Getting fit through indoor cycling
Three week day rides, all outdoors, and all ~30km. I’ll happily take that. It’s a real shame the wind was up today, as at the odd time it wasn’t blowing wild, the sun was really pleasant. However when the wind picked up, it was like cycling through treacle. Even though I have manually planned each … Read more
The 24 hour weather forecast is rarely wrong, and so when, last night, I saw rain rain rain for the morning, I suspected I’d be indoors today. Well, it did rain, but the showers were light and the ground largely dry when dinner time arrived. So, off out I went. I plotted a route into … Read more
After Sunday I was worried my right knee was quite painful when putting any pressure on the joint. However that had seemed to sort itself out overnight on Monday, so whilst today might have otherwise been recovery I decided to get out and do a ~200w steady effort over a fairly flat loop. This was … Read more
Each week I try to review and reflect on my previous week on the bike. This allows me to see how my fitness and ability is progressing on a wider timescale than day to day. For previous weekly reviews please click here. In terms of distance, duration, calories, and TSS, this week was massive. Unintentionally so, … Read more
Hewly mewly, it doesn’t feel like that long since I did Stage 1 of this years Tour of Watopia… and that’s because it’s not. I only completed Stage 1 on Thursday, and here we are already doing Stage 2. There’s only five stages this year, to the very best of my knowledge, so within two … Read more