SOME FUN CYCLING GOALS

By Drew Ellison

At our last BIKES Club meeting, we had a program about setting some cycling goals for the year. "But wait!", you say. “I don’t want to set any goals, I just want to have fun and enjoy riding my bike.” Wonderful! So maybe you want to set some goals around things that make riding your bike fun.

Here are some fun goals and some just-plain-fun things you could try.

• Stop at at least one new-to-you coffee shop every month.
• Try to spot at least 1 bird per mile of your ride. In a 20 mile ride, look for 20 birds.
• Ride one mile without going faster than 7 MPH. Easy? Then try 5 MPH. Then 3 MPH.
• Unclip one foot and see how far you can ride. Then try the other foot. It’s harder than it sounds.
• Take a sandwich and stop for lunch at a different lake every week during the summer months. And don’t repeat the sandwiches.
• Create some Strava art. If you don’t know what that is, just google Cycling Strava Art.

You get the idea. Be creative and set some fun cycling goals.

Rivendell Bicycle Works just published a piece on a fun metric - the Pedal:Hang ratio. Maybe you will want to start tracking this and see how you “improve your metric” throughout the year.

 A bike ride metric that's fun to think about

Whether you set goals or not, smile and wave at passing cyclists. That alone might just bring some fun others.

Keep on pedalin’,

Drew