How's 2017 working out?

07Lapierre

Just passed the 12,000k mark today, so my goal of 15,000k is not going to happen.

It was always going to be a difficult target for me, what with holidays and the fact that work has a habit of taking up 5 days a week!

I'm still going to beat last years total and a good bit of this years distance is due to Racing and not just commuting and club spins. So if I get 13,000+ for 2017, that'll do me.

So how's everyone's plans working out?

jamesd

Set 4000km as my goal and passed it last weekend so happy with that, got some nice cycling done in Majorca this year and also in Flanders so a good year.
31000m Elev

py

Passed my elevation goal last week, on track to meet my distance goal but going to fall short of my goal of attending 10 audax/sportive events but not overly disappointed with that. A good year!

Eamonnator

I'm at 14,029 kms.
I was aiming for 15,000 for the year, so all still to play for.
Just over 94,000 metres elevation
Ave. speed is up again this year to 28.4kph, so happy enough.

C3PO

Having a much better year than I thought I would.
Back in college a couple of nights a week so set an initial target of 10,000kms and 100,000mts elevation.
12,800kms and 157,000 done so far so well happy with that ... December usually “falls of a cliff” though!
Only missed a handful of daily commutes all year so that’s 140kms in the bank every week which really helps!

Beasty

Disaster! - next question

bilbot79

Did 55kms Valdemossa loop in Majorca in September on a trek emonda carbon/ultegra thing having only ever commuted to work.

Needless to say it was one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done and now in Black Friday deals I've only gone and bought an Eddy Merckx Mourenx 69 2017 for impending Gran fondos in Wicklow and a Giant SL1 Contend disc for Strava infused commuting (and also so my brother can come out with me to Wicklow)

Half decided to knock the booze on the head this year so looking forward to the cycling

I'm gonna give myself an initial target of 5000kms, this would see me doing more mileage on the bike than the car 😂

P_1

60 odd km short of my annual distance goal which is good going seeing how I was doing in June. Should make it for the year.

koutoubia

6118km .....most amount in my strava history and still December to go!
6849 mtrs climbed.
0 crashes.......to date.
Happy Enough!

Eamonnator

^^^^^^
Is your elevation figure correct?

koutoubia

Eamonnator wrote: »

^^^^^^
Is your elevation figure correct?

Dunno...Does it look wrong?
The other number is 37,888mtrs.
Does that make more sense?

positron

Yeah probably. Unless you were riding somewhere pancake flat?

My total distance is less than 2000 kms so far this year (first year of cycling, focus on marathon training, also a first), and yet elevation shows some 11000 meters.

Eamonnator

@koutoubia
37,888 metres seems about right.
You'd do 600-700 metres of elevation on a Sunday spin.

secman

Set a target of 6,000 km for the year as I was hitting 60 this year. Currently standing at 5,688 so should hit the target, Strava has me just ahead of target for most of the year.
No commuting, or racing for that matter just Billy no mates spins

gaffmaster

Broke my 5000km target already but has been a very stop-start year with injuries etc. Biggest difference this year, is the addition of Zwift rides contributing to the overall mileage; previous years would have been noted as an hour on the turbo with no distance registered.

I missed my Ride London target time by a minute!

Happy enough though, and I don't think I'll be anywhere near this figure next year, unfortunately.

Miklos

I think I had a good year cycling wise. Got into racing and performed respectably in club league and A4 races, I’ve plenty to work on now for next year!

daragh_

Will hit 12,000 sometime on Thursday AM.

Apart from that I didn’t hit any of my goals. Had hoped to win a Road Race. Came close a few times in the Vets but being crap at sprinting meant my best result was a 5th. Pretty disappointed but there’s always next year.

Highlight was 2nd in the 4-man category in the Race Around Ireland. This year was bloody hard. Non-stop grind. Thankfully I had the best teammates and crew.

Didn’t get to one CX race so that was a washout.

Roll on 2018.

(Shuffles off to research Hamper Races)

eeeee

Silver medal at the nationals this year, PB in the IP too after no winter and fcuk all training. Disappointed with the time, but happy with it now considering the year I had.
Did my first stage race on the road and absolutely loved it.
Vague plans to do the Rás (the real one in Kilkenny :P at some point in the future. Maybe. If it doesn't interfere with track too much

Be good to get some sort of a winter from whats left of 2017, haven't had one yet heading into a season, in my head this leads to all kinds of awesome deadly-ness :cool:

Gerry

I think at the start of the year considering I was on crutches recovering from severe ankle francture I'm delighted I'll end up over 5000km. I've exceeded my own target for recovery, did two an post 160s, randonee, w200, Cooley thriller and two xc races. Another enforced layoff from broken arm at cx race may turn out to help my ankle. Building the km back up now.

