[Closed] What are you going to do in 2012?

I want to do the C2C from Walney Island to Whitby - 2 days and lovely scenery
Get fit enough to do the above
ride the CRC Marathon events at a better level
learn to ride switchbacks properly
learn to accept that my life is actually pretty alright 🙂

1) Ride more (not just to work)
2) Continue training and build kickboxing club
3) Getback fitness I had 2 years ago
4) Support family through wife's stroke treatment
5) Learn to love my job

I've got seven.

1. The [url= http://www.hauteroute.org/en/ ]Haute Route[/url] stage 1
2. The Haute Route stage 2
3. The Haute Route stage 3
4. The Haute Route stage 4
5. The Haute Route stage 5
6. The Haute Route stage 6
7. The Haute Route stage 7

Or you could argue I've just got one.

1. Learn to enjoy riding in the rain.
2. learn to enjoy riding in the cold.
3. Learn to clean my bike after every ride.
4. Wash the car more often.
5. Start racing again.

1. Passportes du soleil
2. Not swap motorbikes
3. Commute (17 miles e/w) 30+ times
4. Roger the wife more than 12 times 😉

1. Learn to drive (boring, but I am 28 and relying on the trains/buses is starting to grate).

2. Sportives - NoFuss Glen Coe sportive in under 6 hrs, Bealach Beag in under 2:45, Cairngorm Classic in under 5. Not massively ambitious times but given my sporadic approach to training I'll be happy if I manage them.

3. Munros - I don't want to commit to a number because that sort of approach seems to preclude some good routes, although doing another 50 odd to reach 100 is reasonable. Certainly want to do Cruachan via the northern ridge, the Bridge of Orchy hills from Gorton bothy, the Lochaber Traverse to Nevis, and maybe the ridge from Victoria Bridge to Starav, with Trilleachain thrown in the next day if I have time.

4. Camping - One big two week-er with the rucsac, starting Glenfinnan and finishing where-ever the weather and the hills dictate, preferrably Torridon.

5. Move to Vancouver (the wheels are in motion already). 8)

Edit: Thinking about it, saving for #5 would realistically make reaching 100 munros a bit optimistic. Lets say 80. Edit edit: Or maybe just 75..

13FM,

Wow on no. 5! Might make no.3 a bit trickier, even if you manage no. 1... Good luck with all of them.

I've only one goal so far - Raid Alpine in July (=hottest time of the year = planning fail).

Other, more nebulous, goals involve not being so miserable and negative.

Ski off piste all day
Ride better, especially over jumps
And some other stuff I won't share here.

If it happens Stuartie, if! Just need to keep her interested via skype for another 7 months, and hope the invitation remains open! 😀

Can't say I'd noticed the negativity, you obviously keep it off the bike anyway. Need to grab a hill or two with you in the new year.

Less alcohol
More sex
Learn to meditate
Eat better
Ride more

1. take more care of myself/give my depression a damn good kicking 2.ride my bike more often (in all weathers 😯 3.practice the guitar daily 4.see my friends more often 5.have a bike holiday (haven't had a holiday for 18 years 😯

1) Do a 24h race (I've never done one... or any race for that matter).
2) Swap the P7 for a 100mm travel steel hard tail (R8 maybe?).
3) Save some money (no.2 might ruin that... also not having a job might ruin that).
4) Learn to read music.
5) Try to keep the fitness I have from cycling round NZ (2 months to go, back in UK in March).
6) Oh yeah, get a job when I come back (please look after the economy until then!).

Happy new year by the way (it's 2012 already over here!).

1: Ride as much as I have this year (>10m / day on average)
2: Ride a long distance route in the UK - quite fancy the Trans Pennine Trail - Hull back to Liverpool maybe?
3: Yoga and weights at least once a week
4: Get (and stay) under 13 stone
5: Keep my chin up & head straight(er)

