Getting fit through indoor cycling
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. An interesting week, all told. Whilst not covered (because this is only about cycling … Read more
The difference between an indoor ride and an outdoor ride is, for me, that I don’t necessarily know I’m going to do a climb when heading outdoors, versus having to pretty much choose e.g. The Alpe du Zwift from the menu when indoors. It was baking hot today. Still is, actually. So I wanted to … Read more
My legs have not fully recovered from Tuesday’s trip up the fells and other walking activities. I’ve got a terrible blister on my little toe which, if I didn’t wander round in my socks for most of the day, would be awfully uncomfortable. And then yesterday I took part in the “dad’s race” at my … Read more
Wow. Crazy day. Not going to go into it in any great depth as frankly I’m mentally exhausted. But I have accepted a new role, not the one I accepted last week – the one that had been giving me serious anxiety from thereafter – and am very happy with how things turned out. It … Read more
Oh mercy. So yesterday I went on something of a hike. Not one for climbing fells, I am today paying the price. Not so much as I might be doing were it not for the bike, but clearly going up hills on foot uses some different leg muscles to a similar activity on the bike. … Read more