Getting fit through indoor cycling
Friday night. Always a good time. I managed to get my work-work to a good point in time for clocking off, and blogged my Richmond ride from earlier this morning. With some time to kill waiting for the wife and kids to get home from grand parental activities, I figured why not hit the bike … Read more
This morning I took on the Richmond’s 2015 UCI Worlds Course, a 16.1km circuit with 157m of climb. I have ridden this course before, and on that attempt, I made some terrible mistakes on both climbs. I was hoping to put those issues to bed on this attempt. In some ways, Richmond’s UCI Worlds Course … Read more
On Tuesday night, I set about trying to figure out if my recent performances have been going sideways (rather than upwards) due to new pedals / shoes. After a bit of mucking around, I thought I’d sussed out how to pedal “properly” in shoes with clips / cleats, whatever the correct terminology would be. In … Read more
Climbing Alpe Du Zwift at 9am on a Bank Holiday weekend Sunday. I wouldn’t have done this out of choice. But I did it anyway thanks to the Tour of Watopia 2019. If giving people who wouldn’t normally climb the Alpe a real sense of achievement is what Zwift were after, then I think they … Read more
This ride was probably a mistake. Perhaps I could have ridden ~25km, but I should have gone on a flat. Tomorrow morning, 9am, I have Stage 6 of the Tour of Watopia, and honestly, I feel pretty rough after this one. A rest day would almost certainly have been a better idea. It might have … Read more