Maybe it’s not a list of events/adventures/experiences you want to have before you die, but what’s a list of 2 or 3 things you’d like to accomplish (athletically), before you hang it up?
For me,
I’ve done three of the things out of the “50 Places to Ride Before You Die” book. Basically do more of those.
I’m not a fan of the more ultra enduro themed events like 200+ miles of gravel. I’d rather get to use my threshold power at some point. I do not find it fun ONLY riding in low Z2 for 10 hours at a time. I wish Haute would return to the App Mountains again. Just not enough big money bucket list riders so they stopped that.
I find the perfect duration for a bike ride is about 3 hours. Great Z2 duration. I ‘can’ do 2 hours of sweetspot or 3 of tempo if I have to. So you can enjoy going ‘fast’.
It’s a Philly thing
Plus — I kinda know the Origin Story
I hate the words Bucket List makes it sound so cheap and Walmart like
I prefer
Great Adventures Personalized
Agreed - hence the quotes.
Maybe I’m too old to think bigger - or maybe that’s just an excuse.
I would like to race the great divide bike race.
sub 10. But time is running out. Just got 61 a couple of days ago…
Imminent adventures:
30 day bike packing adventure with my wife through the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains.
Climb l’Angliru and see what time I can get. That will be next year on vacation.
Bucket List:
Climb K2. I’ve never done that kind of mountaineering, though I’ve been to 6k meters. This is one thing I want to do, seems dangerous and unrealistic all at the same time. I can’t shake the thought though.
Imminent adventures
Nice band name
.
Mine is weirdly easy and event driven
Replace the “B” with an “F” and I have one of those.
I found one the other day that I made 5 years ago after doing my first Ironman
Races
Performances
I lost interest in IM and sold by tri bike after suffering too many cramps to count in the 100+ degree weather at CDA in 2021. So I probably need to cross a few things off my list
I’ve actually been struggling with this. I have checked most of mine off in the last 10 years. The ones left are reasonably out of reach (e.g. UTMB) or for one the event has unfortunately been cancelled. I’m looking for my next wave of big but achievable goals.
-bike Haleakala
-Kalalau trail (again, with wife)
-Via Ferrata
-Superior Hiking Trail through hike
It is constantly changing and I don’t consider it a “bucket” list. It is a list of things that give me direction and motivation.
When I was younger I had one with lots of traveling. I went to the pyramids, Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Great Wall of China, and Petra all in one year! I still want to fly to Beijing and travel by train through Mongolia and Russia to St. Petersburg. Or take a train ride trip across Canada.
Now, I’d like to do something with walking or trekking, like El Camino de Santiago. Or trekking to Everest Base Camp (spent a week in Nepal but never once considered extending time to do that!).
I’ve hiked the 4 day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, so even doing a 7-10 day version of that would be great.
Oh, and maybe a sub 5 minute mile would be good as a one-off goal.
For times:
Sub 12h IM (if i ever do an Ironman again when the kids are bigger)
Sub 1:30 HM
Sub 40 10k (in 2 weeks i hope).
For races/adventures:
Roth (If i ever do an IM again)
Some 100km/100 miles ultra run would be fun to try.
MTB race long distance race
Some Marathon major
I really don’t want to put names on the events. (Dirty Kanza, NYC marathon, leadville etc.) as getting in is too hard and i don’t want to train a lot and then not have a goal race.
I think of these as “things at the current moment I’d probably like to do” but aren’t necessarily goals or even necessarily important to me at the moment. Also, if not otherwise specified, they’re all qualified with “in a particular place, climate, season, context that I’d like” (ideally nonprofit or for charity, in a relatively cold climate, wilderness):
Thanks to a World Triathlon event, I checked these boxes:
Complete a 140.6 with hours to spare… compete wearing my national uniform… compete overseas.
That leaves a current challenge:
Compete in Powerman Zofingen. I have qualified in the past but couldn’t make the trip.
I do wonder how many people have completed World Championships (World Triathlon) in BOTH long course triathlon and duathlon.
I have some bike packing stuff I’d like to try as well (pacific coast highway, maybe cross country), have a potential interest in ultra endurance bike racing, but need to find the right event and time in my life to wade in.