New Year resolutions thread.

[Macie_UK 0]

Despite many people only resolving to not make any resolutions (that's been me for the last decade ) It's that time of year when plenty of folk decide to really really try and make a positive change.

For some it will mean attending aversion therapy to overcome their fear of hard luggage, while others will try and wean themselves off of an obsessive cleaning fetish

So what are you guys and girls resolving for 2013?

[Oldfart 0]

Losing some weight and getting a better golf handicap.

I understand Stue has agreed to attend 'topbox aversion therapy' classes with Dave as the teacher

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

1/ to cut the booze right down or even out for a while.
2/loose some weight and get myself fitter
3/ beat my 5,000 miles i done this year on the king.
4/ Be a bit nicer to people and try not to let things get to me ,
5/ have a great time at the TT

[smilinjack 0]

Well I managed to lose a stone and a half this year, so I want to try & build on that by increasing my fitness. Just fitted a new bottom bracket on my bike & set up the gearchange today in readiness for some pedalling. I also want to get walking on some bigger hills next year when the days get longer.

[flange 0]

Got to loose at least 3 stone.
Cut back on the booze from 100 units to 20 a week.
Do more than my usual 1000 miles on the bike

[dick65 0]

do more fell walking (used to do loads)
beat my 8000 miles this year on the bikes in 2013
lose 2lb to get down to 11&1/2 stone
sure theres summat else but forgotten

[Chadatious 0]

get out the hotel i work at and try ge tmore hours at the bodyshop

[trebor4460 0]

Train harder, defo diet better... Put more miles in the saddle, and pay as much off as I can on the remainder of my mortgage..

[flange 0]

@dick65 wrote:

do more fell walking (used to do loads)
beat my 8000 miles this year on the bikes in 2013
lose 2lb to get down to 11&1/2 stone
sure theres summat else but forgotten

8k
2lbs.
You did well this year lol

[Stue11 0]

Try and get over the fear of luggage racks...... NEVER...

just keep up me gym work and keep lifting apart from that..oh and perhaps more miles on the clock

[Macie_UK 0]

Well, in a break with tradition I've got loads, but all the usual stuff:

1. Lose 25Kg - through dieting rather than amputation!
2. Get fitter - nice and ambiguous that, note the lack of definitive goal posts
3. Get hold of a cheapo track bike and do a few 'slow and wobbly' days
4. Get away for a half decent jaunt on the bike somewhere
5. Finish all the little odd jobs around the house - you know, like having floors and walls
6. Play more golf
7. Have a decent 'relaxing' holiday
8. Stop letting things that don't affect me wind me up
9. Return to gainful employment
10.Actually plan [1] a big (well, for me) bike trip for 2014


Lots of other stuff that I'd like to do, but they all fall in the 'unlikely' category. Will be interesting to check back next year to see what we actually got done

[1] Apparently that's what grown-ups do, rather than just decide on a whim that I'm going somewhere next week [2]
[2] Which has nearly always worked out OK [3]. Mostly. But could always have been better.
[3] If Mike mentions being a small child and having to kip outside on some pallets round the back of a truck stop near the Portuguese border one cold May, just tell him that it was an 'adventure'.

[Mike_63 0]

@Macie_UK wrote:

Well, in a break with tradition I've got loads, but all the usual stuff:

1. Lose 25Kg - through dieting rather than amputation!
2. Get fitter - nice and ambiguous that, note the lack of definitive goal posts
3. Get hold of a cheapo track bike and do a few 'slow and wobbly' days
4. Get away for a half decent jaunt on the bike somewhere
5. Finish all the little odd jobs around the house - you know, like having floors and walls
6. Play more golf
7. Have a decent 'relaxing' holiday
8. Stop letting things that don't affect me wind me up
9. Return to gainful employment
10.Actually plan [1] a big (well, for me) bike trip for 2014


Lots of other stuff that I'd like to do, but they all fall in the 'unlikely' category. Will be interesting to check back next year to see what we actually got done

[1] Apparently that's what grown-ups do, rather than just decide on a whim that I'm going somewhere next week [2]
[2] Which has nearly always worked out OK [3]. Mostly. But could always have been better.
[3] If Mike mentions being a small child and having to kip outside on some pallets round the back of a truck stop near the Portuguese border one cold May, just tell him that it was an 'adventure'.

Adventure?? Bloody adventure?!?!

How about the bit about gettting out of the country, going through Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, France, Turning around at the Andorra border, and contemplating a trip to Morocco?
All of which would have been fine if my passport wasnt 12 months out of date!

[haveugot1 0]

A lot more work in the gym, and hopefully a lot more miles on the bike.

[madcarper 0]

try to have a bit more time for me my family and friends.

[Macie_UK 0]

@Mike_63 wrote:

Adventure?? Bloody adventure?!?!

How about the bit about gettting out of the country, going through Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, France, Turning around at the Andorra border, and contemplating a trip to Morocco?
All of which would have been fine if my passport wasnt 12 months out of date!

How was I to know that kid's passports don't last ten years?

[bladerunner 0]

drink more beer,ride my bike more and just have more fun doesnt matter how you go about it just enjoy your life..