Getting fit through indoor cycling
Oh mercy. So yesterday I went on something of a hike. Not one for climbing fells, I am today paying the price. Not so much as I might be doing were it not for the bike, but clearly going up hills on foot uses some different leg muscles to a similar activity on the bike. … Read more
Yesterday should have been an outdoor ride. Heck, it should have been a lot of things… but work got in the way. I started at 7:30 (yes, on a Saturday) and worked right through till 21:30… what a day. Sucks, because I looked out of the window early on, about 10:30 and thought: you know … Read more
Heading outdoors again today I was greeted with a fairly lovely Autumn morning. Temperatures up around 18c, low wind, and whilst it was wet, it wasn’t spraying everywhere or slushy and horrible. In terms of a route, I didn’t have a definitive one in mind. The idea floating around my head was to visit Preston’s … Read more
I don’t know about you, but I really struggle to do recovery rides outdoors. The undulating roads. The dash to beat the traffic lights. And the drag away from said lights… It’s really hard to keep a steady slow pace with a high cadence. Definitely easier indoors. But here’s the thing: I didn’t want to … Read more
The aim of this one was to stick to around 2.8w/kg for the ride. Well, I failed hard on that front. Infact, I failed so hard that the Garmin reported this one as being a primary benefit to Anaerobic … which is something I’ve tried, and failed, to do deliberately in the past. And today … Read more