[Closed] Half way! Hows everyone going on their 2018 riding targets

Ambitions for the year shot to hell after breaking my collarbone, but making the best of a bad situation and getting some quality turbo training done in preparation for the CX season.

All this year's targets are now next year's targets, another year's prep at least!

Badly. Set myself a 5000km target and only at 900km.

Ive stopped eating carbs so I’ve been doing short and steep rides, so I’m not unhappy with the riding. I just wish I’d done a bit more.

100km Sportive in 3 weeks so I’ll have to start upping the distance.

2500 miles on my new hip since 1st of jan.

so bloody fantastic so far this year.

2500 miles on my new hip since 1st of jan.

so bloody fantastic so far this year.

Brilliant Tony! 🙂 I take it that the post op bruising and soreness has subsided?

Mileage targets? Pffft, how yawnage.

I'm a bit behind schedule on my target, still hopefully of win of an EWS round by end of year. Although I need to get into one first.

So far so good:

Target of 4000miles (mix of MTB, Gravel and Road)

Currently at 2257miles (according to Strava it’s 263miles ahead of pace)

That includes 2 weeks off due to illness earlier in the year.

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My main event is in a few weeks, so I’m in my final training block.  One more week of suffering, then off to Fance to ride 330km, 8,000m of climbing in a day.  Not sure what I was thinking entering the Tour du Mont Blanc.

stats so far, mainly road:

4,616km

61,933m climbing

Better than I thought so far 2800 miles but very little time on the mtb so far which I must change

Bob, all good now mate. only pain is if i sit too long at work station,.

tried a weekends mountain biking in april, and it didnt feel right, so been doing a lot of mixed terrain riding, tracks, path and such local, feels a lot better.

and last weekend, managed a 66 mile ride back from manchester on my new bike. pretty much all offroad (canals).

so awesome really

The last three years I've done over 10,000km each year. This year my targets have been different. For each month I'm aiming to do:

1. A metric century
2. A bivvy
3. The Strava monthly climbing challenge

On target so far 🙂

been avoiding the climbing stats, in 2016 I got every strava climbing challenge and some of them in the first week due to living on the side of a mountain, now my commute has bridges down as the significant climbs

I set myself a 1500 mile goal this year after not riding for 5 years. I am on 616 so far so 84 miles behind. Should still be achievable.

i entered the climbing challenge on strava too.  managed it with a day to go.

good motivation i reckon. i like it.

Blimey you guys are serious,  my challenge for the rest of the year is getting out on the bike more than once a week.

So-so I’m on 533km for the year.

Last year I did 1000km, like every year for years, I don’t know why, but whatever I do I always end up on 1000km.

This year I wanted 1200km - I can’t really ride any more than I do already, but when I do ride I can ride further, so I’ve been doing that, but still here I am barely over 50% at the half way mark...

Last year I didn’t ride at all in August for various reasons, so I’m hoping for a summer surge.

Blimey you guys are serious,

For me it's just a way of motivating me to get out a bit further and do a bit more

No real target, generally just trying to ride as much as possible, which is going ok so far, mix of road & mtb. Particularly the elevation as I live in flat Leicester.

Distance: 5,879km
Elev. Gain: 89,558m

Not great.   Injury limited my riding at start of this year. However the same injury also limited my riding at the end of last year, so I reckon on balance I'll at least equal last years mileage !

Shred, that TdMB looks awesome, what sort of pace do you need to average to make the cut offs?

Will add to the bucket list after the Mallorca 312, and the tour of Norway, and the GR54...

shit start to the year for me - surgical wound not healing, poorly parents, some other shit

May & June, though, I've had 2 of my biggest ever months and my year so far has a bit over 1,500 miles and I've started commuting on the bike now.  22 miles on 2-3 days every week

... pretty much all road so far though

Reckon I'll get to 4,000 with maybe 300 on the mtb/cross

Had no targets, other to ride a fair bit before junior ned arrived. Planned to ride today. Didn't  In a hammock with junior, a whisky and a book. Happy with the way things have turned out!

Target of year, still to be able to ride (going to be my target for a few years I hope). So far so good!

Target is 3,000 miles in offroad rides - currently at 1800 or so, so on track, averaging 100 a week for quite a while now.

Start is 5am.

First cut off is 10am at 110km, so quite tight, but quite a lot of descending to that point.  If you get there before 10:30, so get routed around a climb and can continue, else return to start.

Then 2200 cut off at 275km, and 2230 at the top of the Roselend at 296.5.

After missing out on 4 months riding last year to a spilt kidney, this years traget was just to get back on the bike and enjoy it again, and that’s going great 👍👍

Set myself 2000miles  for the 1/7  and now at 1220 and thats with all the snow and crap we have had up in the Peaks  ..well on target

Due to having a young family and being time priority I set myself a modest target of minimum 100 miles a month. Currently on 1137, road miles will tail off a bit now I've done the RttS. So I guess revised target should be 1800 miles this year.

