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
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