Tour of Watopia 2023 | Stage 3 | Short

I rarely chose to do climbing rides when I’m left to my own devices. Usually I’ll opt for structured workouts so it doesn’t really matter what the terrain is showing on screen, I just pootle along at the target wattage as instructed. During these Tour of Whatever rides though, I seem to find myself going … Read more

Zwift Race London: Stage 3 – London Classique Reverse (B)

Good afternoon race fans. You’ve heard of the Formula 1. You’ve likely heard of the Grand National. But have you ever heard of Zwift’s Race London series, and its world renowned solidly middle of the pack B category riders such as yours truly? What do you mean, no? Outrageous. Well, Tuesday lunch times. 12:10 GMT. … Read more

Not The Right Ride

The last two days have been fairly high effort rides. Short (under an hour, anyway), but fast (enough). Today should have been an endurance ride. But Zwift don’t massively cater for the “Endurance in Under 30 minutes” type of workouts. Probably because the statement is a total contradiction. Anyway, I should have done a custom … Read more

Tour of Watopia 2023 | Stage 2 | Short

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

Zwift Race London: Stage 2 – London Loop (B)

Oof, a nasty one today. One that caught me out. I have definitely completed the London Loop route before, but the gotcha on this race was that it was 1.5 laps… so we hit Box Hill twice. I’d had a dental appointment this morning so it wasn’t like I hadn’t had time to do a … Read more