Getting fit through indoor cycling
Much like when I did the Bologna Time Trial the other evening, I had no intention of doing a race for today’s ride until about 5 minutes before the event was due to start. Day 1 of my holiday and I’m already feeling a bit bored. Self imposed computer exile is not something that sits … Read more
For tonight’s ride I opted to take on … well, New York initially. I opted for one of Zwift’s 4 Week FTP builder workouts, thinking I’d put in a solid hour. However, inadvertently, I clicked on the 5pm Time Trial (starting about ~8 minutes from when I got on the bike) and I couldn’t figure … Read more
Whew. Tonight was really too hot for indoor cycling. The room felt stuffy before I even got on the bike, and the fan, spinning on the middle setting – usually more than enough to keep me suitably chilly (pre-ride, at least) was doing little. I had about 30 minutes to kill. I wanted to get … Read more
Due to some unexpected work commitments I didn’t get to ride yesterday evening after work. That sucked. Then Saturday’s are always a bit of a weird one for me in terms of when I might get a ride in. Typically it happens early afternoon, but today, my wife was on Zwift instead! Outrageous. So i … Read more
For yesterday evening’s ride I opted for Zwift’s London 8 route, which is essentially the Classique and Box Hill combined. In total this works out to be about 20km + ~230m of climb. As I couldn’t work out how fresh I was feeling, I decided that I’d take it easy and see how I got … Read more