Getting fit through indoor cycling
Today was planned as a Zone 2 recovery-ish endurance ride. Probably on Tempus Fugit. Something nice and steady. And flat. Instead, off we went to Yorkshire, tackling the Royal Pump Room 8 route, which is basically the full Yorkshire map in both forward and reverse. All 28km and 480m of fun. Lovely. The reason I … Read more
On we roll, very quickly in fact, to Stage 2 of January’s Zwift Flat Is Fast racing series. This one would be on the Richmond map, covering 3 (and a bit) laps of The Fan Flats route. As ever, a good place to learn this route is over at Zwift Insider. Richmond is one of … Read more
You know it’s going to be a tough day on the bike when your legs are complaining during the warm up. Opting to join one of the Robo Pacers on the Watopia Waistband route, this C category ride was, I think, set to a 2.8w/kg average. For me that falls somewhere around low tempo, so … Read more
For today’s workout I plumped for The Bernal, one of the workouts in Zwift’s INEOS Grenadiers Virtual Training Camp series. Just like the last over / under workout I did, I neglected to read the blurb ahead of setting off, and got treated to the unexpected cadence switcheroo once more. Something I could happily have … Read more
Looking for something harder than yesterday, but not the same old, same old, I spotted a new workout (at least by my poor observational skills): the Nino Schurter – Punchy Climbs workout in the athlete inspired section. Annoyingly, I was convinced I had taken a screenshot of the workout on the Zwift menu screen, but … Read more