active recovery

Zwift Academy Road Group Ride: 1.7 – 2.2 w/kg

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By way of recovery, this morning I took part in the Zwift Academy Road Group Ride: 1.7 – 2.2 w/kg ride. There were two rides, this was the easier – I think the other was at 2.3-2.9w/kg? I’m not sure if the other ride was on the same course. I didn’t check, nor really have … Read more

Tired Thighs

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This afternoon’s ride was my first on Zwift in a while now. And given the choice, I’d have had a pop on GT 5 Bike instead. There’s been a recent update to GT 5 Bike which apparently makes it easier to get setup. Unfortunately GTA 5 also updated recently, and based on the error I … Read more

Goodnight Sit Bones

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Oh my days. An hour on Zwift, doing the FTP builder active recovery session (9 minutes on, 1 minute off, repeat 5x) with a banging headache, after having spent all day in the same room at the same computer. Yeah. It sucked. Couple this with my least favourite bib shorts. The ones that I’ve had … Read more

Chill and Kill

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Today’s rides were chalk and cheese. I had a very long, low intensity Zwift workout, and then shortly after I had a bit of a hair raising very short real world ride. More on that below. What I will say is that Zwift’s kilometers are somewhat questionable. I’d honestly never given it a huge amount … Read more

Four Tens Are Forty

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As it rained all morning, and heavily too, by the time I’d finished my mornings computer work (busy adding a site search facility to bikeclimbs.com) the roads outdoors didn’t look dry enough to head outdoors without getting filthy. And anyway, I would probably overdo it outdoors, so decided an hour on the turbo, doing an Active … Read more