2021 Cycling Goals.

Fugs!! · 16-11-2020 11:36am #1

With possibly the worst year in living memory for cycling (and everything else really) coming to a close, there is some good news on the horizon. With The Possibility of a Vaccine early next year I am starting to feel optimistic so, its time to look forward and set goals or challenges or plans.

For me its achieving 300km in one day, weather it be an Audax or just head out early one morning and just do it alone. If I can get it done early in the year I might then try for a 400km spin. I even bought a new bike to help inspire me.

So What are your plans? Win a race? Do 100 miles? Learn to cycle? Do the ring of Kerry cycle? Just try enjoy it more? Get fitter?

cletus · 16-11-2020 11:47am

I have plans for a coiple of different bikepacking trips that didn't pan out this year. I'd like to do a 100 mile cycle as well. Other than that, I'd like to be on my bike more regularly than this year

Fugs!! · 16-11-2020 11:50am

I had half planned a bike packing trip this year too but never happened. Maybe next year!

barrier86 · 16-11-2020 2:39pm

For me it’ll be 5000km

CantGetNoSleep · 16-11-2020 2:42pm

I'm on course to hit my 2020 target of 4000km before the end of the month and should make 4500km depending on whether or not Christmas holidays happen. A good year for me in spite of covid and almost no commuting. Aside from February & the last few weeks I've been on the bike every single week, haven't missed a club ride aside from where I've been away or lockdowns, and my highest total km ever.

I had a goal not to buy any new bikes or spend any money. I'm +1 on overall number of bikes but have bought three and sold two - including an Ultegra Di2 disc good bike and a titanium gravel bike plus something cheaper for the turbo (selling an expensive bike so that was a money saving move). So that goal was a spectacular failure with a net spend of over 4k - boredom during lockdown, refunds from cancelled holidays etc. I'm going to make the same goal again as I'm quite happy with my fleet now - and I live in an apartment, although I do have a project on my mind (rim braked, sub 7kg, simple but cheap build).

I also wanted to do more sportives but that obviously didn't happen. I'd like to do a few next year but that is more wait and see for the moment.

Overall goal will be 5000km & I'd like to add in some longer trips, at least 200km in one go if not 300km, and a multi-day trip too

Macy0161 · 16-11-2020 2:53pm

Very hard to plan - not wanting to go off topic, but it seems to be this time next year when they expect things to be "normal". Anyway, I'm not planning anything overseas for next year!

With that in mind, I'm thinking about giving open racing another go, as more local and more likely to happen. I feel I'm stronger than the last time, and although I'm mentally not having a problem training, I'd like to have something to work towards.

But also have longer term aspirations for PBP or LEL, so would like to get up to 400km audax next year.

mamax · 16-11-2020 3:53pm

This years target was 5000km that included doing a 200km spin, that's done already so I'll try to get to 6000 by year end, so next year the target is 8000km with at least one 300km spin.

alentejo · 16-11-2020 6:22pm

Tony Holohan will allow me to cycle in the Wicklow Mountains!

Seth Brundle · 16-11-2020 6:37pm

Having met my 2020 target of 10,000km and looking like I'll get 12,000kms in before the end of the year, I might look at getting 15,000km in next year.
I'd also like to get a lot more hills in. I should have ventured into Wicklow more this year but with various lockdowns, most of my time was in Kildare.

I had also planned on a taking the train to Carrick on Shannon and making my way home via a number of family interests in Leitrim & Cavan (grandparents graves, etc.) - this would be my first 200km ride.

I also have plenty of holidays to take from work (before March) and I've had a trip to France in the back of my mind. A few days around Brittany on my todd might be nice, if possible.

I'm also planning on buying at least one more bike during the year.

ednwireland · 16-11-2020 6:39pm

ride my bike

Bambaata · 16-11-2020 7:39pm

A big goal for me is to get a bike that hasn't a crack in it! Praying racing returns in some way. Would love a good crack at a few mini stage races and hopefully love my 10 mile and 25mile TT times

Wishbone Ash · 16-11-2020 8:46pm

Bambaata wrote: »

A big goal for me is to get a bike that hasn't a crack in it! .....

Where are you getting your bikes?

Daroxtar · 16-11-2020 8:48pm

2019- Separated AC joint, broken ribs, punctured lung and a fractured elbow.

2020- Dislocated thumb and ruptured ligaments.

