Cycling Outdoors

A good ride today with one big effort thrown in early on. About 5 minutes into the ride I figured I’d been going hard and so ought to keep on riding hard and see if I could do a 20 minute interval at that pace.  The thing is the route I had picked wasn’t massively … Read more

It’s getting hotter here lately. I think today was 23c. Garmin recorded it as 28c average, which it definitely wasn’t. Not sure what went wrong there. Anyway, regardless it was short sleeves weather, finally. As in, short sleeves for both jersey and base layer. I really wanted to get in a longer ride today. In … Read more

Another nice day out, it would have been a shame to waste it indoors. However lunch time is always a little sketchy for riding due to people going a bit quick on the sandwich run, so I opted for mostly a countryside ride. I would have said that meant more than average pot holes and … Read more

I went out today with the idea of doing a more chilled and laid back ride. I did a workout yesterday, and so figured today could be something a touch easier. Does that ever work outside? No. Instead I found myself absolutely tearing along. Whether it was a favourable tailwind, or simply feeling nicer what … Read more

My idea of fun is not being soaked to the skin, covered in grit, and getting blasted by 60kph gusts. But that was the gist of tonight’s ride. Now, it didn’t start that way. Well, it kind of did. I took about 30 minutes getting ready, largely because I’d left it very late in the … Read more