Getting fit through indoor cycling
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
Bad times. As covered before, I have been using a Gorilla Pod to mount my phone on my bike handlebars which I can then easily see the Zwift Companion App whilst riding. This makes it easy to take screenshots for this blog, along with quickly changing camera angles, giving ride ons, and stuff like that. … Read more
For tonight’s after work ride I got lucky – it was Innsbruck, one of my favourite maps. I opted for a climb, taking on the 2018 UCI Worlds Short Lap, a 23.6km route taking in both the Innsbruckring and Innsbruck KOM, a 7.4km climb with an average gradient of 5% over 400m. To begin with, … Read more
Well tonight’s ride was a strange one. Actually, today overall has been a bit of a strange one. Some work related stuff ended up consuming most of my day – but not the software development kind. Anyway, I don’t want to dwell on that. After last nights ride I wanted to get a good hour … Read more