For 2021 I'd like to stay upright.

billyhead · 16-11-2020 8:48pm

Get out on the bike more and this WFH lark is contributing to that.

Wishbone Ash · 16-11-2020 9:02pm

Daroxtar wrote: »

2019- Separated AC joint, broken ribs, punctured lung and a fractured elbow.

2020- Dislocated thumb and ruptured ligaments.

For 2021 I'd like to stay upright.

Here's an option for you :pac:: https://www.ebay.ie/i/174336683535

grouchyman · 16-11-2020 10:01pm

Did my longest spin ever this yea 160kms and it looks like I'll make 5000 kms for the year in total.

Next year there's a 240 km spin I'd love to do and if I could do 5000kms again. I'd be happy out.

Edit

Oh and a few more

-- finally work out my max heart rate for training.
--- Do some structured training
--- Cycle 100kms at an average of 25kms an hour.
---- but mainly get out on the bike.
Get

dahat · 16-11-2020 10:10pm

12k aim again with a mixture of road & Zwift.

Don't need a rake of comments relating to the legitiamacy of the combined total!

Hoping racing resumes so I can attack my long standing aim of winning an A3 race.

New bike coming, Reacto 6000 and would like to add a disc brake winter bike late in the year.

Also need to learn more about maintenance to save a few sheckles.

crosstownk · 16-11-2020 10:13pm

Following a serious illness in 2018, I managed ~4,500km last year and targeted 6,000 km for this year which I reached in July. I've half an eye on 10,000km for 2020 as that'll see me back to where I was in 2017 before being laid up but I'm really not too pushed.

For 2021 I'm setting a different target: To ride my bikes for fun and leave the numbers behind.

I'd a cycling tour of Wales planned for 2020 that was shelved due to Covid so hopefully that might happen in 2021.

TheW1zard · 16-11-2020 10:18pm

What are the odds of the wicklow 200 goung ahead next year?
Feck all im sure :-(

Mercian Pro · 16-11-2020 10:34pm

Pretty much a cut and paste from Plans for 2020. Still focused on trying to get to 10k by the end of this year.

crosstownk · 16-11-2020 10:52pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

I've had a trip to France in the back of my mind. A few days around Brittany on my todd might be nice, if possible.

I considered getting the ferry from Cork to Roscoff - cycling from Roscoff to Cherbourg and then home on the Cherbourg to Dublin ferry. In the end I opted for Wales (Fishguard - Holyhead) as it required two days less holidays. Covid sank those plans.

lissard · 16-11-2020 11:26pm

Think 2021 is going to be a year of club rides which is fine by me. I'm going to dispense with a number target and concentrate on what makes me happy.

- Get more proficient on the MTB. Move from blue trails to red.
- Try a long off-road spin maybe part of the Wicklow Way.
- Get out for a regular 90-100k spin each week.
- Complete a 200k Audax.
- Participate in the club league.
- If foreign travel comes back : 5 days in the Italian Alps
- Failing that, tour somewhere new in Ireland.

David6330 · 16-11-2020 11:51pm

- Finish off the wild atlantic way trip I started back in August and possibly turn it into a lap around Ireland trip.
- Isle of Man TT race visit and cycle tour got canned this year. Fingers crossed it goes ahead next year.
- Complete my first 200km ride.
- Do the Barrow way bike packing trip
- Ireland to Asia extended trip - highly unlikely but can only keep dreaming

secman · 17-11-2020 12:02am

Having hit 10,000km last year unexpectedly, i set a target of 8,500 km for this year. Currently on 7,500 km having had 2 bouts of a 3 & 5 week lay off due to back pain. With a bit of luck i should hit the 8,500 km.

I've a few tests lined up for 2nd December, all going well a target of 8,500 km for 2021 sounds good .

Taxuser1 · 17-11-2020 10:59am

the accountability of this thread!
aim to have any type of good luck please this year! fractures, Di2 failure, sickness, getting caught close to the line. just give me a break next year Santa.

teroknor83 · 17-11-2020 12:13pm

- Get back to cycling with the club on regular basis
- Do some sportives (2020 was the first year in a long time I didn't do any)
- Go exploring on more routes in the county and beyond.
- 5,000 km always an annual target, only up to around 3 this year

Bambaata · 17-11-2020 1:46pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Where are you getting your bikes?

