Getting fit through indoor cycling
Three days into the week, and already 5 rides. Phew. Partly this is due to my rather silly attempt at the British Cycling Ride Seven Challenge. Why this event in particular? My two reasons are really sporting: I like the colour scheme of the badge I want a badge. Any badge. It’s frankly quite unlikely … Read more
Today’s ride was a mixture of good and bad. Let’s start with the bad. I neglected to start my fan before riding. For the first 1-3km (the warm up), I find having the massive fan blasting in my face to be really quite annoying. My kids love to come in and watch whilst I’m spinning … Read more
What’s the most fun you can have riding 30km in your dining room on a grey and gloomy Sunday morning? If you answered: Touring Watopia with 800 other indoor cyclists, then you’d be absolutely right. I was nervous about this ride. Would I be able to finish it? Would I be dead last — or … Read more
Having spent another 30 minutes last night trying to index my gears, and fix the click-clack sound of my chain rubbing against the front derailleur, I thought this mornings ride would be problem free. Alas, I am still experiencing some phantom shifting around the mid ring (idk the correct name) on the rear cassette. Not … Read more