I’ve been tracking my goals on the Garmin website, and I was over 20% done with my biking goal two weeks into January because I’ve been doing so much indoor cycling on my trainer with the Zwift app in order to complete the Tour de Zwift challenge.
I’ve loved it, it’s fun, it’s motivating, it’s incredibly convenient, Greg and I often do it together, and I’ve been able to recover in time to do my running. Last week’s discovery that I could in fact do yoga and also a bike ride on the trainer on the same day and enjoy both sealed the deal; I doubled my mileage goal for the year up to 1,000 miles to bike. That’s an average of 20 per week instead of 10, and I think it’ll make it easier for me to stay motivated to bike throughout the year.
I’ve been really active the first few weeks of January, but I won’t need to keep up this level of activity to achieve my goals. Two weeks in and I’m ahead on all of them.
I want to make sure there’s plenty of wiggle room for busy times in life, but that it’s also not so easy that it doesn’t encourage consistency. After all, consistency in my workouts was the whole point of this goal – to achieve the benefit of running and cycling and yoga more regularly (not like an insane person three months out of the year and then nothing for the rest).
I think I’m in a good place.