2022 Plans (to go with the 2021 Reflections thread)

[slarge]

Inspired by the 2021 Reflections thread, and as a "up yours" to the ongoing Covid/Lockdown/WFH/virus poor show, what are your plans and dreams for 2022?

I'll start:

Giving up work at the end of Jan to rebalance work and home life
More time with OH and dogs
Tour Divide in June
Wales Coast to Coast (and back) at some point - probably April
More social riding (with the local club and with people off here I hope)
New Zealand next Oct/Nov (to see daughter who has just moved there)
Italy in August (for son's wedding)
And enjoying life

Dreams:
to become happier, and stay healthy

[fatbikephil]

Bivvy a month again
A tour based on the Scottish bit of the great north trail.
A week in the Yorkshire dales camped at some suitable base in order to drink nice beer and do normal mountainbiking
BB300
Mebbes the Borders 350 but only if its nice weather.
Got a ski holiday in Austria planned for January but given the latest panic I suspect it will be canned. Relieved as I didn't fancy spending the whole week in a hazmat suit and it gives me another weeks holiday for biking.

[ScotRoutes]

Celebrate my wife defeating cancer.

[lune ranger]

Celebrate my wife defeating cancer.

[fatbikephil]

Celebrate my wife defeating cancer.

Very glad to hear that Colin, I'd picked up from some of your comments recently that she was being treated for cancer so excellent news

[lune ranger]

Walk the two moors way with my kids and train them to do so.
Do a home spun Super Randoneur: 200, 300, 400, 600 and 1200km ‘all road’ routes as ITT’s at monthly intervals starting in March.

[woodsmith]

A few routes I've got planned around the north of England in the spring then GDMBR northbound , Western Wildlands southbound and Baja Divide. Or another year stuck in the UK when Covid mutates yet again.....

[Bearbonesnorm]

That is great news Colin, cause for celebration indeed

As always my head is a whirl of ideas, thoughts and notions - some will come to pass and others will simply fall out of my ears when I'm asleep, never to be seen again. However, in 2022, I'd like to pull my finger out somewhat and hopefully rediscover the very simple joy of riding, eating, sleeping. It's something I seem to have lost over the last 18 months - I know where I put it but I just need to go and find it.

There is also a matter of piloting the worlds fastest CB250 to a world record and therefor proving that it is indeed the worlds fastest CB250.

[FLV]

Quite simple really.

Take an actual step towards simplifying my life.
Get healthier and lighter
Enjoy riding my bike
Stop letting things that don't matter wind me up.

[ScotRoutes]

My plan is to celebrate. We're not there yet. Probably another 6 months.

After that, make up for "lost time"!

[The Cumbrian]

I'm 50 next year and my eldest son's 18, and I want to mark it by either walking the Camino de Santiago or trekking in Morocco with him. It all depends on how much time I can get off work.
I have a few routes in my head where I get on the train and cycle home that I want to do.
I want to continue losing weight (two stone off this year, another two or three next year) and generally get fitter.

[yourguitarhero]

I'm going to walk to Milan for a coffee

[Lazarus]

Not to ruin the year with a crash* that left me missing the entire summer pretty much and still not back to full fitness ... I had to ride a child's bike and could only do 15 ish miles once a week if I was lucky

Please just let me be fit to ride in 2022

* Very bad luck not even my fault./ Unavoidable


Best wishes to Scots and his family.

[UnderTheRadars]

My plan is to celebrate. We're not there yet. Probably another 6 months.

After that, make up for "lost time"!

Everything crossed for her. My mum just been told that she has cancer, so hope we can both celebrate cancer being defeated next year

[jobro]

An Turas Mor in late May

Dolomiti Ronda in July

A couple of weekend "gatherings" like Woods Cyclery's Grand Rando, or maybe Grinduro.

2023 already planned

[ton]

to hopefully get fixed and out of AF again.
i was having a great 2021 until i reverted back in november.
if i dont get fixed i will keep plodding away at 9mph.


Colin, fingers crossed for your wife mate, and you obviously.

[PaulB2]

For the first time in a few years, I don't have many cycling plans for next year. A combination of injuries, family commitments and bike supply issues pretty much destroyed my plans for this year and it doesn't look like my time will free up much in the near future making it harder to justify buying a new frame. I'm hoping to get to the WRT next year, I'm hoping to build up to a half marathon run wise and I've got a walking holiday pencilled in with a mate for next September.

[Richard G]

I'm just getting started cancelling most of my plans for next year. I don't see myself being able to get my fitness back in the short term (still struggling with COVID symptoms) so there's not really any point aiming to do what I'd originally planned. Maybe I'll try again in 2023.

I would still like to try and do Trans Balkan, but I definitely wouldn't be doing it quickly if I did do it.

Non cycling related, I originally had trips planned (US / Europe / Japan) for the start of 2022, but Omicron has made all those look very unlikely.

[In Reverse]

• A big overseas ride solo, maybe one of the Spanish routes - Altravesur's been waving at me for a few years.
• A big overseas ride with other people would be nice too. Veneto Trail might happen at last...
• All the domestic stuff usually just seems to fall into place - Jenn Ride/YD200 or 300/BB200 or 300/Moors 100/etc
• Big Bear might be something to aim for if there's a suitable weather and time window

[Keith74]

Have had plans for each year and never really achieved them so next year will be nice and simple.

To reignite the love for cycling and wild spaces I once had.
To just get on the bike and see where I end up. Less organising and planning and more cycling hopefully would be a great outcome for 2022.

[FLV]

[*]A big overseas ride with other people would be nice too. Veneto Trail might happen at last...

I may be up for that one if the dates work

[Charliecres]

I need to pull my finger out and do some serious planning. For the first time in decades I have time to do some bigger trips, so an off-road end-to-end of the British mainland seems a good place to start.

[ootini]

Changing job... in two days actually. Quitting what feels like a rather toxic work culture, for what I hope may be less stressful and consuming.
In 2022 I hope to:
Finally get to a WRT.
Lose 16kg in weight.
Do the trans Cambrian Way.
Do the KAW.
Do the Hebridean Way.
Id like to do that Swedish event/route too, but not sure if I'd be biting off more than I can chew...
Be sociable and go on bikepacking trips with other people, potentially other boners.
Take my son on more trips.
Be a better human.

[Verena]

Feels a bit deja vu, still some things that have been cancelled or postponed due to covid...or I just didn't make it there...
Elan Valley road run, Long Course weekend
Taunus bikepacking

Otherwise, not going to book anything else, just try and go out there on my bike and enjoy, try and get the balance right with family life, but yes would love to ride more and further...

Had a Slovenia holiday booked in the spring but just cancelled that, because of covid.

A cottage for a week in Elan valley, in March when at least I can be sure the weather will be foul.

I'll also be 50 next year, so yeah will want to celebrate that...

[barney]

My main plan is not to make any plans... for the past couple of years irrespective of Covid I've made plans for everything including completing Bikepacking events, walking and cycling challenges on my Garmin app, BAM and even losing weight etc.

Next year I'm going to have a different approach of just doing things at my own pace. I can always remember a few years ago after 10 BAM in a row I didn't do November because the weather was crap. It felt such a relief making the decision that meant I bivvy'd because I wanted to and not to "tick a box"

Appreciate i may be in the minority but I'm fine with that.