2012 Meatspace Goals

1/08/12 #241

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There is perhaps no better obfuscation than covering for a day of no riding by describing goals for 2012. These are my meatspace goals; subjects for emotional, spiritual, and/or intellectual growth are left for another time.

My last year's goal was 3500 miles and I rode 4500 miles, which was great. On reflection it also missed the point, because I ended the year weighing 240 pounds, most of the year I weighed 230 and that's just not good for a Type2 Diabetic who wants to keep his toes.

I've fallen into the Fallacy of Faulty Quasi-Metrics; I seized on measuring something that was easily quantified, somewhat related to the desired outcomes, and enjoyable.

My 2012 goals will be primarily weight-driven and secondarily mileage-driven. Although 2011 was a big leap in mileage for me, since I have just retired my likelihood of achieving the same mileage is pretty good, and I would think that I could easily do better - what with not working and that.


So, my 2012 goals will be

• 215 pound weight for six months
• becoming an intentional eater
• 6000 bike miles (outside only, trainers don't count)

My sub-goals will be

• quantification and review of my eating
• discipline in evening snacking
• less Diet Coke, more H₂0
• Riding around the Chesapeake Bay OR riding the Natchez Trace
• Doing several multi-day rides
• Riding Pgh-DC at least once
• spending some/more time on my road bike
• experimenting with bicycle camping

My approach will include:

• riding with others when I can
• promiscuously joining group rides
• updating the LHT drivetrain in either Spring or Fall
• attempt to use the ubiquitious smartphone as some sort of Quantified Self-type (QS) asset
• striving to avoid divorce

So, nowhere in my goals does the word "diabetes" occur. I want to be defined by exercise and nutrition and healthiness, not by diabetes or diagnosis, and my (hitherto) implicit assumption is that if I do a good job on weight and exercise, keeping the diabetes into a somewhat normal range will follow.

Achieving this would be will be wonderful.

Mileage Numbers on a Binary Day (10/01/11) : An Accounting

10/01/11 #230

So, end of September, end of 3rd quarter.
It rained yesterday, rained today, promises to rain through Tuesday.
The good news is, the ten day forecast offers some promise of a string of nice days so I've spent a rainy day scheming over my short-term future, and fooling with the mounts for my lights.

I thought I'd use the nice stretch for a DC-Pittsburgh ride, which I haven't done this year, but so far the logistics of transport and company to ride with have eluded me.

My next plan is to do two S36O (sub-thirty-six-hour-overnights), in other words doing a two-day, spending a night at home, and then doing another two day. It saves me a day's hotel, lets me visit the LovedOnes, and still lets me get a bit of mileage and some new sights. So that's a plan, which of course rarely survives contact with the enemy, the world, the weather, the budget, and/or events. But it's good to have a plan.

10/01/11 Week 37

this week: 69 miles

[3rd quarter: 1573 miles] [4th quarter: 0 miles]

2011: 3264 miles

STATUS REPORT.
Above goal on mileage. Not meeting goal on weight.
Which is a fair summary of my habits and outcomes.

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So I'm at 3264 miles in 2011. That's a good year's riding, but I think I will attempt to get to 4000 miles, I've never done that before.

To get there, I'll need 750 miles in 13 weeks, 58 miles a week. That's consistent with my last few weeks of light riding, but the weather is destined to deteriorate (which is pejorative, I suppose I should say it's going to change). I hope to get a chunk of miles during the teased, upcoming nice streak of weather.