Cycling Outdoors

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

My lasting memory of today’s ride will be feeling like I was absolutely slogging myself, and then looking down and seeing I was going at 24kph. To say there was a headwind at times would be quite the understatement. Unfortunately it was one of those days where regardless of the direction of travel, it always … Read more

As the post title says, today I was time crunched. I knew I had a meeting at 13:30, and was planning on being out from 12:15 to 13:15, looking to do a pretty full on session. However, at about midday my wife reminded me she had an appointment at 13:10, so I would need to … Read more

Sunday morning rides used to be a thing. And when I did them I would always reward myself by taking it super easy. No pressure, no targets, just ride for enjoyment. And that’s pretty much what I did today. It’s actually pretty hard to do much else with the route I took because there’s so … Read more

Frustration is the word of the … well, I don’t want to say Day, because it’s far beyond that. I’d say it’s overall been a very frustrating Quarter. I know I’m due my FTP test for Quarter 1 this weekend, but I also know there’s very little point as I don’t think the numbers would … Read more