Getting fit through indoor cycling
The longer rides on the Tour de Zwift 2023 are absolutely brutal. I’ve not even dared look at what’s in store for Stage 4, because thoughts ahead of Stage 3 were all consuming. La Reine. A route no one rides through choice. The last time I took this on was in 2020 and honestly, it … 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 saw the kick off the Tour de Zwift 2023, the continuation of … Read more
Last night, Google’s feed thing on my phone (not sure what it’s called, swipe left from the Home screen on Android) recommended an article to me from road.cc about an alternative to Zwift called MyWhoosh. There wasn’t a huge amount of info to be had around MyWhoosh, other than that it’s a virtual cycling ‘game’ … Read more
Onwards to Stage 2, where this year’s Longer Ride would be tackling Richmond in reverse, not once, not twice, but thrice. Yes, whoever has decided on courses and routes this year is something of a sadist. Going into this one I knew one thing, and one thing only: that a lap of Richmond, forwards or … Read more
Two toughies in a row, and then time for an easy one instead. That was the plan today. Sixty long, fairly dull minutes of steady pedalling around Zwift’s Fuego Flats. Except because of real life, it wasn’t quite that. No. Half way through – pretty much bang on, actually – and right between intervals, I … Read more