Getting fit through indoor cycling
A tad unexpected, and completely unplanned. Today I took part in the Standard ride for this years Stage 1 of the Tour de Zwift 2021. Yesterday I did the longer ride. Within 2km of setting off, even with a decent-ish 10 minute warm up, I was hurting. I’m out of the habit of doing longer, … Read more
Well, this wasn’t the ride I was expecting to do. I was planning on doing one of the longer 3R workouts that run every Tuesday and which, due to kids swimming lessons, I rarely get to attend. But when I looked at the Zwift event schedule for today, I was gently reminded that the Tour … Read more
This afternoon’s race was the final event (for me at least) of the Tour of Watopia 2020. This race was one lap of the Yorkshire / Harrogate forward circuit, basically a single lap repeat of Thursday night’s group ride. I managed to get on about 10 minutes early today. Not really enough time for a … Read more
For this evening’s ride I took part in the Tour de Zwift: Stage 7 – Long Distance, my last group ride of the 2020 Tour de Zwift, but not my last ride of the tour. This ride was two laps of Zwift’s Yorkshire / Harrogate circuit, the full front / forward loop. Each lap is … Read more
For this evening’s ride I took part in the Tour de Zwift: Stage 6 Race (C) on the Richmond circuit. This was the penultimate race in the Tour de Zwift 2020, and to be very honest, I almost missed it. After a 11 hour day in front of the computer, combined with yesterday’s long, and … Read more