorities.

And please learn to look at what many of us say with humor, as it is intended. Yes, really.
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Originally Posted by 2ndGen
I'm setting goals now with at least a couple of outrageous goals.
  • Lose 30-40lbs (final weight will depend on what suits me best at 5'9".
    I WON'T drop below 180, that's for sure. Below that is not my personal ideal weight). Never say never.
  • Set up a "riding" soundtrack to ride to. try riding without music, it isn't bad at all especially in NYC where what you're able to hear around you is just as important as what you see
  • Do my 1st Century (outrageous for me). once you can ride 50 miles at a good clip 100 won't seem so daunting.
  • Improve significantly with me 2nd Century. see above
  • 500 miles of riding a month (once we get past winter's un-rideable months). No such thing unless we're buried in snow the entire winter
  • 1 Week Cycling Related Vacation (either Road or MTB). good idea
  • Build an Über Bike (full plastic sensation in @ low 15lb range).You're better served dropping an extra 15lbs than getting a lighter bike
  • Increase my average mph to high teens. This can be very misleading.
  • Set-up a home shop. Not necessary for most repairs. I built up my bike without a home shop, but if go for it if that's what you want
  • Get fully geared up for cycling.good gear for the winter helps, for the summer not so much
  • Become a competitive amateur rider.
  • Enter and complete a Road Race.
  • Develop healthy eating habits.
  • Ride Broadway (NYC) from the north to the south non-stop as fast as I can.
    (Okay, maybe just one stop for a pair of Papaya Gray's Hot Dogs! ). while fun it's a lot of stop and go if you're looking to get a nice ride in
  • Take advantage of every good riding day I can.yep


Pretty boring for the most part, but I had to express it somewhere so that it's
out there floating around for me to return to and I'm not much of a blogger.
This is stuff I wanted to do this past year, but big career changes put a halt to that.

Any advice is greatly appreciated and flaming will be dealt with accordingly!

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