No targets just trying to get out more ! 🙂

Targets ?

Nope ..I ride for fun with mates .. not for the sake of having to ride ..

I haven't had a bad ride yet .

Pretty much didn't ride last year, so set a target of 2,000 km for the year. Didn't get the new fat bike until May, so currently 263 km behind pace, according to Strava. Managed just over 500 km last month though, so should be easily doable, as long as the rear tyre holds up...

Didn't set a mileage target, but I've been after a local KOM for years.  I did it a few weeks back, tried again today and got within a second.  So the top two best times are mine 🙂

Also been aiming to complete my local loop in under an hour.  Today I got 1.01.50 but if it hadn't been for the incident with the cow I'd have been comfortably under.

I had planned another 180 miler, this time North to South Wales, but I think that's logistically too difficult this year.

I have a few more KOMs in mind.  One is an obvious 3.30 climb in the local busy woods that most people apparently don't do, so I'm third and only need about another 13 seconds.  Would have been pretty close yesterday if I hadn't dabbed, so that's definitely on.  I'm also 3rd on the 4 hour western Ridgeway segment, and I reckon I could do much better on that 🙂

"I set myself a 4,000km target for 2018"

"best year was 2016 with 3,700"

"For me it’s just a way of motivating me to get out a bit further and do a bit more"

"I’m sat on 1,340km only 656km behind the pace… "

I dropped Strava 6 months ago because I was severely depressed and the pressure from Strava was making me even more miserable. My target for this year was to start enjoying my rides again. I had a fantastic time riding the Trans-Cambrian MTB route (174km) back in April and have done some big days out on the bike. I’ve also improved my confidence on descents.   Fairly happy with that.

I aim to do 100km off road a month

I think ive done about 500km so far, which isnt bad, as I have 4 kids under 7years, its not easy getting long rides in!

commuting is about 50km a week, but on road doesnt count in my book

Objectives for the year weren’t mileage based, but rather to increase the scope of my riding from local XC/ Trail riding. As such I’ve had skills training, learnt how turn properly and tackle drops and jumps. Entered my first Enduro event, finally made it to Bike Park Wales, bought an AM/Enduro bike and am off on my first proper Alpine riding trip in a couple of weeks.

So, all things considered, pretty good ! 😁

Geex +1

I Strava, because I'm ok with being 342/944 or whatever on much of it.  And if I miss my goals, then so what?  But be aware if it's making you miserable.  A bit like gambling - when the fun stops, stop.

And if I miss my goals, then so what?  But be aware if it’s making you miserable.

Yep mine are there only to remind me to get out on the bike more because it's good for me. A little bit of pressure to do another lap of something or ride the long way home etc. The years with the bigger numbers have generally been the fun ones.

As for the story of how I cam to feel flawed it actually sounds really positive in the thread with people having lots of different targets and aims for the year.

Target was Southdowns way in sub 12 hours. Achieved that in May, 11hr 31m, so now enjoying riding the MTB with a good level of fitness underneath.

Don't dismiss goals or target setting, I was having a brilliant year's riding because I had a target event to train for which was just a little bit of extra motivation to get out on those days when I maybe wasn't feeling it.

Meant some amazing rides that I might have skipped otherwise, mostly winter rides in crappy weather etc.

The Strava heatmap hss been great motivation too, sometimes I want to get out just to ride some new roads, fill in some blanks : D

Targets ?

Nope ..I ride for fun with mates .. not for the sake of having to ride ..

I haven’t had a bad ride yet .

Having said what I did up there, don't think that setting targets and having fun are mutually exclusive. For some they might be, but for others they aren't. For the former this might seem inconceivable, but we don't all take life the same way 🙂

4449.2 km up to now this year. I'd estimate around 1000 outdoors and the rest indoors on Zwift which doesn't count to some, but i'm fine with adding on as i did the same last year. I didn't really set myself a goal other than enjoying riding this year, which with plenty of our sunny Saturday rides i'm certainly managing to do so 🙂

Maybe i need to chuck up another Swinley thread for this coming weekend actually.

Set myself 2 goals this year - go further than last year and do Cut Gate and Jacob's in one ride. Currently ahead month vs month on the going further goal (130 km in distance and 9.2 km in elevation) and have been working the fitness up slowly to do the other one - it'll be about a 75 km ride with ~2,200 m of climbing. I've done that distance before, but up until this year I hadn't done more than 1,800 m climbing in one ride, so trying to be sensible about it. The annoying thing is that I was planning on doing it this month and now I've come down with a bloody cold, so hoping that buggers off before it destroys my fitness!