Here's to 2012. Happy New Year STWers. 🙂

1. Stay fit and healthy. No more CFS/PVF/ME or whatever it is/was, that can piss off for good!
2. Do the "teenage rebellion" I never did when I was younger. Already started this one, plan to continue and enjoy it some more! 😛
3. Ride my road bike more. I actually enjoy it every time I get out on it, but strangely struggle with the motivation to get on it.
4. Learn more natural trails. I've got a bit bored with either riding laps of a trail centre, or being led by other people. Last year started to take a stand, and made sure I learnt a couple of routes round my normal riding spot, and have furthered that slightly this year. But I want to get to the point where any one of say 6 or 8 riding spots near to where I live, I am the go to man to lead a ride. Don't know why, I just like it, perhaps it's cos it makes me feel useful, I don't know...
5. Be more selfish... Might sound crazy to a lot of people, but I know because I genuinely go out of my way for a lot of people I consider to be friends, they end up taking the piss cos it becomes the norm and they expect it. My ex GF, lovely as she was, I went out of my way right at the start of our relationship for her so much, that basically within a few weeks, it was expected of me to be her personal chauffeur for free, anywhere and everywhere, including to work and back (20 miles each way) before I went to work myself! I'm just gonna focus on looking after number 1, if my plans fit in with helping someone else out then fair enough, but otherwise I ain't going out of my way any more...

Give up the stw

Probbly have a poo.

Mboy,that sounds spot on, strength to you.

1) Commute 3 times a week.
2) 1 4hr + ride in a different county per month.
3) Not eat like I'm some sort of athlete.
4) Do more of the things I love.

1. Double century
2. LeJog
3. Walk the Knoydart Munros, and potentially the Glen Shiel ones
4. Go to Australia
5. Give up beer for at least three months

1) Move to California.
2) Learn to like North American trails...
3) Get certified in frame building.
4) Figure out what I want to do when I grow up.
5) Keep a tidy house.

Lose another 2 stone. (2 off so far).

Debating if I could realistically go the whole year with one gear...and fully rigid... 🙂

takisawa2 - I'm rigid all day long. Suck my cog.

1. Get a driving license.

2. Sleep more.

3. Eat less.

4. Tidy up my flat.

5. Sort out BSOD - well I think I have ...

Drop another stone.
Save money for my trip to the alpes.
Be more organised.
Throw the credit card in the bin and pay it off.
Spend more time with the girlfriend.

Get rid of my full sus and go back to relative basics with a hardtail.
Get back into road biking and bmx.
Lose the rest of the weight I need to.
Beat this years bike mileage (about 1000).
Bike holiday, probably Wales.

1) ride my bikes enough so that the cost/ride drops to a sensible amount. It's still in treble figures so far on the soda... 😳

2) get my climbing fitness back (strained tendons in my back last Feb and it all went to rat shit by June), lead HVS and 6b on sight, hopefully lead an E1 by any means!

3) get some more munros done, only managed 2 new ones last year (and only 4 or 5) outings in total.

4) sort out my general eating and exercise habits (the above should help!) to get the weight back under control.

5) stop buying stuff I don't really need or use sufficiently, spend more wisely and learn to live within my (reduced) means. I need to stop dipping in to the savings for non-essentials or it'll be frittered away before I know it.

And I haven't even got to the play my guitars more and regularly. They are not ornaments you know... 😳

Happy New Year Everyone 😀

1) No more new bikes (cunningly agreed terms on a new to me frame yesterday so that one doesn't count!)
2) Get into med school
3) Save lots of money for med school, number 1 might help that (and if I don't get in then I have lots of money for a new bike 😉 )
4) Work hard to get back on the bike properly, and record my miles for the year when I do
5) Improve my diet - less cakes/sugar/fizzy drinks etc.

1. Spend less time on here.

I'm going to copy squidlord - well apart form the meditate bit...

[i]Less alcohol
More sex
[s]Learn to meditate[/s]
leave my "corporate nonsense" job and start my own business
Eat better
Ride more [/i]

Looking at all these makes my list seem so inadequate.

Mine was simply

1) Push my riding skills up a few notches.
2) Buy a couple of Kayaks and start kayaking.
3) Embrace my cynicism and accept that it's who I am.

Not really revolutionary but it'll do.

1. Get below 14 stone
2. Ride every stane.
3. Get a few 80+ mile rides done
4. Get out few 2/3 day outings done.

1. Put some good weight back on.
2. Cycle as least as much as during 2011.
3. Stick with my reduced alcohol intake.

Not NY resolutions as such, but plans/ intentions

1/ Get out and do more in general
2/ Start riding my bikes again
3/ Get organised
4/ Remember how to enjoy life
5/ Ride the Way of the Roses cycle route

1-4 are all a depression thing, for the last few years I've been popping pills to control it but the down side of them is I have absolutely no inclination what so ever to do anything over than sleep and go to work, this year that will change

5 will show me I managed it

5. Move to Vancouver (the wheels are in motion already).

I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with this.

