Getting fit through indoor cycling
Rather than do another turbo session today, which would have been sensible, I instead opted for a bit of a recovery ride outside. This generally means I was cycling slower than usual. And that means some impatient road users were upset with my antics. How dare I ride my bike on their roads? I know. … Read more
It’s been a pretty so-and-so day. Started off with me having a melt down in the kitchen. Last night’s dirty pots everywhere (my fault), then spilling my kids party sweets all over the floor (their fault, leaving half open bags of junk around), then standing in a inexplicably wet patch of the carpet whilst in … Read more
I went out today with the idea of doing a 30km TT route. But I’ll be the first to admit I was struggling fairly early on. My pacing seemed off. Maybe I’d gone too hard. However, it all came undone anyway when a white van man deliberately got super close to me on a super … Read more
Something new and unusual happened to me today. And being an isolated newb I’m not entirely sure what it was. I’ll explain the symptoms and then if anyone knows, please do leave a comment. So I’d been gunning it. In prep for my forthcoming FTP test I decided to TT myself on a ~30km loop. … Read more
Straight up, the mistake today was not route planning. I said yesterday that the plan for today was to do a 50km ride. Well, I can tick that one off. But because I’d not got a route in my Garmin, I was a bit lost at times. I knew roughly where I was, but I … Read more