Getting fit through indoor cycling
The gloriously sunny Easter bank holiday is over, Jesus has done his thing, and the rest of us are back at work. But before starting work for the day, I had just enough time to drop in a cheeky 15km ride around Zwift’s London map. I opted for the London Classique, a 5km jaunt with … Read more
It’s taken me 44 days since buying my bike to go from doing bugger all per week, to having ridden 50k in a single ride. Not all of those days have been riding days. In that time I’ve had 8 rest days. That’s couch to 50km in 36 riding days. Last night I was looking … Read more
Sad times. I got up especially early this morning – 7.30am on a bank holiday Saturday #dedicated – and got onto the Tour of Watopia 2019 – Stage 3 (Group Workout Gone Wild!). Things started off great. There was a fairly decent amount of people online for this ride – about 230 give or take … Read more
Three days into the week, and already 5 rides. Phew. Partly this is due to my rather silly attempt at the British Cycling Ride Seven Challenge. Why this event in particular? My two reasons are really sporting: I like the colour scheme of the badge I want a badge. Any badge. It’s frankly quite unlikely … Read more
Having finally ‘finished’ a personal coding project I’ve been working on for over 10 months at about 20:30 last night, I decided the best way to celebrate was with a 15km / 30 minute spin on Zwift. This is huge progress for me. I’ve successfully gamified getting fit. Normally my go to reward for finishing … Read more