I'm not that serious about my goals, but I've really enjoyed pushing myself to go that little bit further - 2 years ago my average ride was about 30 km in the Peak, but now it's probably ~50 km. More distance = more descents = more fun!

Modest goals this year as we had our first baby in January, so trying to maintain what i've done in previous years was going to be an achievement. So aiming for 2000+ miles and getting some longer touring/bikepacking rides mixed in too.

First few months was tough and very little riding, but now things are easier and i'm commuting more by bike, up to 950miles and had a superb off road bikepacking weekend in the back mountains/Brecon beacons last weekend. Should be fine to reach my goal by end of the year, and hope to get in a few more overnighters. Looking forward to first ride with my son in a seat up front!

There's this rock qualifier to a lovely off camber descent through a wood that I invariably clip out of every time I roll over it (in the wet it's a slime fest of mud and moss) that I want to get in the habit of riding clean before the bad weather starts in again. And a tight left hander into a rock jumble that's a 50/50 shot at best and I want to get the line sorted.

That's it.

Two targets - more riding, more smiling - ahead on both.

Still haven't joined that Strava thing yet.

You sound like a bunch of roadies, not one mention of quality, for me it is all about aesthetics, that ribbon of singletrack,  a long techy descent in the high mountains ridden clean, just being in the mountains with those expansive views . My mantra  aims, goals and quality.

Waaaaaay too subjective, a road or trail might be quality one day, crap the next, or that one gem of a trail/road might be bracketed by crap on either side. You'd never end up riding for fear of not riding the 'best' trail.

Better to just ride loads and let quality find you.

I've done 418km this year. Normally I'd be up around 1500 but events have conspired. That and not commuting have killed my mileage.

That said, 200 of those kms have come from two FNRttC events which I've really enjoyed, so I'm not too bothered.

Went out for a 30km spin Sunday morning and smashed loads of segment PBs without really trying so it can't be harming me too much 🙂

You sound like a bunch of roadies, not one mention of quality, for me it is all about aesthetics, that ribbon of singletrack,  a long techy descent in the high mountains ridden clean, just being in the mountains with those expansive views . My mantra  aims, goals and quality.

That's the other thread, where people post up pics and rave about what they've done. This thread is for the stats, man 🙂

The reason I'm trying to motivate myself to put in a decent mileage, especially when the weather is shite in Jan/Feb/March, is to be able to do the rides I want now the good weather is here without feeling like I'm dying and having to bail halfway through.

a long techy descent in the high mountains ridden clean, just being in the mountains with those expansive views

LOL i live in West Berks, not Morzine. I got a day in the woods above Goring/Pangbourne at the weekend, that's as exicting as it gets !

Didn't really set a target distance / elevation gain wise, just one to do 10 hours or structured (my own made up plan) riding / training per week up to the middle of May then rest for the WEMBO Euro 24hr Solo MTB champs at the start of June and then see what happened after that.

I pretty much achieved the 10 hours a week thing with a mixture of track, turbo, commuting and some actual proper riding for fun, coupled with as many races as I could fit in. It all appears to have worked as I bagged some respectable results in the run up and a very good one at the Euros 🙂

Since then I've only done a few short rides, but the base fitness is still there and the speed is coming back, so once the decorating and other jobs I neglected for the first few months of the year have been finished, and the family holiday (there'll be some riding done on that, especially as we're on Cornwall), done it'll be back on the bike trying to restructure things for a possible tilt at the WEMBO World's at the back end of October.

This will obviously write off any thoughts of racing 'cross until at least December,  when the season is basically done and dusted anyway.

So target wise, all good a the moment. Deciding what I'm doing over the next few months, somewhat wooly to say the least.

2018 aims - to learn how to wheelie and jump.

I am yet to achieve this.

I just head out and ride. Doesn't really matter if it's road, gravel, MTB or whatever - I'll just do whatever I feel like on the day. Having a target (or targets) is useful as motivation and stops me being lazy.

The Strava monthly climbing challenge is the only "external" challenge and living where I do is actually fairly easy to reach - I did 14,500 metres of climbing in May for example but actually rode less than half the days in the month, about 3/4 of that total was off-road. Just the nature of the beast 🙂

I dont track miles, no interest in that. I track how may bike-parks/centre's I visit. At least once or twice a week weather permitting.

So 10 this year. Later start due to raining till mid April & then injured for a month.

I'm 2144 into a 4000 mile goal for 2018.
Zwift has been a leg saver when its crap outside.

Goal this year was 500 000 feet descent. So far 150 000 completed, 2 weeks lift assisted in France coming up though...

sorry but you didn't cover any miles at all while you Zwifted your life away scared of the weather..