Chris

Indoor cyclist by morning, computer programmer by day (and night). My aim is to get fit through riding my road bike on a turbo trainer. Currently rocking a Specialised Allez on a Tacx Neo 2.

Neokyo Nights: Stage 2 – Twilight Harbor (B)

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An interesting race today, but not in the way you might expect. Everything about this one was fairly uninteresting, as far as racing on Zwift goes. The route was practically flat. 103m elevation over 20.8km. Three laps, each of which sees the first half with almost no movement. The second half is where the fun … Read more

Low Cadence Baseline

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Today’s ride was a choice between the Zwift Academy 2023 Workout #2 (Shorter) or SST. So I went with a third choice, two x 15 minutes at FTP efforts. I figured the SST ride would be beneficial for sure, but setting a baseline as to how it feels to ride at FTP at a lower … Read more

Weekly Review November 6th – 12th 2023

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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.  This week I learned I cannot sprint for 2 minutes, and that whilst I … Read more

Zwift Academy 2023 – Group Workout #1: Long | Explosive 30s

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Being a glutton for punishment, today was my second attempt at the Zwift Academy 2023 – Group Workout #1. Only this time around I opted for the Longer workout, as opposed to the Shorter version which I ‘completed’ on Tuesday. Going into this one, I thought the only difference was a 20 minute tempo effort … Read more

Neokyo Nights: Stage 1 – Sleepless City (B)

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November’s new ZRacing series kicks off with Stage 1, two laps of the Sleepless City route. That’s 19km of racing for about 85m of elevation. In other words, flat and fast. In fact, all the races in the Neokyo Nights series look to be this way. Will that help me in any way? Well, we … Read more