Getting fit through indoor cycling
Disappointingly I thought I was going to be back to normal today. Two days off the bike, no major soreness, I thought hey, miraculous recovery! Alas, no. I’m really glad I didn’t do what I thought I might, which was to go and get stuck in to the Tour de Zwift Stage 4 Longer Ride. … Read more
The longer rides on the Tour de Zwift 2023 are absolutely brutal. I’ve not even dared look at what’s in store for Stage 4, because thoughts ahead of Stage 3 were all consuming. La Reine. A route no one rides through choice. The last time I took this on was in 2020 and honestly, it … Read more
Last night, Google’s feed thing on my phone (not sure what it’s called, swipe left from the Home screen on Android) recommended an article to me from road.cc about an alternative to Zwift called MyWhoosh. There wasn’t a huge amount of info to be had around MyWhoosh, other than that it’s a virtual cycling ‘game’ … Read more
Onwards to Stage 2, where this year’s Longer Ride would be tackling Richmond in reverse, not once, not twice, but thrice. Yes, whoever has decided on courses and routes this year is something of a sadist. Going into this one I knew one thing, and one thing only: that a lap of Richmond, forwards or … Read more
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