So a few year specific things.
– Complete at least one Strava Challenge per month. This should give me a bit of focus and motivation on those days that it’s needed. The introduction of monthly climbing challenges is a good call from my point of view and likely to be something I look to do each month. Managed to bag January on the last day. Feb is going to be hard as we’ve just had a crazy hot weekend which stopped riding. Might have to go for the 100Km Fondo badge to stay on track.
– Ride more than 100km more than once this year. I ride plenty of 50km+ rides throughout the year. I ride a fair number of 80km+ rides. But just the one ride over 100km was a bit of a poor show. I’d like to say 6 for the year, as that seems realistic with family commitments and the like, but not set in stone. At least 3, spread over the year would be good though.
– Average ride distance. Given that a total number of Km is a tricky goal with no commuting this year, I want to try and keep my average ride distance up. Again, being realistic with the fact that I get only one day a week to ride on average, I’m going to go for 60km/ride. I’m currently sitting just under that (59.167), so it seems achievable.
– Average ride elevation. Same as distance really. I have been riding with a loose idea that if I can, over 1000m is a good goal (when not a commute or down to the shop etc). I’m upping this to 1200m. Currently doing well, sitting at 1274.
In relation to the original goals, now that I’ve got the house move done etc, I’m going to start checking out some of the Super Dirtonneur route, with an eye towards that. Similarly, some of the stuff from home to the Mother-in-Law’s over at Warooka.
And I need to get bikes sorted… more on that soon!
Riding Out in Woop Woop 