Getting fit through indoor cycling
For tonight’s ride I opted for a repeat of one of the previous FTP Builder sessions I’ve done before: 6 minutes @ 130w 2 minutes @ 100w Repeated 6 times. After Sunday’s ride I was in too minds all day as to whether to take on a more intensive session (likely SST), or go for … Read more
Each week Zwift sends me an email summarising my activity for the week. For previous weekly reviews click here. This week’s riding consisted of 5 sessions, across which I had a real mixture of intensities and activities. It’s been a fun week, but also a fairly tiring one. I decided to start the week with … Read more
For today’s climbing ride I took on Tacx Software’s Cormet de Roselend Stage 1 – Col du Pré. This was labelled as difficult, though I felt it might be easier than Col des Glieres as whilst this was a longer overall climb, the ride was 95% uphill, so in theory, the average gradient should be … Read more
For this afternoon’s ride I opted for an FTP Builder session, repeating Week 9 Day 1. This is a fairly long session at about 1.5 hours, and largely consists of two blocks: 25 min at 130w 10 min at 100w And repeat twice. There’s a 10 minute warm up and a 5 minute cool down. … Read more
For tonight’s birthday ride I decided – at the very last minute – to switch out from my scheduled Zwift FTP Builder active recovery ride to instead, cycle into Amsterdam through the Tacx Software. An easy ride that Starts with the local cyclist’s favourite countryside polder based lap called the Ronde Hoep and finishing with … Read more