How to Achieve Your Bike Riding Goals In 2020

It is easy to assume that owning the best women’s bike or mens hybrid bikes will contribute to your success or failure in achieving your bike riding goals in 2020. However, your success has more to do with you and not your equipment. Therefore, when creating your goals this year, consider the following eight tasks.  

Set Specific Objectives

Whether you and your friends ride city bikes, mountain bikes or racing bikes, you need to set specific objectives. Merely saying that you want to ride your bicycle more often is not specific enough. Try committing to several miles every week, or commit to riding a particular course.

Write It Down

While it may not seem important, writing down your goals is an excellent and visual way of being accountable. Take your objective and break it down into manageable parts. Acknowledge your progress toward these stepping stones in a journal, so you can see the real progress you are making.

Measure for Motivation

Do you find it challenging to stay focused during a bike ride? Try taking measurements while your riding. You can measure heart-rate, distance, time or power. By setting a goal or expectation for these measurements, you can focus your mind and stay focused and motivated.

Set Achievable Goals

The key to achieving your goals is to set yourself up for challenge and success. Being too easy on yourself will not motivate you or keep you energized with the process. However, creating goals that are too challenging is demeaning and demotivating as well. Therefore, it is about finding that happy middle ground where you are challenged and yet still capable.

Consider Your Interests

What are your interests when it comes to bike riding and exercise? Are you an outdoors person, a trail rider? Do you prefer city riding or racing? Are you more interested in indoor activities? It is necessary to find what you love and do that. Forcing yourself to do something you hate will only lead to a lack of motivation and follow-through.

Set Deadlines

Deadlines are necessary for meeting and keeping goals. Again, it is about accountability, even if you are only accountable to yourself. However, you may also find it useful to alert friends and family of your objectives and timelines. Having people in your corner, rooting for you and keeping you focused, is helpful when starting new routines.

Make Things Exciting

Achieving your bike riding goals is about staying motivated, and the best way to maintain motivation is by energizing and excite your routine. Sometimes the best way to add energy to your bike riding is to add a little friendly competition through races or fitness objectives, so give it a try.

Reconsider Your Routine

Last, reconsider your biking routine and goals. Putting figurative plans into action can lead to epiphanies. Perhaps your routine is too rigid or complicated. It is OK to re-evaluate and make a new plan.

Sticking to your goals in 2020 is not about the equipment; it is about setting realistic expectations and following through. However, having a world-class bike does make the experience a little more comfortable, so visit your favorite shop and find the right bike for your needs.