Getting fit through indoor cycling
An interesting day, on and off the bike. Yesterday I suffered a mechanical out on the open roads, and so was expecting to be missing today’s ride. Thankfully, however, I managed to get hold of a really good local mobile bike mechanic who came around this morning and got me back up and running. I … Read more
A new one on me today, a first climb of Zwift’s reproduction of Bealach na Bà, a Category 2 climb covering 632m of elevation over 9km at an average of 7%. One of the challenging parts of this climb is that the hardest part comes in the second half of the ride. At the half … Read more
Last week I thought we were done with racing on the Scottish roads. But alas no, I had clearly forgotten that a good week remained of August. Wishing my life away? For the fifth and final race of Zwift’s Race the Worlds series we would be taking on City and the Sgurr. It’s less city, … Read more
I’m really knackered. Not sure if it’s having ridden yesterday or what, but I was feeling it in the legs before I even started today. Not helped by Zwift crashing twice, meaning I spent ~10 minutes mucking around and rebooting before I even got the clock started. It seems odd to me that a walk … Read more
It’s important not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I was expecting between 6 and 8 laps today. We only had to do 5. Bonus. So the game would basically be: how many laps can I hold on for, before I am inevitably dropped on the Clyde Kicker? OK, so bit late on … Read more