2022 Goals
Edit: bad at math… 310W for 4.0W/kg
I retired this fall (yay!), but it’s led to me moving my workouts to the morning, which means I’m consuming calories far earlier than I was in the past, and being constantly hungry for the next 12 hours until bedtime, and that has led to putting on weight. I was already higher than i wanted to be, so I need to figure out how to lose that weight and keep it down. I am never successful with the “train well and diet at the same time” approach, so I’m seriously considering just dropping any cycling goals other than putting in very high mileage to drop weight and then worrying about structured training after that. That would make my one and only A goal of 2022 being “finally getting my diet and weight under control”.
After 10+ years of almost no exercise other than cycling, I started using Dialed Health a few months ago. I’ve been very happy with the results I’m seeing from the kettlebell program, so 2 strength workouts a week is my next big goal.
I’ve got a few gravel races already lined up, but I think I’ll just earn the participation trophies rather than race, in order to stick to that A goal.
Finally, a huge part of retiring fairly early was wanting to travel more and ride/hike in new and beautiful places. This fall I hit Boulder and Bentonville. I need to start lining up more of that for 22.
I think she’s on a loser there.
New bathroom won’t make you any faster, or any cleaner ,for that matter 
I think I have the capacity for 350 FTP so I want to get there. It’s a stretch goal for sure I’ve been hovering 310-330 most of this year.
Weight: was 180 most of in season this past year. I wanna do 175 but mostly focusing on reducing body fat more so than total mass. If I don’t get there but power improves, I’m not too worried.
No more needs to be said!! What’s your process goals for this 
For 2022 I want to be healthier. To reach that goal at age 53 I need to quit crashing my MTB and lose weight. To quit crashing my MTB I just need to ride within my capabilities and realize it’s better to live to ride another day. My latest crash was caused by trying to get maximum air time on a jump and one of my feet unclipped on the landing. To lose weight I just need to cut down on my portion sizes and cut back on the alcohol…no special diets necessary. I’m 5’10" and currently weigh 180 pounds. I’ve had my best results on the bike at around 162-165 pounds in the past as I carry a bit of muscle from weight training in my youth.
I had this realization a few years ago too. I don’t hit the crazy stuff any more. I just ride around or walk over if I have to. I don’t care if my friends give me shit. I’ll still be riding in my 70s if I can. The odds of that go way down if I feel the need to do crazy things every time someone says “send it” or I watch a YouTube video that makes me want to be sponsored by Red Bull.
My goal is to qualify for USAT nationals in my age group at the sprint distnace, and because that depends more on who shows up to the races I’ve chosen, my measurable goals to try and hit that are below.
5 w/kg. That means losing 2kg and gaining 20w in FTP. I think I can hit that in the first half of the year.
I put on a lot of weight due to life stresses over the past year. Let’s hope 2022 is better than 20/21!!
Outcome goal: Lose 50 lbs and gain 50W to perform well at my A race at the end of July (Rooted Vermont) and also at the Pan Mass Challenge in early August.
Process goals:
Easy right? 
that’ll lead to faster on the bike which I absolutely love.
My 2022 goal is to get my W/kg over 4.2 and to be able to say the whats-best-in-life Conan line on my middle aged group rides. I plan to do it by being more consistent than ever in training and keeping my diet and sleeping on the spot. 
This was/is my grand plan for almost every season recently, and it fails miserably come April or May with the arrival of fair weather unstructured outside rides.
My 2022 goals feel like a good mix of qualitative and quantitative, they should be mostly fun and motivating.
Words to live by, and live well for sure.
For a little specificity, I’ll add “Don’t die at Unbound” to that list before posting it on the fridge. Because that’s my real goal for 2022 
Having thought about this, I’m now going to nail my colours to the mast.
Tried to make these SMART targets that focus on process goals - time to get on it now!
I’m in for writing down the random thoughts I’ve had in my head!
Main Goal:
-Sub 10 hour SM 100 attempt
Secondary Goal
-Carry improved fitness/better body composition into CX season
How I will achieve:
-Focus on process rather than outcome
-Consistently stay on mid volume training plan
-Minimum of two full body strength workouts a week
-Minimum of 15 mins of Daily mobility work
-Be more consistent with my diet… which unfortunately means less beer. I tend to stick to a healthy well rounded diet until I have a few beers with the boys… then I eat like a dump truck . The goal is to only have a few drinks no more than 1 day a week.
I’m hoping I can get to a new level of fitness this upcoming year, and am very hungry to do so as I just got on my first shop team… and I wanna be super rad.
The dust has (sort of) settled on my 2021 now following my (cancelled-after being rescheduled from October) A-Race two weeks ago.
I’m going to put some goals out there now for 2022 for (a sense of) accountability.
1)I’d like to see my FTP reach 320W - the number that was my first TR FTP (due to Virtual Power). I’ve had a sense of stagnation having never seen my Career PR’s/Power Curve. It looks like I am in fact faster, but I’d like to work towards removing all doubt.
2)Nail my A-Race in October. 100km (mate’s trying to convince me to do the 170km) technical XCM race. This means going faster in terms of Power, and also improving the segment times on the technical/down segments.
Ways I’m going to achieve this.
•I am going to try and increase my Base volume, either literally by moving to the HV SSB plans, or nailing the additional endurance sessions.
•I am going to again focus on the key Workouts during build and reduce additional riding stress.
•Keep tackling more difficult MTB trails. Spending time on Grade Five trails has really altered my perspective when it comes to hitting the three’s and four’s that are in my races.