Getting fit through indoor cycling
As it rained all morning, and heavily too, by the time I’d finished my mornings computer work (busy adding a site search facility to bikeclimbs.com) the roads outdoors didn’t look dry enough to head outdoors without getting filthy. And anyway, I would probably overdo it outdoors, so decided an hour on the turbo, doing an Active … Read more
For this afternoon’s ride I opted for an SST session, hitting Yorkshire’s Tour of Tewit Well route. The big “mistake” as such I made on this one was to go at too high a cadence. For whatever reason I couldn’t seem to stop myself from spinning closer to 100rpm – averaging 99rpm for the ride … Read more
Amazing. I managed to get a solid nights sleep last night. No waking up early. No waking up… at all. Just a good, uninterrupted sleep right through till the mid morning, which in my house means 8.20am. That doesn’t mean I woke up fresh and ready to go, however. I was rudely awoken by my … Read more
Saturday’s can be a tricky one for me. I often want to ride, but have little time to do anything substantial. I’m also conscious of not doing too much ahead of a bigger Sunday ride. Combine this with pushing myself hard in yesterday’s race and I wasn’t quite sure what to do with my limited … 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