How's you're Yearly goals coming along???

No goal set but I’m way behind where I want to be fitness wise due to working on my thesis and spending time with the baby since January. The thesis is complete and hopefully I’ll be back working on fitness from this weekend.

Well I was really happy with progress to date. Goal was to do the Orwell, Mick Byrne, be competitive in the club league and in good shape for a week in the mountains in Spain in September.
Knocked a minute off my 16km TT last week , kept the mileage nicely ticking over and generally just felt good. Started the Orwell Randonee on Saturday, was going to use it as a test to see how far I had really come.

*** Strava Monkey Alert***. On the 54 segments I covered in the first 85 km, I set PBs on 32 of them, the vast majority of those were climbing segments too. So yeah, very happy up til then.
Then I crashed and have enough damage to keep me in a sling for 4 weeks and off the bike for however long it takes afterwards. Bit of a bummer tbh but I'll be on the turbo as soon as I can to try and keep some of the cardio there and hopefully I'll be some ways right for my trip to Spain.
Last year I lost a month with a leg injury and 3 weeks away on holidays plus the winter was sh1te so realistically I shouldn't be much worse off if all goes OK over the next couple of weeks.

I got a notion after Easter to do more than just commuting cycling , first was around 50K , last week 98K . If its dry Sat going to do Glendalough Blessington which is around 115K , final goals are 150K in Wicklow down to Aughavannagh and around, and a couple of ~200k flat ones. Stripping out holliers there are only 9 weekends to end of Aug.

Goals for 2019

90kg racing weight for June/July time. Currently 94 kgs, WIP!
Top 20 in an A3 Race - 10th place, 1 Cycle Ireland point
10,000 km road work 4.999 to date, ahead of sechdule
More road less turbo where possible
Try win a club league race during the Summer 2 x 3rd places to dat

All in all happy so far but adjustment of goals for remainder of the year below.

Top 3 in an A3 Race
Win a club League race
88 kgs end of year weight to carry forward to next season
FTP of 400 watts

weight is an interesting one, my ideal weight is around 73kg but I have the devil of a job to get it under 80kg. Not having to carry an extra 7 or 8 kg would be nice

silverharp wrote: »

weight is an interesting one, my ideal weight is around 73kg but I have the devil of a job to get it under 80kg. Not having to carry an extra 7 or 8 kg would be nice

Man, if could shift 8kgs and hold same power i'd be over the moon. To get the balance right between bike life and real life weight is tricky the older you get.

Mine is about on schedule although I haven't got out much this month due to injury and also that we are in the process of temporarily moving house til October.

Should hit 4,500km this weekend, have upped the target from 7500 km to 8,500km, still ahead of revised target .
And i refuse to publicly declare my height, weight, age , hair coverage on head ,other than

I wish i was taller, lighter, younger with a full head of hair.

CramCycle wrote: »

If your the high end of normal, we may all give up.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-being-overweight-means-you-live-longer-the-way-scientists-twist-the-facts-10158229.html

CramCycle wrote: »

Kind of fits in with the widely held view, not mentioned, that the BMI scale is a crock of sh1t. Those studies mentioned would have been far more useful if they took fat percentage and used that for groupings. This is where linguistics are twisted in science. They use the word overweight in relation to the definition set out by the BMI, which in many cases when using a different metric does not hold up. Until recently i was overweight by the BMI scale, and many elite athletes (not cyclists) were obese. But use almost any other accepted marker for weight, I am in the normal range, and those athletes who are obese by BMI standards are all of a sudden lean/underweight.

The BMI scale is a real bugbear of mine and it grates on me as a researcher that it is still so widely used and published.

Getting a bit touchy fatso.....

CramCycle wrote: »

All my opinion, not fact:
BMI can be a poor metric to use, as it really applies to a small percentage of the population in being accurate. You might be better aiming for a specific fat % and using a skin folds test or similar which are astonishingly accurate. My BMI has me borderline obese but my body fat percentage via a DEXA scan was 18%, now down to 13% (both of which are well within recommended healthy levels). TLDR don't let BMI get you down, it is horrendously misleading.

Waist to height measurement can also be a bad choice as anybody shape outside the normal can have you under or over by a long shot, in my opinion.

Do you feel fitter, maybe you are putting on muscle mass or maybe you are eating more?

I havnt looked into fat % apart from scales at home that gives a measure but that probably isn’t reliable. The BMI is a weaker measure for sure which is why I feel the waist % is superior and is an easy target to monitor. There maybe exceptions to it but I’d expect the more athletic someone is the fewer there should be, outside of Strongmen types and even there how healthy is it to carry around the extra weight? Additional stress on the heart etc?

Fitness goals are on going so I havnt run out of road yet, I started strength training this year so I probably have another 6-9 months of easy “gainz” to make. Im throwing the ageing clock into reverse for now ;-) its all good. The longer distance cycling should be a good fat burner going forward especially if I keep adding to the activity.

On the food front there probably is a certain change in focus so could be eating more than last year, hopefully later in the year it all comes together , strength gains will mean more muscle , less fat so should be going in the right direction.