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Jesus, you slackers, it's mid-February and I kept waiting for someone else to start this thread, but here we are on a Friday afternoon, I'm burned out and fried from work, so fuck it, let's get the ball rolling here. :lol:
What are YOUR goals, in whatever sports or for whatever aspects of your overall health, for 2021?
Mine
And, low-key stretch goal that I'm thinking of (and some aggressive early season training has left me with a tender right quad/hip flexor so I'm very much on the fence here), taking an attempt at Everesting, picking a climbing segment and riding repeats on it until I've ascended 29,029 feet, the height of Mt. Everest. I'm leery on this one, as optimistically it's going to take me around 14 hours, I think, if I do it on a fairly steep segment... but I turn 40 this year, the girlfriend wants kids, so if I'm ever going to do something like this, it's probably either this year or next.
What about you all?
What are YOUR goals, in whatever sports or for whatever aspects of your overall health, for 2021?
Mine
- Break 50 minutes on the North Adams side of Greylock (current: 52:47, on a strong attempt, this will be hard) and the Lanesboro side of Greylock (current: 51:39 and I bonked pretty hard in the final two miles, this should be a formality, just a matter of getting out there on a day I can do a max effort attempt)
- Break 10 minutes on the Wachusett Visitor Center to Summit segment (current: 10:49 - tough but doable)
- Ride 5,000 miles, same as 2019 and 2020
- Break 4.0w/kg, which I just missed last season.
- Race the Mount Washington Hill Climb, if I can get a spot
- Improve my PR on the App Gap, on the Allen Clark Hill Climb segment - currently 41:15, when I was fighting a headwind and pretty shattered from an all-out assault summiting the Lincoln Gap so again this one's just a matter of getting out there with neutral wind on some day I'm not already broken, and I should be able to do some real damage to that PR.
And, low-key stretch goal that I'm thinking of (and some aggressive early season training has left me with a tender right quad/hip flexor so I'm very much on the fence here), taking an attempt at Everesting, picking a climbing segment and riding repeats on it until I've ascended 29,029 feet, the height of Mt. Everest. I'm leery on this one, as optimistically it's going to take me around 14 hours, I think, if I do it on a fairly steep segment... but I turn 40 this year, the girlfriend wants kids, so if I'm ever going to do something like this, it's probably either this year or next.
What about you all?