Getting fit through indoor cycling
I awoke pretty much bang on 7am, and after rising I looked out of the window and saw that the ground was wet. Boo. However, by the time I’d made a coffee, had my toast, and watched a bit of pointless YouTube, I found the ground was drying up. Or at least the back garden … Read more
A toss up today between staying inside and doing an SST or climb portal ride, or heading out and aiming for 30km by doing three laps of the 10km loop I’ve devised. In the end, the outdoors won because I’d spent the morning fighting the computer to try to figure out some ridiculous maths puzzle … Read more
Missing out on Stage 2 of the July’s Beach Party race series feels really weird, now that July is practically at an end and I’ve only done three races. It feels like this should be the third, not the fourth. That said, where has July even gone? Madness. Ahead of this one I did some … Read more
Tuesday means kicking off the riding week with a Sweet Spot Training (SST) session. It doesn’t seem to matter that I have a reduced FTP at the moment, as these sessions always feel hard no matter what targets I have to hit. By the fourth interval I am more than ready for it to be … Read more
Having missed last week’s Stage 2 race, today was my first time racing in over two weeks and, knowing ahead of time this would be 5 times up the Mech Isle Climb, I can’t say I was overly thrilled at the prospect. I got on early enough, getting in a ~10 minute very easy warm … Read more