Getting fit through indoor cycling
Today’s ride was a choice between the Zwift Academy 2023 Workout #2 (Shorter) or SST. So I went with a third choice, two x 15 minutes at FTP efforts. I figured the SST ride would be beneficial for sure, but setting a baseline as to how it feels to ride at FTP at a lower … Read more
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 I learned I cannot sprint for 2 minutes, and that whilst I … Read more
Being a glutton for punishment, today was my second attempt at the Zwift Academy 2023 – Group Workout #1. Only this time around I opted for the Longer workout, as opposed to the Shorter version which I ‘completed’ on Tuesday. Going into this one, I thought the only difference was a 20 minute tempo effort … Read more
November’s new ZRacing series kicks off with Stage 1, two laps of the Sleepless City route. That’s 19km of racing for about 85m of elevation. In other words, flat and fast. In fact, all the races in the Neokyo Nights series look to be this way. Will that help me in any way? Well, we … Read more
Explosive indeed. So explosive I ended up blowing up, big time. The big takeaway from today’s ride was this: eat properly before tackling this one. I’d started the day not even thinking about Zwift. I mean I knew I would be on Zwift at lunch time, but that’s just a regular Tuesday for me. The … Read more