Getting fit through indoor cycling
For this morning’s ride I took part in the Tour de Zwift: Stage 2 Long Distance over on the Innsbruck map. This was my fourth ride in the Tour de Zwift 2020 so far, my second group ride with the other two being races. Due to the somewhat compressed schedule of the Tour de Zwift … Read more
For this evening’s ride I took on the Tour de Zwift: Stage 2 Race (Innsbruck) in category C. In short this is two laps of the Innsbruckring (8.8km) with ~70m of climb per lap courtesy of the “leg snapper”. Typically I would not choose to ride, let alone race at night. But due to some … Read more
Wow. That’s quite the workout title. I picked this workout on Wednesday, but didn’t ride it until today. Why? Well, I tried – and largely failed – to ride Tacx Software’s video rides on Thursday, and last night after work I just couldn’t be bothered to do a workout. So, here we are. Saturday, “ZF19 … Read more
Bad times. As covered before, I have been using a Gorilla Pod to mount my phone on my bike handlebars which I can then easily see the Zwift Companion App whilst riding. This makes it easy to take screenshots for this blog, along with quickly changing camera angles, giving ride ons, and stuff like that. … Read more
For tonight’s after work ride I got lucky – it was Innsbruck, one of my favourite maps. I opted for a climb, taking on the 2018 UCI Worlds Short Lap, a 23.6km route taking in both the Innsbruckring and Innsbruck KOM, a 7.4km climb with an average gradient of 5% over 400m. To begin with, … Read more