Beasty

positron wrote: »

Yeah probably. Unless you were riding somewhere pancake flat?

I have it on good authority he does not do uphill unless there is a team car to hold onto....

Cee-Jay-Cee

Diaster for me this year. I have hurt my back 3 times, first injury in June knocked me out till the end of August. Then repeated the injury at the beginning of September and again 3 weeks ago. Total this year is less than 2500km and at this stage not likely to pass 3000km. Fitness is shot to pie es right now and so the winter is going to be hard.

Hopefully next year will be better.

site_owner

Set a goal of 5k but didn't start cycling until august.
Currently at 3k so won't make it, but am feeling good about next year

smacl

Total disaster of a year here. Going well early in the year, then picked up a bad chest infection June, followed by a sprained ankle and then a serious crash in July which has left me with less than six months of cycling in total. Still find cycling quite painful and being about 5kg heavier not helping either. Hoping to get one or two longish spins in again in December to see if I can find the love for the bike again, but finding it hard work.

magicbastarder

currently at 3.7k, so aiming for 4k by year's end.

Grassey

3800km, 37000m elevation so far.

Not as good as I'd like, 2.5k done in first half of year (no commuting) before a new addition to family. Balance in last 2 months solely from commuting as I'm not allowed car anymore during week, or long weekend spins ðŸ˜

terrydel

07Lapierre wrote: »

Just passed the 12,000k mark today, so my goal of 15,000k is not going to happen.

It was always going to be a difficult target for me, what with holidays and the fact that work has a habit of taking up 5 days a week!

I'm still going to beat last years total and a good bit of this years distance is due to Racing and not just commuting and club spins. So if I get 13,000+ for 2017, that'll do me.

So how's everyone's plans working out?

Just shy of 7000k at the moment, was hoping for 7500 and should manage that.
Just over 84k elevation.
Big believer in quality over quantity and I'd say that 90% of what I do is very intense training. Only started commuting recently (1 day a week, I've done 2 days of it!) so everything else is proper training.

Plastik

Still ticking over. Will need a couple of big weeks to hit 19,000km for the year, hopefully the weather plays ball!

mamax

I'm happy out the way this year went, kept with young lads half my age on the fast spins and this weekend will get me to 5000km this year with 55k elevation, no commuting so all solo and club spins
The target for next year is 7000km :cool:

RobFowl

Beasty wrote: »

I have it on good authority he does not do uphill unless there is a team car to hold onto....

He has been know to be the team car that is held on to

trek climber

Bit of a disaster really, target at start of year was 8000 - 8500k to include a 7th Wicklow 200 and then part of 4 man team taking part in RAI. Came off bike slowing down outside coffee shop at end of January and broke bone in shoulder which had me off bike of 4 weeks. Then had 2nd accident in April following incident with 40 foot trailer, ended up with 4 broken vertebrae and spent 20 weeks in a brace (neck and upper body). Luckily no permanent damage but missed the RAI and nearly 5 months off the bike. Back cycling but only short distances as still not 100% healed.
Will still cross 4000k for the year but will not be sorry when this year is over.

monkeyslayer

Having had fairly major shoulder surgery just last Saturday I'm done cycling for the year and probably for the forseeable future... still pretty happy with the year, approx 6000kms on the fancy bike and probably another 4000kms on the beater both commuting and getting around the city. Lots of spins around the counrty and managed a few sportifs in for the first time in years which was great. My only regret is not getting carbon bars sooner in the year, the difference it made to my back and shoulder pain was unreal.

magicbastarder

trek climber wrote: »

Then had 2nd accident in April following incident with 40 foot trailer, ended up with 4 broken vertebrae and spent 20 weeks in a brace (neck and upper body).

this accident was also on the bike?

Takca

I started cycling in January with a average of speed of 19km/h and a distance target of 2017km

I hit the 2017km target in August, so I changed it to 2017 miles, I'm currently about 90km short of that so it shouldn't be a problem.

I also set 25+ other targets at the start of the year, one of them (get half way up this leaderboard) is proving difficult(12th of 14 at the moment) and will drag into next year but thats fine.

