Cycling Outdoors

The Hour Road Test

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At some point this week I remember saying about wanting to do a longer road ride, but finding it a bit nervy out there for various reasons. The idea today was to do an hour, at as fast a pace as possible, out on the open roads. But with the caveat that I didn’t want … Read more

When 60km Feels Like 100

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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

More Of The Same, In So Many Ways

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The plan to “just ride” seems to be going OK. One thing that frustrates me is not hitting the 30km in 1 hour marker, and today I was about 5km short of that. Yes, there was 228m of climbing involved, but mostly this was down to the routes I have to pick during lunch breaks … Read more

Dinner Dash

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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

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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