Getting fit through indoor cycling
OK, a tiring one again today, but mostly of my own making. Aiming to keep to FTP for this one, mainly as a personal test to see what I am really capable of over the hour. And it turns out, yet again to be a fairly disappointing figure. At least, comparatively. It looks like my … Read more
Not the ride I wanted to do today. For work reasons, I had to start early this morning. Then someone booked me in a meeting for 12:45. As I’m away on Wednesday with work, I wanted to do my first Zwift ride today so as not to mess up the week. Ideally that would have … Read more
I’m a little late posting this one. About a month ago I made the decision to upgrade most of the components on the bike. I’m still riding the stock entry level Specialized Allez I bought back in 2019. The only changes I had made were: Everything else remained as it was the day I bought … Read more
Hmm. So today’s plan was pretty simple. My usual Saturday rides as of late are, ideally, harder climbing rides. However for October (and probably a bit of November), I want to use the Saturday ride to take on the Longer variant of the week’s Tour of Watopia 2023 rides. With a usual Saturday ride being … Read more
When I woke up this morning I felt thrashed already. Not a great nights sleep. Up every 3 hours for no good reason. However it wasn’t the bad sleep that had me not wanting to do today’s race. It was how my legs felt this morning after yesterday’s Stage 1 ride on the Tour of … Read more