Getting fit through indoor cycling
Had a bit of a disaster today. The ride was not supposed to be an intensive effort, just a dinner time bike ride. On that front, I succeeded. As per the stats below – no benefit – everywhere else I probably failed. I tried to stay off the roads as much as possible today, at … Read more
A good ride today with one big effort thrown in early on. About 5 minutes into the ride I figured I’d been going hard and so ought to keep on riding hard and see if I could do a 20 minute interval at that pace. The thing is the route I had picked wasn’t massively … Read more
True story, I picked this route today, took my laptop on the bike with me, and looked up twice. Once when I had done 15 minutes, and the next time was when I had 8 minutes left in the workout. All of the other time I was preoccupied with my work. Not a bad thing, … Read more
Each week I try to review and reflect on my previous week on the bike. This allows me to see how my fitness and ability is progressing on a wider timescale than day to day. For previous weekly reviews please click here. Overall an ‘up’ week. I did the most riding I’ve done in a while … Read more
It’s getting hotter here lately. I think today was 23c. Garmin recorded it as 28c average, which it definitely wasn’t. Not sure what went wrong there. Anyway, regardless it was short sleeves weather, finally. As in, short sleeves for both jersey and base layer. I really wanted to get in a longer ride today. In … Read more