iman29
Well-Known Member
You beat me to it
Motivate Yourself for 2026 Thread
- Thread starter Pearl
- Start date
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
TAWSS.
-We're doing a Hawaii trip in April and I'm going to do the climb up Haleakala with an arbitrary goal of 5 hours. Climbing on the road is probably my biggest strength on a bike so I'm looking forward to it, but this is obviously a unique thing so we'll see how it goes.
-Continue getting faster and slightly lighter. I've been semi consistent on the TrainerRoad stuff for around 3 years and I'm up ~30W since I got back into it, but still down probably around 20W from my peak just over a decade ago. I was also something like 20lb lighter then, but I'm 5'11 and 45 years old and I don't really want to be 142lb at this point. My target is more in the 155lb range which I think is feasible and people won't be suspecting that I have a terminal illness at that weight.
-Hitting the Big Sugar/Little Sugar combo. I was supposed to do it this year with @Cassinonorth but some ridiculous health BS following a minor crash in July ruled me out.
-Hit up a few XC/endurance/maybe enduro events through the year
-Do a DH trip or two
-Spend more time doing trail building and maintenance
-Get out to a few more of the JORBA rides/events
-I set the same goal every year (but I really mean it this time!), which is to progress my technical riding. I've done a few riding clinics and continue to work on stuff, but there are areas where I am...not good. I struggle to keep momentum in some of the rockier stuff, avoid terrain and features within my ability level and have settled for rolling over jumps and going around drops for close to two decades at Mt Creek. It's not getting any better with age so it feels increasingly like now or never.
-Continue getting faster and slightly lighter. I've been semi consistent on the TrainerRoad stuff for around 3 years and I'm up ~30W since I got back into it, but still down probably around 20W from my peak just over a decade ago. I was also something like 20lb lighter then, but I'm 5'11 and 45 years old and I don't really want to be 142lb at this point. My target is more in the 155lb range which I think is feasible and people won't be suspecting that I have a terminal illness at that weight.
-Hitting the Big Sugar/Little Sugar combo. I was supposed to do it this year with @Cassinonorth but some ridiculous health BS following a minor crash in July ruled me out.
-Hit up a few XC/endurance/maybe enduro events through the year
-Do a DH trip or two
-Spend more time doing trail building and maintenance
-Get out to a few more of the JORBA rides/events
-I set the same goal every year (but I really mean it this time!), which is to progress my technical riding. I've done a few riding clinics and continue to work on stuff, but there are areas where I am...not good. I struggle to keep momentum in some of the rockier stuff, avoid terrain and features within my ability level and have settled for rolling over jumps and going around drops for close to two decades at Mt Creek. It's not getting any better with age so it feels increasingly like now or never.