Getting fit through indoor cycling
Today’s ride was a mixture of good and bad. Let’s start with the bad. I neglected to start my fan before riding. For the first 1-3km (the warm up), I find having the massive fan blasting in my face to be really quite annoying. My kids love to come in and watch whilst I’m spinning … Read more
Having not meant to ride yesterday, I had a “recovery ride” in mind for this morning. Now, I’m not 100% sure what a recovery ride actually is, but in my mind it means still going to ride, but mainly in the green and yellow bands without so much red. On that front, I failed. As … Read more
Sounds like a bad idea. Probably was. With 30 minutes to spare between peeling some spuds and having to get the tea out of the oven, I decided heck, why not get in a short swift Zwift session? I know that Stage 7 of the Tour of Watopia 2019 is the full Alpe Du Zwift. … Read more
What’s the most fun you can have riding 30km in your dining room on a grey and gloomy Sunday morning? If you answered: Touring Watopia with 800 other indoor cyclists, then you’d be absolutely right. I was nervous about this ride. Would I be able to finish it? Would I be dead last — or … Read more
Innsbruck is one of my favourite Zwift locations, alongside Watopia and London. Yet it’s easily my least explored. As such, I was happy to see Innsbruck as today’s guest world. I haven’t ridden since Tuesday this week. There’s a good reason for this. I had done six days in a row by Tuesday, and whilst … Read more