Getting fit through indoor cycling
For this morning’s ride I resumed my “Sunday hard climb” routine, today opting for Zwift’s Alpe Du Zwift. I was somewhat surprised yesterday to realise it’s been 4 months since I last made this ascent. On my last attempt I made the climb in 1h 11m 44s, and my goal today was to do anything … Read more
For this evening’s ride I took on the Tour de Zwift: Stage 2 Race (Innsbruck) in category C. In short this is two laps of the Innsbruckring (8.8km) with ~70m of climb per lap courtesy of the “leg snapper”. Typically I would not choose to ride, let alone race at night. But due to some … Read more
As covered in last week’s weekly review, and mentioned several times over the last month or two, I really wanted to get an FTP test done and dusted before the end of 2019. My goal was to finish the year at, or ideally above 200w as an FTP. Given that I had a rest on … 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
In much the same way as yesterday I really didn’t want to get out of bed this morning. Being rudely awoken three times in the night by my kids, I was in no mood to get up “early” and get my backside on the bike. Part of the reasoning for not wanting to jump on … Read more