Getting fit through indoor cycling
The aim of this ride was to just about tick over into tempo, or be at the higher end of endurance. Typically my Saturday rides as of late have been harder climbing rides. I’ve not fared particularly well on those, but that wasn’t the reason for today’s swap. The idea today was simply to take … Read more
I’m really knackered. Not sure if it’s having ridden yesterday or what, but I was feeling it in the legs before I even started today. Not helped by Zwift crashing twice, meaning I spent ~10 minutes mucking around and rebooting before I even got the clock started. It seems odd to me that a walk … Read more
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
Unsurprisingly I was a little too tired today to do the typical Tuesday race. Instead I opted for Workout #3 in the Zwift Spring Training series. This was the Hairpin Wizard workout: This workout consisted of two blocks. Both were identical, featuring a 30 second ramp – more on that in a second, followed by … Read more
There’s no denying it, this years Tour of Watopia has some ambitiously sized routes. Certainly ambitious when it comes to week day riding, at least for me. The short ride is Watopia’s Waistband – 26km and mostly flat. The standard ride is Out and Back Again, 40km with 300m of climbing. And the longer ride… … Read more