When 60km Feels Like 100

It’s been a pretty tough week out there on the bike. Part of the issue is I’ve not managed a full hour on two out of three rides, which has brought the overall distance covered – so far – down by about 5-10km, but even so, I’m definitely lacking overall. I will say it’s harder … Read more

Dinner Dash

All day meeting meets hard limit 1 hour lunch break. Time to pedal. In my head I had this one down as a tempo ride. But looking at the colour of the route overlay, this was not a tempo ride at all. Perhaps I should try for a proper tempo ride tomorrow. To be honest … Read more

Stoned

There are plenty of rides where I set out with a plan, and shortly thereafter it goes right out of the window. Today sort of felt like that, as the plan was tempo, which for me is riding at 3w/kg. I wanted to do an hour of that, and ideally 30+ kilometres. Within 10 minutes … Read more

Cancel Culture

The idea today was to do the reverse of yesterday’s route. Only I misjudged the time requirements for this one – and ended up finding myself with about 40 minutes to do a 50 minute ride. Part of the problem was that I needed to be back home in time to be showered and ready … Read more