Getting fit through indoor cycling
I picked the Gotham Grind route on Zwift’s New York map today, just to tick off the route badge really. I’m sure I’ve done most of these routes before, but for whatever reason it doesn’t seem to have registered loads of them. No big deal, it gives me plenty of things to check off whenever … Read more
With just three more riding days remaining I am hoping for some kind of second third fourth wind to kick in and see me through. Of all the days so far, today was the hardest. With the Zwift Less than 30 minutes to burn workouts, most of them involve some kind of threshold or greater … Read more
Wew, tough one today. Tougher than I expected. Spaded Sweetie was the name of today’s workout, but the graphics below come from Whats On Zwift. If you don’t know that site, it’s by far the best place to find workouts – both built in, and custom ones you can download and import. The Spaded Sweetie … Read more
Before I was forced indoors I had devised a new strategy to try to get over my anxiety of doing FTP tests. Clearly I have an aversion to doing them – which I think is understandable as, frankly, they suck – but they are a necessary evil. Turns out I’ve been avoiding the ones on … Read more
Right then, another day of two workouts in a row. Opting for the “short” variants to get all of the six workouts done in a week, I wasn’t sure what to expect from these two today. The main metric I had paid attention to was Duration. Doing workouts #3 and #4 on Thursday I was … Read more