February: Time to check in on your 2025 goals

January is done and dusted. One month of 2025 has flown by already! Have you set yourself any big cycling goals yet? Looking back, I had a very successful 2024. I hit both my distance and elevation gain targets. I put in decent performances at both the Tour de Brisbane and the IRONMAN 70.3 Cairns…

One month down, time to evaluate your 2024 progress so far

An entire month of 2024 has flown by already, can you believe it?!?! The beginning of February is the perfect time to look back at your year so far. Did you set yourself a couple of monthly or yearly goals? Have you been making progress towards those? How are you tracking? After mulling over my…

The Distance Goal Conundrum

I have a love-hate relationship with distance-based goals. Recently I have been trying to move away from distance goals and towards time-based goals instead. At the end of the day, distance is just one measurement we can use to gauge progress, and it is not always the best one. Time on the other hand, is…

Have you set 2022 cycling goals yet?

We all need something to work towards. As athletes we strive to continually improve on our previous performances and tackle bigger challenges. It’s simply in our nature. As we edge day by day into 2022, have you set yourself some lofty cycling-related goals for this year? I haven’t given much thought to big 2022 goals…

2022 Resolution Ride #01 – Happy 20th birthday to my bike!

This year I missed out on a New Year’s Day ride. I was pretty smoked after a big December so decided an additional rest day wouldn’t hurt. To make up for that, it was straight back into the swing of things with a metric century on the 2nd of January! I’m not planning on topping…

And just like that, another year draws to a close

2021. Done and dusted. The planet makes another trip around the sun and we wave goodbye to another calendar year. Firstly, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to visit my site and read what I write! It is much appreciated. As the years seem to these days, 2021 has absolutely FLOWN by….