Etape du Tour 2018 – Col de Romme

For this morning’s ride I took on Tacx Software’s Etape du Tour 2018 – Col de Romme. This is a 16km ride, of which I think somewhere between 10 and 11km of the distance is uphill. There’s 835m of marked climb, but about 875m in the ride in total. The average gradient for this one … Read more

England, Yorkshire Dales Nidderdale – Stage 1

For this morning’s climbing ride I took on Tacx Software’s Yorkshire Dales Stage 1 – Nidderdale ride. Heads up: I mucked around with my video capture settings for this ride, in the hope that I could eliminate the OBS encoder overloaded error. Alas, no. I have only succeeded in making the final recording awful quality. … Read more

Tuscany, Florence – City Trip

For this evening’s ride I took on Tuscany, Florence – City Trip, a Tacx Software video ride. I had initially planned on riding another Tacx route – the London city ride. However, when I loaded that up, it turned out to be a GPS only route, which is akin to riding around on Google maps … Read more

Cormet de Roselend Stage 1 – Col du Pré

For today’s climbing ride I took on Tacx Software’s Cormet de Roselend Stage 1 – Col du Pré. This was labelled as difficult, though I felt it might be easier than Col des Glieres as whilst this was a longer overall climb, the ride was 95% uphill, so in theory, the average gradient should be … Read more

Ik Fietste Naar Amsterdam

For tonight’s birthday ride I decided – at the very last minute – to switch out from my scheduled Zwift FTP Builder active recovery ride to instead, cycle into Amsterdam through the Tacx Software. An easy ride that Starts with the local cyclist’s favourite countryside polder based lap called the Ronde Hoep and finishing with … Read more