1) ride my bike. a bit.
2) er, that's it really. keep on keeping on, as they say

move to Vancouver would be nice but knowing my luck the Cascadia fault would unzip a week after I got there

1-sort my bank accounts out (not that I've millions stashed away, but they're all a mess!)
2-get my little'un riding his balance bike
3-ride the asthma 'beach to beach' in good weather again
4-some uk enduro races
5-sell my excess bike bits and be happy with what i have
6-get my fork and shock on the meta serviced professionally

DrP

Be happier, ultimately, I spose.

Getting bike ready for an urban ride tomorrow
and do some photography

Have fun through out the year

Spend more time riding

Spending more time in our pad in Spain

Be Happy 😉

Not into new years resolutions but have a couple of goals for this year, since getting married in November to my partner of 18 years we have realised that we want to simplify our lives and get away from the stresses of work, etc. So:

1) buy a van and convert into a camper in the next few weeks,( anybody know of a good vw t5 or similar going)
2) ride more areas, lakes, peaks, quannies, etc
3) get out surfing every week
4) do more sportives
5) and most importantly spend more quality time with my family and friends

Get out on my mtb or roadbike more often
Get off my ass workwise
Lose Xmas poundage
Have some time with the wife away from the kids
Get to the pub more often to see my friends (went once all last year)

Hopefully chip away at this debt I'm in
Be in less pain
Find a car mechanic who can actually fix my car
Ride the SDW in one go (hope to do it both ways but one way will do for starters)
Learn the fingering on my alto recorder

- Enter Gravity enduros
- Enter Fort william enduro
- A decent alps holiday and not just following the usual DH tracks
- Ride my bike much much faster both up and down hill.

Karinofnine - Member

fingering

this is mine too

this reminds me of a paper/article (i can't find the link to) i read about declaring objectives to contemparies/otherS. the gists was stating the objective, "I'm going to ride 10,000 miles this year" etc, was self defeating. In summary those that kept the objective to themselves are much more likely to achive said objective than those that boast/proclaim their objective to others.

LOL at wallop

what Klunk said - for most people saying they intend to do something replaces doing it in their subconscious and the desire to achieve it is reduced. If I do what I'm planning to do I'll be sure and let you all know 🙂

My main priorities are
1)Get the house ready to sell
2)Find a good woman,know any in their 40's not to bitter & twisted / mad?..
3)Alpine holiday,we're looking at Verbier at the momment
4)Do 100 miles on the roadbike & enter at least one sportive
5)Do Manx E2E,not done it since 2006 time for a return
6)Been meaning to do the English C2C,still not done it
7)The other one I've still to do is the Mary Townley Loop
8)Manchester winter ales fest,Liverpool beer fest & Keswick beer fest.Ooh the anticipation,Tickets bought already 😆

Buy a house
Ride a lot more.
Get really happy on grade 3 whitewater.
Get fitter.
Do some long road rides
See my mates and family more.
Oh and start riding the shore at herts

Oh gods, really? Does this mean my car will NEVER get fixed? 🙁

One or two more than five but here goes::::

1) Decide once and for all whether to retire from work when I reach 65
in March. (cant really afford to to be honest)
2) Pay off my credit card.(its already been cut up and my pension pot
will pay off the balance.)
3) Complete my 'bucket list'
4) Spend more time in the gym
5) Do more than the one sportive I've signed up for.
6) Have a real mountain bike holiday somewhere sunny.
7) Try to listen to my body so that I could possibly stop a third
heart attack. (I think four stents is quite enough). 😉

1, continue to improve my fitness
2, expand my living and working caravn tripsto new areas, possibly into Europe
3, Make better investment plans, not just the usual stashing cash
4, spend more time wih friends
5, get over the first half of 2011 and fall in love with a woman who wont mess me around (and is capable of lovng me back)

1) go for a ride with WCA
2) see what happens after said ride
3) ditto
4) ditto
5) ditto

😉

- Climb at least one 4000m peak in the alps

- Cycle across France from the channel to the med

- Get better at bouldering and go to Font to shred my fingertips to pieces

- Do my first audax and sportive

- Invite more people round for dinner (I love the cooking / eating / drinking / talking combo)

- Volunteer more to encourage more people to start cycling and mountaineering

- Meet a great guy - know any in their 40's who aren't too bitter or twisted / mad? 😉

oh, one other thing. brew beer from scratch, starting today:
http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=47085&p=495429#p495429

18 litres of something peculiar, if you know what I mean 😉

move to Vancouver would be nice but knowing my luck the Cascadia fault would unzip a week after I got there