Ive 2 cracked Cannondale Supersix High Mods now. One was a car hit me and cracked seat tube, other was jammed chain launched the jockey wheel into the seatstay. Both had been repaired but the fork on one has now cracked down and isnt safe and the other has a crack in the other seatstay for reasons unknown! I did crash it with no real impact and not at a great speed (chain slipped as i stood to accereralte out of a corner after a club mate in our club champs) so both are now only good for the turbo!

Training these days on turbo and commute on a heavy Caadx so will need a road bike before season starts next year!

CapnHex · 17-11-2020 3:15pm

For 2021; Slea Head, Connemara, a Sportive or 2, as many greenways as I can.

Taxuser1 · 17-11-2020 7:33pm

Bambaata wrote: »

Ive 2 cracked Cannondale Supersix High Mods now. One was a car hit me and cracked seat tube, other was jammed chain launched the jockey wheel into the seatstay. Both had been repaired but the fork on one has now cracked down and isnt safe and the other has a crack in the other seatstay for reasons unknown! I did crash it with no real impact and not at a great speed (chain slipped as i stood to accereralte out of a corner after a club mate in our club champs) so both are now only good for the turbo!

Training these days on turbo and commute on a heavy Caadx so will need a road bike before season starts next year!

Same here. Sold 2 bikes to finance a pain cave. No road bike at all.

Doc07 · 17-11-2020 11:22pm

Fall back in love with the bike and open road and just hope do a few spins to Laragh and up Shay Elliot.
Had 5 wonderful years of club spins , audaxes, Marmotte&L’Etape, and even some club league placings (does limit count!) but I haven’t cycled on the road in 12 months. Work, Covid, bereavement and a prematurely disintegrated left knee f&cked up my cycling year.
Onwards and upwards in 2021

dahat · 17-11-2020 11:40pm

Taxuser1 wrote: »

Same here. Sold 2 bikes to finance a pain cave. No road bike at all.

Sold the TCR? How much for out of curiosity?
Looked at it a few times aas it would have made a great training / winter bike.

Taxuser1 · 18-11-2020 1:56am

dahat wrote: »

Sold the TCR? How much for out of curiosity?
Looked at it a few times aas it would have made a great training / winter bike.

Tcr was an unlucky bike for me

2200 the whole shebang

secman · 18-11-2020 9:07am

Taxuser1 wrote: »

Tcr was an unlucky bike for me

2200 the whole shebang

Did you have a fall ? Only noticing that your daily all weather commute is not happening. Was off strava myself for a period recently while injured so hadn't noticed.

arsebiscuits82 · 18-11-2020 9:13am

Simple aim, get back on the bike, and maybe buy a new bike.
With building the house, 3 kids under 6 and many other excuses I can think of, I've done nothing for 2 years. Maybe join the local club so motivate myself again.

smacl · 18-11-2020 10:54am

Truly horrible 2020 for myself as well with bereavement, various family stuff and of course the lock-downs. I reckon 2021 can only be better. Goals

6,000K of distance and 100K of up, look like getting 5,000K and 85K this year so pretty much rinse and repeat allowing for a bit more bike time.
Had a first go of the blue runs in the GAP just before the current lock down with a close friend, loved it and plan to make this a regular event. Would love to get some basic competency on an MTB and may just invest in a decent mountain bike if it looks like I'm keeping this up.
Get a 200k in, ideally an on and off road audax like the three aqueducts. Also try and get back to Mayo for the MTB/Gravel half audax which was great craic (don't reckon I'd get the full 200k finished), and maybe one or two similar events.
Get a solo 100k - 150k in most weekends during the late Spring, Summer and Autumn, ideally with a good amount of gravel / light off-road thrown in.

Taxuser1 · 18-11-2020 11:32am

secman wrote: »

Did you have a fall ? Only noticing that your daily all weather commute is not happening. Was off strava myself for a period recently while injured so hadn't noticed.

the commute had stopped with covid and wasn't travelling to town. unfortunately separately i broke my hip out around Blessington in late August. was on the TCR and hit a speed bump as I was changing gears, lost the handlebars and straight down in a heap on my lhs. well enough to ride the turbo now for the time being and slowly building the fitness and mobility back up.

secman · 18-11-2020 12:00pm

Taxuser1 wrote: »

the commute had stopped with covid and wasn't travelling to town. unfortunately separately i broke my hip out around Blessington in late August. was on the TCR and hit a speed bump as I was changing gears, lost the handlebars and straight down in a heap on my lhs. well enough to ride the turbo now for the time being and slowly building the fitness and mobility back up.

