My #1 2024 S.M.A.R.T. Goal is to ride 4x per week... more specifically, one ride per week on each of my 4 current bikes. I hadn't ridden since Thanksgiving until this week but I just completed my fourth mid-day 30+ minute local ride of the week across 3 of my bikes so this week is a yes for 4 rides but a no for all 4 bikes. I kind of started this idea back in late summer/early fall 2023 and despite increasing my ride frequency I still failed at successfully completing a single 4 ride/4bike week. I think I got some weeks with 4 or more rides but without rotating through all four bikes. I didn't really intend to keep record last year so kind of failed at the measurement part but thinking I'll try to actually keep track this year and see the results.
Brian On Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 3:41:55 PM UTC-5 Brady Smith wrote: > Hi Toshi, > > Riding in Utah is indeed a gift. I mostly trade the bike for nordic skiing > in the winter, so I haven't ridden outside much of late, but riding up the > canyons never gets old. > > Our club is so small as to manage only a handful of rides each year, > though in the warmer months I can piece together a nice 300k out my front > door (downtown Salt Lake--Emigration Canyon--Big Mountain Pass--Mountain > Green--Trapper's Loop Road (past Snowbasin)--North Ogden Divide--Antelope > Island out to Fielding Garr Ranch--back to SLC). I've thought about doing > that as a 300+200 or whatever if I can't manage the club 600k this year, > but I've finally got everything on the calendar in a way that works with > the rest of our family obligations, so fingers crossed. > > Happy riding, > > Brady > On Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 1:31:56 PM UTC-7 ttoshi wrote: > >> Hey Brady, >> >> You live in a beautiful area! I've only been there in the winter to the >> ski resorts but imagine that it is amazing cycling there. >> >> I don't know if your local club has 300k + 300k or something like that, >> then you could practice the sleep thing. The way I approached the 600k is >> to ride 400k + 200k, so my practice was getting the 400k to a reasonable >> time where I could grab a few hours before starting the 200k after rest. >> I've done a few 600k events, but never a 1200k. It won't be this year, but >> I'm targeting the next Gold Rush Randonee in a couple of years. >> >> Have fun, >> Toshi in Oakland >> >> On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 10:34 AM Brady Smith <bradys...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> As an educator, I'm also a fan of S.M.A.R.T goals, probably more so than >>> my middle schoolers, though. >>> >>> In 2023 I managed to ride 200k, 300k, and 400k brevets. For 2024, I'm >>> planning on adding the 600k, in part because I've always wanted to do the >>> whole series, in part because I scored an entry for for LEL 2025, and I >>> need some practice riding, sleeping, then riding again. >>> >>> I'd also like to commit to more mountain biking and finally make it up >>> Little Cottonwood Canyon on the road bike, a feat I've never attempted due >>> to its fearsome reputation and it being just a bit farther away from home >>> than it's less fearsome sibling. >>> >>> Brady in SLC >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/86c3fde3-45c1-44e4-a9d1-7346c00e733dn%40googlegroups.com.
