Getting fit through indoor cycling
Tuesday means kicking off the riding week with a Sweet Spot Training (SST) session. It doesn’t seem to matter that I have a reduced FTP at the moment, as these sessions always feel hard no matter what targets I have to hit. By the fourth interval I am more than ready for it to be … Read more
Tired today. Not helped by the return of the muggy heat, spiking my room temperature to a frothy 28c average during this ride. The sweat was real. It was only a few minutes into this SST session that I remembered my plan had been to do another of the Climb Portal rides today. The thing … Read more
Tuesday used to be race day. I think for the foreseeable future it’s going to switch to SST day. This should mean it’s SST Tuesday (Sweet Spot Tuesday, got a nice ring to it), then an endurance ride on Wednesday / tomorrow, with the weekly race then taking place on a Thursday. I feel this … Read more
Is there any wonder my FTP Test result was so poor when the last time I did an SST session was back in February? Well, actually that’s not quite accurate. My last attempted SST session was in April. But I failed to complete that workout. After that, I was less confident about being able to … Read more
Sounds efficient. Sadly, it was quite the failure. Last night I went out and pushed too hard, silly me. I knew I didn’t have much time before the sunlight faded so I went fast for 20 minutes, overdoing it on what absolutely should have been a rest day. And then today, thinking that I might … Read more