Getting fit through indoor cycling
Each week Zwift sends me an email summarising my activity for the week. For previous weekly reviews click here. This last week consisted of 5 days riding (there were some days with two rides per day, but all in one session). The week also consisted of something I’ve been putting off for a while now, … Read more
For this morning’s climbing ride I took on Tacx Software’s Yorkshire Dales Stage 1 – Nidderdale ride. Heads up: I mucked around with my video capture settings for this ride, in the hope that I could eliminate the OBS encoder overloaded error. Alas, no. I have only succeeded in making the final recording awful quality. … Read more
For this afternoon’s ride I opted for Barcelona City Trip, a Tacx video ride. Billed as an easy ride, this was about 19km of beach front with a couple of short hills thrown in to test the legs. Total climb for the ride was 124m. Those two climbs look fairly steep, though the first climb … Read more
Christmas Jumper on, lights on the trees, and finally a bit of feeling returning to my legs. All in time for a nice rest day (tomorrow) and the new Star Wars film to enjoy. Fantastic. OK, so it’s been a high stress week in terms of bike activity. On Tuesday I did my second ever … Read more
Twenty four hours after my second FTP test I was back on the bike. What was I thinking? Well, in truth, I was thinking the same thing I’m always thinking: It’s hard to form a habit, and very easy to break it. So, tired legs or not, Wednesday night is a workout night. Being completely … Read more