Getting fit through indoor cycling
Chris 
Each week Zwift sends me an email summarising my activity for the week. For previous weekly reviews click here. This week consisted of 5 rides with 2 rest days. Generally the week felt strong, but there was no one stand out ride as best I recall. Certainly the average watts graph at the bottom of … Read more
I wanted a ride this morning, but the prospect of a 2hr ride wasn’t that appealing. I set in mind a target of riding for an hour, and seeing how I got on. For this ride I opted for Watopia’s Figure 8 circuit, a mixture of Watopia’s hills and sprints over ~30km. Ideal. As ever, … Read more
Due to some unexpected work commitments I didn’t get to ride yesterday evening after work. That sucked. Then Saturday’s are always a bit of a weird one for me in terms of when I might get a ride in. Typically it happens early afternoon, but today, my wife was on Zwift instead! Outrageous. So i … Read more
For yesterday evening’s ride I opted for Zwift’s London 8 route, which is essentially the Classique and Box Hill combined. In total this works out to be about 20km + ~230m of climb. As I couldn’t work out how fresh I was feeling, I decided that I’d take it easy and see how I got … Read more
For yesterday evening’s ride I opted to repeat Week 3 Day 3 of Zwift’s 10-12 Week FTP Builder program. This is a light exercise, spinning at a low wattage but at a high cadence. I like it as it feels like a decent exercise without being overly taxing. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, I could not … Read more