Getting fit through indoor cycling
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
This morning I took part in Stage 2 of the Tour of Watopia 2019. This was the Road To Ruins stage, or 8 laps of the Volcano Circuit. I managed to start about 10 seconds late. I had planned to get up with plenty of time to spare, but in the end, I only just … Read more
Today’s ride was a mixture of good and bad. Let’s start with the bad. I neglected to start my fan before riding. For the first 1-3km (the warm up), I find having the massive fan blasting in my face to be really quite annoying. My kids love to come in and watch whilst I’m spinning … Read more
Having not meant to ride yesterday, I had a “recovery ride” in mind for this morning. Now, I’m not 100% sure what a recovery ride actually is, but in my mind it means still going to ride, but mainly in the green and yellow bands without so much red. On that front, I failed. As … Read more
What’s the most fun you can have riding 30km in your dining room on a grey and gloomy Sunday morning? If you answered: Touring Watopia with 800 other indoor cyclists, then you’d be absolutely right. I was nervous about this ride. Would I be able to finish it? Would I be dead last — or … Read more