STAY MOTIVATED

If you’re training for an event or on a mission to improve your itness, your motivation will ebb and low. Once you embrace that fact you can ine-tune personal strategies to keep motivated. Coach Chris Kilmurray has ive tips…

EMBRACE TRUEREST

There’s nothing better to keep motivation high to ride fast, improve and suffer than quality, planned rest. Real rest. Feet up, good food, friends and family. If you have big training goals, then make it a priority.

REWARDS DON’T WORK

If you rely on regular rewards to motivate yourself, you’ll soon ind you’re spending more time searching for better or more rewards and less time actually riding. Keep the beer and cake as part of a varied diet, and see the fun and time outdoors on your bike as the real reward.

GET YOUR PRIORITIE S RIGHT PRIORITIE

If you have clear goals, then your daily choices should match up to those, and motivation will low for free. Want to complete an enduro race? Then preparing your kit and food the night before your three weekly training rides is a perfect example of priorities matching goals.

FUN AND FRIENDS

Have fun, ride and train with friends! That’s the best motivation there is. Try riding with faster friends and planning fun rides with no goal, set route or duration. Fun always equals progress.

KEEP TRACK

Keeping a log of your rides and training, using an app like Strava, will help keep you on track. Seeing all the effort you’ve put in over time will motivate you to do more. Even after a long break, holiday or illness, looking back at past rides and seeing success and consistency will show you what you’re capable of.