Hi Team,

Let's chat about your 2022 goals. From a cycling perspective, what would you like to achieve during this year?

It can be placing in a race, or a ride, or weekly benchmark, a Prospect Park jersey, some suggested their first century, others upgrading categories, for some of us it will be the cyclocross national championships in Connecticut.. 

To help get us started, this is a very preliminary Calendar of the next few races, events, and even long rides I plan on doing:

• Friday March 4 Look Sharp weekly rides start (weather permitting)
• Sunday March 14 L&C 1st Prospect Park Race 
• Sunday March 27 1st Castelli Prospect Park Race
• Sunday April 10 The Mix Tape Gravel  (I have one extra entry I can transfer)
• Sunday April 17 Let's go ride in Massachusetts
• Sunday May 15 Farmer's Daugther Gravel Grinder
• July TBD Swiss Italian Alps or French Basque rides
• Sat August 20 D2R2
• Sat August 27 Vermont Overland

Then, cyclocross, ending in the goal A event:

• December 15ish Cyclocross Nationals Masters

This will be my first season doing serious racing, so my race goals are pretty simple: I just want to learn as much as possible and to get better and more competing. 

Even new rider goals can be specific. The more specific your goals, the more likely you are to achieve them.

Here are some to choose from:

- make the break
- don't get dropped from the break
- top 10 in a KOM/Sprint points
- lead out a teammate
- finish a race with an average power 20% under FTP
- race a TT
- finish a stage race

My turn to enter my goals of the year.

Construction in my kitchen seriously affected my training. It's safe to say that I am only starting my season now. I have been doing a good amount of cross training: weight lifting, single speed mountain biking and even Jiu Jitsu! I think this works for me as I don't believe I am able to follow a training plan for too long. Also, while the gravel races look like tons of fun, I have obligations at the beginning of the year that prevent me from logging enough miles.

So, I will focus on peaking for a late summer mountain bike race and peak again for late fall cross.

Below are my goals for the season (I feel more accountable now that I write them):

- Reach a FTP of 310 watts
- Race Mountain Bike and feel comfortable enough to upgrade to cat 2
- Leg press 750 Lbs ( I crossed that one of the list already)
- Start cross season below 185Lbs, hoping to finish the season below 190. That's a 15 lbs weight loss
- Score at least one point in Cat 4 CX.

Those are the races I intend to do:

- May 29 NYSMTB 1
- June 18 Challenger XC
- June 26 AC Daughtry
- July 31 NYSMTB 3
- August 7 AC Daughtry
- September 12 Rocky Point 50

then Cyclocross:

- peak for Wawayanda (usually around early November)
- do the NECX series
- do well at the LICX series late December hoping they will take place again.