2020 Yearly Goals

Not too bad so far, had planned on using the bike to get to & from work a lot more this year irrespective of the "C" word, and I'm doing just that. Around 730km for April which would have been one of my best months ever. Hoping to break the 5,000km ceiling this year so here's hoping.

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Mine are:

4000km overall (up from 2200km - poor first half of the year, travel and late nights at work, and a short commute mean that reaching this will involve getting out for my usual 80k or so almost every weekend)

More midweek evening summer spins (up from 0 last year, no real idea why I had so few)

1000km around town and casual rides mainly on my new Brompton

Metric century and possibly 200km in one go (from 110km longest to date)

More sportives and one of Flanders or Liege

1000km in Ireland including two 100km+ sportives (work abroad so not as easy as it sounds - only managed Tour de Kilkenny this year)

Finally, aiming for significant spend on bikes or gear beyond a bike fit, servicing and some new club kit (have chopped and changed bikes on a yearly basis for the last 3 or 4 years for no real reason other than messing around).

If I make all of the above I'm planning to buy a new Di2 disc bike

End of summer and I'm ahead of target for the overall 4000km in spite of the lack of commutes for the last six months. I should make the 4000. Haven't missed a Sunday club ride aside from holidays since my club went back in May (covid-proofed), and have made it over 300km in every month aside from February (miserable weather and a few ilnesses).

The midweek summer spins wasn't great due to a new job and long hours, probably did three or four.

The 1000km on a Brompton will be easily met.

The 1000km in Ireland and a few sportives looks like one to keep for next year.

Not spending money was a complete failure but will be added again next year and failed again most likely. I do like my new bike though.

Will try to do a 150km ride but shorter days makes this not a certainty. Probably could have planned that better on a long weekend over summer tbh

New target is to get to 4500km by 20 December or so, and see if I can break the 5000km by doing the Festive 500. Will depend on covid, travel and to be honest weather too.

How are people doing?

Macy0161 wrote: »

Mainly process goals for me, and a focus on Gravel.

• Stick to the TrainerRoad Plan, hitting at least the 3 key workouts a week and taking rest days.
• Nutrition - Fuel my workouts/ spins, recovery, and continue to tweak my overall diet. Mainly to include more carbs, and less empty/ poor calories.
• Sleep - Give myself a chance of 8 hours a night.
• My A Events - Dirty Reiver 200km (make cut off’s, and complete), Lakelander Gravel Grinder (to beat last years time). There will be other, but these are my target events that my TrainerRoad plan is built around. Others on the calendar already are the Dying Cow, Reservoir Dog, Midland 300, Long Heron, The 3G's gravel grinder.

Yearly km targets aren't really on my radar, with the inevitable slower pace of gravel spins, whilst my actual outside riding window will be the same! I still plan to get my Gran Fondo badge per month though.

Macy0161 wrote: »

• Mostly yes. Swapped a few workouts for Zwift classics workouts, trip up the Alpe last week instead of a threshold workout. But happy I have.
• Nutrition was going well, slipped during the first few weeks of lockdown, getting back on track now. Plan was adjusted using TR Plan Builder, back in Base phase, so haven't been fuelling. Will pick that up when back in build.
• Sleep - struggled during lockdown - work has been pretty stressful and eating too late (see nutrition). Getting back on track.
• Dirty Reiver re-scheduled for September. Didn't take the refund, and that's what I have as my "A" event in plan builder.

April was my first fondo badge of the year! Stuck to Gravel right up to lockdown. Quite enjoying my weekend zwifting. Uber Pretzel on Sunday hopefully, with Zwift Team Ireland!

1. Most consistent I've been, and seeing the improvements. Doing the Key workouts during the week, and then been getting out on a faster club spin, and surviving.
2. Nutrition - ok, most of the week. Probably more weekend slippage than I'd like.
3. Sleep - Been hard, but routines kicking back in now with Schools back
4. Dirty Reiver Cancelled - took the refund as hard to see things improved that much by April.
   Lakelander is still on, as is the Grass Routes Gran Fondo, which are my two remaining entries.

Still on the fence whether I'll travel to either, more inclined for the smaller Grass Route, as it was always a small event, not split in 4 start times half an hour apart.
Sports Events not cancelled v NEPHT advice to minimise social interactions is something I'm struggling with as someone in the family pod that's vulnerable to be honest. Not looking for advice or opinions, something I have to make the call myself!

I’m at almost 7500 of my 10000km target. Haven’t had time for many real long spins due to work or childminding commitments but doing little and often seems to be working.
Happy enough with that

07Lapierre wrote: »

1:Annual Goal is 14,500 klm
2: Compete in IVCA and hopefully earn a few points
3: Complete the Amstel Goal Sportive without getting hypothermia!
4: just heard about a club mate who was knocked off her bike from behind by a guy in a 4x4 SUV! 3 fractured vertebrae! And she’s still in hospital!, so my final goal is to stay alive while cycling on irish roads!

Just looking at the goals i'd set myself this year....Geez how optimistic was I?
I'm about 1000k off my Annual target and after this morning's commute, even no 4 is looking dodgey!

I'm at 4456km and my target was 5000, so today new target set of 6500

This isn't much compared with the other stats here but I just ticked over 2000 km, which for me is twice what i usually do annually as no commutes and usually limited to 2 spins a week of a couple of hours. Also hit a little by 2 injuries. 30,000m of up in my 2k kms though, which i think is decent. Still have a 176km spin to do on the 11th Oct (tour du lac leman), doing it with a crew from work, and this year hoping from now to still get another 1000km in before the end of the year...which will involve kitting myself up a bit for cold/wet weather cycling which i've managed to avoid for the last few years. Most of the training i've done this year because i am permanently time limited, has been interval training and its made a massive difference to my climbing in particular.

lissard wrote: »

Well I think I'm on track to hit 5000km in the year. Joined a club in July

Out of interest, how much did you find your natural average speed increased when you started cycling in groups or did you have to put in an effort to improve?

lissard wrote: »

... Drafting means you can freewheel a lot more so way less energy expenditure than when doing it on your own. It's not for nothing that bunches exist in cycling ;-)....

Apart from drafting, there's also a tendency to 'up' your game in a group whereas, when solo, there can be a tendency to ease off a bit as you're not going to drop off the back.

As usual the aim was 10,000 kms. Got to 9800 and ran outof motivation.
Got to the end of november and was thinking maybe 11,000 km can happpen then between the weather and other things I started to think I would struggle to get to 10.
A couple of club spins got me to 9900 amd then dragged myself around 2 X 50 k local loops.
So got there in the end.
Now to have a good dig around and see if I can find that motivation to get on the rollers and do the main road criterium due to lock down.

I'm on 3985/4000. Totally ran out of motivation in early December. Was on course for 4500 & was considering the Festive 500 too. But happy with it all considered, this year I've switched from rarely doing club rides to being there every week (lockdowns aside) so have gone off solo spins for some reason.