The distance was my main target for the year, I'll hit that so overall I'm pretty happy

I've already set about 15 targets for next year ... :eek::eek::eek:

trek climber

magicbastarder wrote: »

this accident was also on the bike?

Yes, cycling on hard shoulder with head down, trailer parked on hard shoulder and bang !! (never saw it )

Lusk_Doyle

A whopping 2,700k for me so far. Not a failure per se but an achievement given that I only started back when the Swords league began. Oh and I ran the Dublin Marathon too!

mr spuckler

I'd aimed for 5,000km for the year - currently on 4,472km and 75km behind pace according to Strava. I was way behind during the summer so think I should be able to just about reach the target, pending limited Christmas nights out and allowing for the fact that the last week of December will be pretty much a no-go!

only problem is the majority of that is commuting miles. next year i'll be aiming for much more of a balance between commuting and leisure spins and setting a higher target too.

07Lapierre

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

A whopping 2,700k for me so far. Not a failure per se but an achievement given that I only started back when the Swords league began. Oh and I ran the Dublin Marathon too!

You ran? This is a cycling forum...running doesn't count

secman

trek climber wrote: »

Yes, cycling on hard shoulder with head down, trailer parked on hard shoulder and bang !! (never saw it )

Jeez that's sounds painful, speedy recovery to you.

Mercian Pro

Broke the 10,000km target on Sunday, a month earlier than last year. Hadn't set a climbing target but I'm at 82,790m with hopefully a few more spins to come yet. No commuting but lots of club spins and thirteen sportives/charity rides. Must sign up to VeloViewer.com again to get their fancy end of year graphic - last year's one below.

LollipopJimmy

Terrible for me. I'm around 5000kms, had hoped for a lot more than that, considering I had a two week spell where I did 1/5th of that it's not great.

RobFowl

11,400 kms for me so well on target for 12k which was an aim
Rode well in IVCA and A4 races with out any great placings (a few top tens)
A 2 day in Cong as well which was good craic (super DS Koutobia)
Did some Swords league ones for fun too
Cross wise did 3 peaks which was an experience !
Riding some other ones too and going well.
Week in Girona and some great cycling there as well.
Crashed twice and few more facial scars to add to the collection.....
Overall good year and met some great people.
Am privileged to go cycling with great people every week and enjoy it immensely.

C3PO

Plastik wrote: »

Still ticking over. Will need a couple of big weeks to hit 19,000km for the year, hopefully the weather plays ball!

Wow!!

Mercian Pro

RobFowl wrote: »

Am privileged to go cycling with great people every week and enjoy it immensely.

Couldn't (and didn't) put it better myself!

rushfan

After doing reasonably well the last few years, 2017 wasn't great. A prolonged bout of bronchitis in May absolutely floored me. Measly total of 2292km ytd which doesn't please me. Roll on 2018.

nilhg

Tipping along here much the same as last year and the year before, just north of 10,500km and just south of 90k climbing, would hope to comfortably get over the 11,000km mark but not particularly chasing any figure.

It's been a good year mostly though I missed out on quite a few sportives I had hoped to get to, just did the Orwell Randonnee and the WW200, longest spin was a 316km spin down to Kerry (into a headwind all the way) and biggest week of climbing was a few weeks ago in Tenerife with 10k meters in 6 days on the bike.

Did a few club league races with the usual lack of success and got a nice few TT's in with a few PBs along the way so happy enough with that.

rollingscone

Will be lucky to hit 6,500km for the year with 60km of upward travel.

No commute.

godtabh

Strava is telling me I'm 68km a head of my 8000km target. What it doesnt tell me is that I reduced that target down from 10000km earlier in the year. My biggest problem is that I'm not consistent enough.

Distance: 7,344.5 km
Time: 287h 54m
Elev Gain: 56,789 m
Rides: 312

billyhead

Currently at 8,500km between commuting, the very seldom weekend spin and on the beater. Could be worse and could be better too:D

twinsen

9,685 from initial target of 5,000.
Planning to hit 10,000 by next Friday as my own birthday gift.

07Lapierre

My 15,000k is looking more likely tonight! Drunk driver crashed into my parked car this evening! Looks like I'll be cycling everyday now!

Wishbone Ash

07Lapierre wrote: »

My 15,000k is looking more likely tonight! Drunk driver crashed into my parked car this evening! Looks like I'll be cycling everyday now!

That was a lovely motor. Was it 'written off'? Hope you get sorted.