Goal

Main article: Goal setting
Goal-setting ideally involves establishing specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-targeted objectives. Work on the goal-setting theory suggests that it can serve as an effective tool for making progress by ensuring that participants have a clear awareness of what they must do to achieve or help achieve an objective. On a personal level, the process of setting goals allows people to specify and then work towards their own objectives — most commonly financial or career-based goals. Goal-setting comprises a major component of Personal development.


Specific, measurable, realistic and time targeted. My goals and many of yours fit that and therefore are very legitimate. That was the point of my post, not styles of riding and race event measurement.