Getting fit through indoor cycling
A really easy ride today. The last couple of days of long travel and sleepless nights have taken it out of me. I didn’t even want to do this ride, but in my head I had built it up to be harder than it actually was. Somewhat annoyingly, this has been a really nice day … 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
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
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
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