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Riding Home For Christmas

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Christmas Jumper on, lights on the trees, and finally a bit of feeling returning to my legs. All in time for a nice rest day (tomorrow) and the new Star Wars film to enjoy. Fantastic. OK, so it’s been a high stress week in terms of bike activity. On Tuesday I did my second ever … Read more

Not Enough Watts To Keep The Lights On

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For tonight’s ride I opted for a repeat of one of the previous FTP Builder sessions I’ve done before: 6 minutes @ 130w 2 minutes @ 100w Repeated 6 times. After Sunday’s ride I was in too minds all day as to whether to take on a more intensive session (likely SST), or go for … Read more

Calm Before The Storm

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For this afternoon’s ride I opted for an FTP Builder session, repeating Week 9 Day 1. This is a fairly long session at about 1.5 hours, and largely consists of two blocks: 25 min at 130w 10 min at 100w And repeat twice. There’s a 10 minute warm up and a 5 minute cool down. … Read more

Group Workout – Cruise Intervals #1

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This morning I took part in the Cruise Intervals #1 Zwift group workout on London’s Classique circuit. I’ve had a frustrating start to the week in terms of cycling and I’m not sure this was the very best way for me to get back on track. Simply put, late night work commitments wiped me out … Read more

50 Minutes of Light Pedaling

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How do you put on weight? Two meals out in the space of 3 days. Yep. After all that hard work on Sunday, I feel like I’ve reset the clock with two 3-course meals in a very short period. And likely over the Xmas period, things will only get worse. Last night I wanted to … Read more