Tour De Zwift 2021 – Stage 1: Standard Ride

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

Tour De Zwift 2021 – Stage 1: Longer Ride

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

Off We Go For 2021

It might not have been the world’s most intensive workout, but getting my fat, lazy backside on the bike on day one of 2021 was “good enough”. I’ve been refraining from weighing myself during December. Why? No idea. I have gotten out of the habit of doing so. So during this ride I made the … Read more

Last Ride of 2020

Please excuse any glaring typos or grammar mistakes in this post. As I write this, on my phone (which I have massively broken due to dropping it whilst cleaning my bike) I’ve definitely been guilty of over indulging this Christmas. It’s a combination of the usual festive feasting, “drowning” of one’s sorrows, and a kind … Read more