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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

Zwift’s Three Sisters

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Continuing on with my plan of riding one hard climb each week, this week I took on Zwift’s Three Sisters route, which features three of Watopia’s climbs: Hilly KOM Epic KOM Volcano KOM All packed into one 47.7km circuit. Knowing that Zwift love to throw the Hilly KOM at you a little too early (imo), … Read more

Villard-Notre-Dame – Tacx Software

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This morning I continued with my new schedule of tackling one proper climb each week. Today I took on Villard Notre Dame, a video climb provided by Tacx Software. Note that this isn’t a review of the Tacx Software. That is forthcoming, but for reasons that are about to become very clear… or actually, disappointingly … Read more