Like A Rude Mr. Miyagi

Hard on, hard off. Yesterday I did an FTP Test, today I figured I’d go easy on myself. Actually I took the laptop with me today, that table is proving very useful. What that meant was I spent the full hour totally disengaged from Zwift. That’s ideal as frankly these endurance rides are rather boring. … Read more

Zwift Academy Road: [Short] Workout 6 | Push the Pain Barrier

Already very sweaty and wet from doing Workout #5 in the same session, I was more than warmed up for this ride. This one caught me off guard as I hadn’t realised there were only 15 second gaps between the first 5x 30’s. In fact I only realised this on the fourth effort – yes, … Read more

Zwift Academy Road: [Short] Workout 5 | Pyramids

Right then, another day of two workouts in a row. Opting for the “short” variants to get all of the six workouts done in a week, I wasn’t sure what to expect from these two today. The main metric I had paid attention to was Duration. Doing workouts #3 and #4 on Thursday I was … Read more

Zwift Academy Road: [Short] Workout 4 | Depleting Workout

The second of today’s two Zwift Academy Road 2022 rides was the fun sound Depleting Workout: With workout #3 done, I guess I was already feeling kinda depleted. More so than I suspect they had in mind for most people doing the workout. Being a bit of a chimp I hadn’t realised the first three … Read more