Well, that was how I got started on riding my bicycle.
So I bought my first new bike - a GT Aggressor 1.0 in 2001.
At first my challenge was a 16 kilometers route that I tried to do in the morning.
I was exhausted when I finished this ride.
Soon a friend suggested I get a bike computer
(this you fit to the bike and can tell how fast you are going, and often other things,
such as average speed, how long you have been riding and what the time is).
At first I thought it was a silly idea, but I was persuaded to get one. Now every time
I went for my ride, I had to go faster, do it quicker. Always I checked the numbers on
my computer to see if I had improved - this is still true today!