High Ride Cycle Wins Favorite Studio + Instructor for 2025 Mariana Tek Studio Awards

High Ride Cycle has been named Favorite Studio and co-owner Megan Hanson has been named Favorite Instructor at the 2025 Mariana Tek Studio Awards, a national recognition celebrating standout leaders in boutique fitness.

Voted on by the fitness community, these awards highlight studios and instructors who have built meaningful connections with their riders—going beyond workouts to create spaces where movement, motivation, and community thrive.

With three locations across the Denver metro area, High Ride Cycle has become known for its high-energy, beat-based indoor cycling classes, where riders clip in for a 45-minute workout that blends cardio, strength training, and choreography to the rhythm of the music.

But what truly sets High Ride apart isn’t just the ride itself—it’s the community that fills the room.

And this year, that community made its voice heard.

Favorite Studio | Community Choice

The Favorite Studio Award recognizes the boutique fitness studio that captured the hearts of its members—earning the most votes for motivation, movement, and community connection.

For us, High Ride has always been about more than a workout.

It’s about the riders who choose to show up again and again.
It’s about the shared energy in a dark room with the music loud and the lights low.
It’s about the friendships that start on neighboring bikes and the confidence that grows with every ride.

Strength is built here.
Confidence is found here.
Friendships begin here.

This place exists because of the community that continues to trust us with their time, their energy, and their stories. Year after year, you choose to clip in with us—and that’s something we will never take for granted.

Favorite Instructor | Community Choice

The Favorite Instructor Award celebrates instructors who build powerful, engaged communities around movement.

If you’ve ever taken Megan Hanson’s class, you already understand why she received this recognition.

Megan’s heart is woven into every part of High Ride. The way she cares for people, believes in them, and creates a space where everyone feels like they belong is something that can’t be manufactured—it’s something you feel the moment you walk into the room.

She has a rare ability to push riders to be stronger while making them feel completely supported along the way.

The votes that led to this award came from the community she has helped build, ride after ride.

And that makes it all the more meaningful.

A Win That Belongs to the Community

While these awards have our name on them, they truly belong to the community that made them possible.

The riders who bring their energy into the room.
The instructors who pour their heart into every class.
The team behind the scenes who make the experience what it is.

High Ride exists because of all of you.

Thank you for showing up.
Thank you for believing in what we’re building together.
And thank you for making High Ride a place where something meaningful can happen in 45 minutes.

We’re endlessly grateful to be part of this community.

Here’s a look at how we celebrated these awards.