Quiet you! This is a little too close to the bone. Was in a relationship this time last year which bit the dust, in part due to (and via a slightly convoluted set of circumstances) the NZ CHristchurch earthquake. This time round my love interest has moved to Vancouver. No sooner had she arrived than they experienced a mild tremor, sufficient to shake their building slightly and scare the bejesus out of her... In short, I don't wish 'girls moving to other countries' and 'earthquakes' to become any more a feature of my relationships than they already have! 😕

All this talk of announcing intentions then not achieving them is also slightly close to the bone, I hope I've not jinxed myself! 8)

Sue W, I'm in my mid 40's, not to bitter, not at all twisted, but perhaps a touch mad 😉

Ahem ... sorry to mislead, but my final point was a gentle piss-take of Bustaspoke's comment above about wanting to find a single woman who wasn't bitter or mad ... I'm afraid it wasn't a serious resolution for 2012!

Sue W, no need to let me down gently, 2011 taught me all I need to know about being dumped 😉

supertramp - see it more as a lucky escape 😉

1] make baby number 2
2] get a kid trailer for baby number 1
3] loose the beer belly
4] tbh honest not arsed about much else maybe finish decorating the house, just kitchen bathroom to go, id like to do a youth club/scouts thing but hard making that work with the wee man around!
5] oh yeah get another tattoo

1 Get better at actually sticking to the lists I write.

Ride more (ride further afield regularly, ride more natural trails).
Eat & drink less.
Lose a bit of weight (the above two might be related).
Get back into 'serious' painting/photography.
(slightly further off the radar) Both me and Zoe find teaching jobs in a more 'bike (MTB) friendly' part of the country.

slainte 😳 rob

Sue W , I had one of those in may 2011, hence my lisy LOL

Sue the original comment was meant in jest,so I was expecting (and got) a non to serious reply.
I'm afraid I can't help with what you're looking for.I'm not bitter/ twisted or mad.However,boo hoo I am 50..

i will try to resurrect this thread in November/December to see who has achieved it and who has succumbed to the realization/achievement/demotivation thingy

Sit down in front of a computer more. Become a big hitter. Submit to peer pressure and become a representative member of the STW community:

Ride my bikes less, pollute more, drink too much, get fat, become a lousy lover and get ditched by Madame, remove the insulation from my house and install central heating, stop doing anything with junior, buy an impractical but flashy car... .

1> Ride more
2> Drink less
3> Eat less
4> Get rid of any toys not used in last year
5> Spend less time on STW

* 5 not likely to happen

My aim is to ride less.. cos I spent 2011 taking one step forward and two steps back by overworking a knee injury..

This horrendous task will be made infinitely easier as we'll be welcoming baby number 2 to the world in Feb.. and Mrs Yunki now has a half decent bike.. so I imagine that I will be spending some pleasant days bimbling around the countryside with my happy family..

Less is definitely going to be more for me this year

1. Try to beat the 4,000 miles of cycling done this year
2. Try to get slimmer - lost 1.5 stone this year
3. Try to find room to put all my clutter away in a very small flat
4. Try to stop smoking - again!
5. Try not to sound too desperate about finding a man - after all I've managed without one for many years.

Note all the above begin with "try" - I don't expect success in everything or indeed anything.

La Marmotte for the second time
Ride the Ridgeway in one day
Torq Rough Ride
Hampshire Hilly Hundred sportive
One other sportive
Might join a local road club and try some time trialling

Experiment with medication.

1. Make the most of what I have.. (I suspect i have a lot!)
2. Ride London to Paris
3. Raise £2000 for Starlight Chase Childrens Hospice [url= http://www.justgiving.com/london2paris12 ]Shameless Plug[/url]

1. ride more
2. run faster
3. worry less about food
4. be less boring about what I need to do!! LOL

1 Debt Free/Save up for things
2 Weigh 12.5st
3 Complete BB200
4 50 Commutes by bike (2000 miles)
5 Do a skills day

As we're roughly half way through the year now, I thought it would be interesting to revisit this. I said:

Less alcohol - fail
More sex - pass
Learn to meditate - not yet
Eat better - pass
Ride more - fail

How's everyone else done?

1. Ditch one car [done]
2. Commute by bike >90% of days [on course]
3. Ride more miles than I drive [possible]
4. Skills course with the kids [my need is the greater 😆 ]
5. Century with Son1 [he needs some training]