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Ho Ho Ho and an NYC

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Working from home is a wonderful thing. I had a fairly busy morning, given that it’s Christmas Eve. But I also was able to structure my day such that I could get in an extended hour (very late) long dinner hour ride on Zwift. For this ride I opted for New York City’s Knickerbocker Reverse … Read more

England, Yorkshire Dales Nidderdale – Stage 1

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For this morning’s climbing ride I took on Tacx Software’s Yorkshire Dales Stage 1 – Nidderdale ride. Heads up: I mucked around with my video capture settings for this ride, in the hope that I could eliminate the OBS encoder overloaded error. Alas, no. I have only succeeded in making the final recording awful quality. … Read more

Barcelona – City Trip

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For this afternoon’s ride I opted for Barcelona City Trip, a Tacx video ride. Billed as an easy ride, this was about 19km of beach front with a couple of short hills thrown in to test the legs. Total climb for the ride was 124m. Those two climbs look fairly steep, though the first climb … Read more

Tuscany, Florence – City Trip

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For this evening’s ride I took on Tuscany, Florence – City Trip, a Tacx Software video ride. I had initially planned on riding another Tacx route – the London city ride. However, when I loaded that up, it turned out to be a GPS only route, which is akin to riding around on Google maps … Read more

Cormet de Roselend Stage 1 – Col du Pré

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For today’s climbing ride I took on Tacx Software’s Cormet de Roselend Stage 1 – Col du Pré. This was labelled as difficult, though I felt it might be easier than Col des Glieres as whilst this was a longer overall climb, the ride was 95% uphill, so in theory, the average gradient should be … Read more