Getting fit through indoor cycling
If you are on or around MyWhoosh for long enough, you will inevitably hear about the Endurance Climb. I want to say it’s akin to Zwift’s Alpe du Zwift, but it’s not quite the same. There are several other comparable (and harder) climbs to be found on MyWhoosh. The Endurance Climb is a bit different. … Read more
Day two with the builders, but yesterday I wasn’t “home alone” with them. Today, I was. That meant a lot of checking up on them, being interrupted with taps on the window, being on brew duties, the works. Around 11am they told me they were going for a break, back in an hour. Perfect, thought … Read more
Had workmen in the back garden today, all day. Noisy. And then when it came to cycling, I wasn’t going to ride in my lycra, sweating for them to watch and stare. No sir. So the curtains had to be shut. For an hour, various puffing, panting, and grunting noises came from behind the curtains. … Read more
For today’s ride, I chose the Endurance #5 workout on MyWhoosh. This one was straightforward, focusing mainly on low-intensity efforts with some minor variations thrown in. It wasn’t taxing at all for the vast majority, with a bit of punch thrown in right at the end. In the final stretch, there’s a 5-minute interval pushing … Read more
For today’s ride, I picked the MyWhoosh Tempo #9 workout, which closely matched what I’ve been aiming for all week. This session was essentially structured as two 20-minute efforts around my Functional Threshold Power (FTP), creating a decent experiment as to the validity of my recent FTP change. The workout itself is a tempo effort, … Read more