Ride Report

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

The idea today was to do the reverse of yesterday’s route. Only I misjudged the time requirements for this one – and ended up finding myself with about 40 minutes to do a 50 minute ride. Part of the problem was that I needed to be back home in time to be showered and ready … Read more

My lasting memory of today’s ride will be feeling like I was absolutely slogging myself, and then looking down and seeing I was going at 24kph. To say there was a headwind at times would be quite the understatement. Unfortunately it was one of those days where regardless of the direction of travel, it always … Read more