Why Am I Not Moving Forward? | When Progress in Riding Stalls

Two Point Perspective · Feb 12, 2026 · 9m · transcript

For most of my riding life, progress worked in a predictable way.

You showed up.

You did the work.

And over time, things moved forward.

So what happens when that stops?

In this episode, I talk about something a lot of adult amateur riders experience — but don’t always say out loud:

Doing the work… and not moving up.

After a series of scary falls, I stepped down a division. That part made sense. But months turned into more than a year, and nothing changed.

No benchmarks.

No conversation about what “better” was supposed to look like.

No clarity about the path forward.

And that’s when the real…