Getting fit through indoor cycling
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. This week’s rides were as follows: Tuesday – Tour De Zwift 2021 – Stage 6: Longer … Read more
I’m not rightly sure what my objective was for today. Get outdoors, maybe? If so, goal achieved. Climb a hill? I climbed two, go me. Pass 1,000 calories? Yep, nailed that one, too. But this ride never felt strong at any point. A lot of this, I think, was to do with the weather. It … Read more
The weather person (or robot, probably) predicted a 90% chance of rain today, and I can unhappily confirm they were spot on. It’s rained for about 90% of the day. So no outdoors riding for me. It did stop, briefly, around 4pm – about the time I got on Zwift. But I didn’t fancy getting … Read more
I bought a new bed recently, it got delivered last week. Replaced a divan with a oak thingy. Why’s this important? Because this here new bed is chunkier and wider than my old one. And last night, at about 5am, I woke up and figured I wouldn’t be getting back to sleep until I’d emptied … Read more
After completing Stage 6 with no time to spare yesterday, it seemed unusual to do Stage 7 on the very first day it became available to ride. But truthfully I just wanted to get this one over with. Jungle Circuit is my least favourite of all routes on Zwift. The options were 2, 3, or … Read more