Getting fit through indoor cycling
Each week Zwift sends me an email summarising my activity for the week. For previous weekly reviews click here. Easily the biggest achievement of the week – and of my cycling career so far – was climbing the Alpe Du Zwift. Good enough for a Ride On from Zwift themselves: With the 2019 Tour of … Read more
Climbing Alpe Du Zwift at 9am on a Bank Holiday weekend Sunday. I wouldn’t have done this out of choice. But I did it anyway thanks to the Tour of Watopia 2019. If giving people who wouldn’t normally climb the Alpe a real sense of achievement is what Zwift were after, then I think they … Read more
As it’s Friday, and as I figured I’d want a beer after work (currently enjoying as I type!), and because I worked late last night, I figured what the heck, why not take an hour lunch and get in as much of a ride as I could during my dinner break. And by dinner, I … Read more
Rather than take on a Free Ride, and potentially go harder than I should, these last two rides I have opted for one of Zwift’s structured workouts. In particularly I’ve tried Zwift’s 4 Week FTP booster. Yesterday I did the Tempo Into Sprints exercise. Today I went back a day (according to the training plan) … Read more
These last few days I have been absolutely knackered. On Monday my legs felt thrashed. On Tuesday, they were just starting to feel a bit better. And this morning, they felt alright, but I wasn’t ready to ride on them. Later in the afternoon I decided to take a gander at Zwift’s workout options, and … Read more