Getting fit through indoor cycling
This morning I rode Emily’s Short Mix at my current FTP: 153w. There are two workouts on Zwift that I’ve found by named people which Zwift does a bad job of explaining just who they are. A little Googling tells me: Emily is Emily Mullen, head of brand and marketing at Zwift Jon (from Jon’s … Read more
A few downers today to kick us off, but I promise it ends on a positive. I missed my start time. I had this down for the 12 noon GMT set off, but due to rushing (reasons why in a second), I managed to miss the start by seconds and so had the choice of … Read more
Today’s ride was a choice between the Zwift Academy 2023 Workout #2 (Shorter) or SST. So I went with a third choice, two x 15 minutes at FTP efforts. I figured the SST ride would be beneficial for sure, but setting a baseline as to how it feels to ride at FTP at a lower … 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. Phew. We made it. Several near misses and idiot motorists avoided this week, so … Read more
Each week Zwift sends me an email summarising my activity for the week. For previous weekly reviews click here. Sometimes the stats are wrong. Like this week. Wrong or not, I didn’t do a huge amount of Zwift work this last week. Perhaps I should have done. More on that a little later. Last week … Read more