Getting fit through indoor cycling
Another day, another slog to get myself on the bike. My legs are tired and my mind isn’t in it. However, once I was on today I enjoyed it. Mostly though, this was because I spent the entire ride watching GCN’s Zwift Academy 2022 Finale episode. Whilst I think last years series was a better … Read more
Catch up. That was the order of the day. I missed Stage 2 as a group ride due to being late for the event as it took waaaay longer than expected applying the 1.31 Zwift patch. At the time I then did Suki’s Playground by complete coincidence as a Pace Partner Robo Pacer ride. Only … Read more
Another day, another intensive ride. This time on the sixth and final stage of this years(?) Tour of Makuri Islands. For this one we would be hitting up a new route: Country to Coastal, a 33.5km route with 286m of climbing. There are three climbs in this route that make up the majority of those … Read more
For a while now I’ve been finishing rides and the Garmin has been quick to inform me that my FTP needs updating. And no, I don’t mean upwards. Now, normally I just dismiss the prompt as my theory goes that if I wasn’t intentionally doing a max effort, what the heck use is an updated … Read more
On to Stage 3 we move – but crucially (and rather confusingly) not for races. At least, not yet. I quite like that the breaks between Tour of Makuri Islands stages for racing is longer than that for the group rides. The truth of it is that this morning I didn’t feel ready / rested … Read more