Getting fit through indoor cycling
I haven’t done a real world hard climb in a while. I think the last one I did may have been Mellor brow, but that might be wrong (edit: in hindsight it would have been the Trough of Bowland climb). Certainly I can’t remember doing one as steep as the “short” way up Jeffrey Hill … Read more
Today’s ride was deliberately split into two distinct sections. The idea was to spend the first half just meandering around, checking out some areas of Preston I’ve lived around all my life but never been down before. This involved quite a lot of stop / start, be it at junctions, or those annoying turnstiles designed … Read more
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 … Read more
Turn around when possible. Good Lord almighty. Tonight was a series of wrong turns. Some were my fault. I find the Garmin sat nav a bit fiddly, and with sunglasses on and traffic passing by, I sometimes miss a road or two. But worse is when I get to the turn and its shut for … Read more
Wednesday night and not yet done a ride this week? Laziness. My plan tonight was to either get started with the Zwift Academy, or do a ramp test. But I’d made quite the boob. The Zwift Academy doesn’t start until October. Whoops. And as it was a nice (enough) night outside, I figured I might … Read more