Oh my days. An hour on Zwift, doing the FTP builder active recovery session (9 minutes on, 1 minute off, repeat 5x) with a banging headache, after having spent all day in the same room at the same computer. Yeah. It sucked.
Couple this with my least favourite bib shorts. The ones that I’ve had the longest, cost the least, and I’m all but certain the gel pad has become more of a one leaf gelatin pancake. Time for the bin for them bad boys. My poor rectum.
Anyway, on to the one interesting thing to happen today was getting passed by Bowie Brevet. Unfortunately I didn’t realise the not was coming until it passed me, surrounded by a bunch of riders, at a fairly solid pace. You can’t miss the green machine.
It was interesting to see how people were using the bot. Most were grouped around it. But one or two at the back were chasing. And I wasn’t sure if they were trying to hop on the wheel, or maybe using the bot for practice in some capacity. I could imagine some interesting exercises where you allow yourself to lose the draft, have to work hard to get back on, recover then repeat. Creating your own workout in a way. Good race practice, too.
I really had hoped to get outdoors again tonight. I’d even plotted a crazy exploratory route covering a bunch of side streets and back roads that I’ve not ridden before. Alas, after a fully overcast day, the heavens opened at half 4, just as I finished work. I probably could have gone out, as it eased off as I got into my ride. I could see it from the window. Likely I ended up wetter riding indoors.
The one good thing is that this weekend, and into next week, the weather is looking great stuff. Up to 24c on Sunday. You know, normal September heatwave weather. Global warming? What global warming.
OK, that’s me done for today. Whilst I don’t necessarily agree with Zwift kilometres counting for the full amount when compared to outdoors anymore, I am happy to have covered 30km or so this evening. It gets the weeks total up to a more respectable figure. And with, hopefully, two more days riding in store, it might yet turn out to be a
