More fun through talent
Everyone has talent - in one area or another. Why lug 90 kilos over the mountains when you are genetically more destined to ride at speed on flat terrain? Of course, not everyone is destined to be a super athlete from birth. But it's not just about top placings. It's also about having fun. You prefer to do what you're good at. And when you practise, you become better and more confident, which leads to even more fun.
Often, there is a lack of dialogue with one's own strengths and consistent promotion of these. Cycling is an extremely versatile sport that combines endurance, strength, speed, anaerobic stamina, tactical cunning, dexterity, aerodynamics, mental strength and more. These are enough starting points to think about where you can best play to your strengths.
Applied to athletics, road cyclists are marathon runners, middle distance runners and 100 metre sprinters all rolled into one - with highly individual mixes, of course. The key to success lies in matching your own performance profile with the requirements of a competition - or more generally: with the requirements of a discipline. It doesn't have to be a competition. If you have a gifted sense of balance, you are more likely to realise this strength as a crosser, mountain biker or trial rider than on the next bike tour, because skill is not something you can score points with there.
You can find the talent test to fill in with a list of results as a PDF download.
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