Ah sorry to hear that, hopefully you are on the mend.

Taxuser1 · 18-11-2020 12:11pm

secman wrote: »

Ah sorry to hear that, hopefully you are on the mend.

thanks J. appreciated.

Doc07 · 18-11-2020 12:17pm

Taxuser1 wrote: »

the commute had stopped with covid and wasn't travelling to town. unfortunately separately i broke my hip out around Blessington in late August. was on the TCR and hit a speed bump as I was changing gears, lost the handlebars and straight down in a heap on my lhs. well enough to ride the turbo now for the time being and slowly building the fitness and mobility back up.

Sorry to hear that, hope the rehab is going well

CantGetNoSleep · 01-01-2021 10:37pm

I've decided on an overall goal of 5000km with no other goals, and promised the wife a net spend target of zero

(she doesn't realise that I sold a set of unused DT Swiss wheels for 1100€ today, and that I've a gravel bike waiting to be built up and sold off so that will get me enough to buy bits and pieces here and there). Finally happy with the fleet, Giant TCR is the good bike, Cannondale Synapse disc now equipped with full mudguards for winter, and a Genesis Croix de Fer 853 that will be finished in the next week for gravel and possible bike packing.

fat bloke · 02-01-2021 3:39pm

I don't how I could possibly replicate 2020 in terms of consistency and consecutive days of training. When schools closed in March, all the way through to mid August I basically trained 2 out of every 3 days.
For the moment my 2021 goal is to take delivery of my shaggin Bowman frame I ordered early 12 months ago, get it built up and ride the damn thing.

07Lapierre · 02-01-2021 3:51pm

1. Annual Goal: 12000+k
2. Cycle somewhere other than Ireland( preferably Majorca)
3. Participate in more than one club league race.
4. Participate in one or more IVCA race.
5. Participate in at least one Sportive in Ireland.
6. Participate in a foreign Sportive (Amstel Gold would be nice)

Mercian Pro · 03-01-2021 7:02pm

Not playing this year, at least until I see how the next few months go

billyhead · 03-01-2021 7:46pm

Pointless having any plans or goals in the current environment. The only goal really is to get out more on the road bike.

nilhg · 03-01-2021 8:14pm

My youngsters bought me a rack and a set of Ortleib back roller panniers for Christmas ( I always had a sneaking suspicion they wanted to get rid of me

), I'd quite like to get a chance to test them out when the Covid situation permits, so goal 1 is a bikepacking trip somewhere.

Apart from that, things are so much up in the air that it's hard to pick any thing to aim at, I suppose goal 2 would be to be in decent enough condition to do myself justice whenever the IVCA or the local club league starts.

I bought a secondhand CX bike back in June mainly because I wanted to try more offroad stuff and new gravel bikes were impossible to get, even though I've been mostly confined to the local area I've got great use out of it, am loving the bog roads and canal banks, so goal 3 would be to expand my range a bit, some hilly gravel would be nice and maybe to upgrade to a "proper" gravel bike (with mounts for the rack for the bit of bikepacking)

wheelo01 · 03-01-2021 9:09pm

I did 2500 km in 2020, which isn't a lot for most around here, but I was happy enough.
2021 I hope to add at least another 1,000.
This is the first year i cycled all year round, i previously used rollers in bad weather, and hope to continue this again this year.

Weepsie · 04-01-2021 1:14am

Bring my still pretty new Genesis Tour de Fer on some type of very long overnighter somewhere

monkeyslayer · 04-01-2021 9:46am

Goal for me most years is 10,000km and 100,000m of climbing. Despite the lock downs etc still managed 9k and 80k respectively on the open road in 2020. Hope to cycle in Spain or France this year though I'm not so optimistic we'll be getting this covid thing under wraps anytime soon. However I'm 40 this year and I'm giving myself a new bike, so I'm very much looking forward to that, hopefully have it out west for a few weeks.

bazermc · 04-01-2021 11:04am

Keep it simple; Get out and cycle

Macy0161 · 04-01-2021 12:14pm

Renewed my CI Licence, and decided to go for a racing one. Selected M40 and it appears to have given me an A3!?! :eek:

dahat · 04-01-2021 1:56pm

Macy0161 wrote: »

Renewed my CI Licence, and decided to go for a racing one. Selected M40 and it appears to have given me an A3!?! :eek:

First license?

2021 Cycling Goals.

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