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 review is slightly different to the usual format as I’m having to … Read more
My idea of fun is not being soaked to the skin, covered in grit, and getting blasted by 60kph gusts. But that was the gist of tonight’s ride. Now, it didn’t start that way. Well, it kind of did. I took about 30 minutes getting ready, largely because I’d left it very late in the … Read more
At some point this week I remember saying about wanting to do a longer road ride, but finding it a bit nervy out there for various reasons. The idea today was to do an hour, at as fast a pace as possible, out on the open roads. But with the caveat that I didn’t want … Read more
It’s been a pretty tough week out there on the bike. Part of the issue is I’ve not managed a full hour on two out of three rides, which has brought the overall distance covered – so far – down by about 5-10km, but even so, I’m definitely lacking overall. I will say it’s harder … Read more
The plan to “just ride” seems to be going OK. One thing that frustrates me is not hitting the 30km in 1 hour marker, and today I was about 5km short of that. Yes, there was 228m of climbing involved, but mostly this was down to the routes I have to pick during lunch breaks … Read more