One of my new years resolutions was to endeavour to post more regularly on this site and in an effort not to disappoint myself by failing at the first hurdle I've made the momentous decision to try and post a monthly update on what's been happening on the two wheeled front. Hopefully this may have …
Category: Training (or the lack of)
When Illness strikes – and the winter training plan goes straight down the toilet……..
So the winter training and fitness plan of riding my bikes as much as possible while also going to the gym for finely honed and focused strength training to address my myriad of physical weaknesses has been going really well lately............... not....... Yes in the last couple of months I have achieved precisely zero miles …
Parkrun – It’s part in my downfall (Part 2)
Now both the physical wounds and the mental scars have had time to heal I feel I can try to put into words how my first Parkrun went …… The last track on the radio that was playing when I parked the car in Lichfields Beacon Park pay and display was fittingly The Spencer Davis …
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Parkrun – its part in my downfall…. (Part 1)
Parkrun seems to be a particularly British way for nominally sane people of all ages to spend a Saturday morning. Since the first events in 2004 in Bushy Park in London this now global phenomenon has now grown to over 2000 events in 23 countries around the globe. The premise? anyone can register, turn up …
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Time to admit my Failings !
One of the things I really like about Zwift is the little coloured power graph that shows your effort at the bottom of the screen. The only trouble is it works off your last recorded FTP and if like me you haven’t done nearly enough riding lately to maintain your previously fantastic levels of fitness, …
A Tale of two rides (Part 2) Zwift Racing!
I had a nice easy indoor Zwift ride planned for the day after my mountain biking escapades, you know the sort of thing - an easy hour or so just to shake the previous days efforts out of the legs. No record-setting planned, or PB chasing on the climbs, just a nice easy bimble round …
I’m not the rider I could be, and I’m cool with that.
There I've said it. It's out in the open. The secret is out, and the angst in my cyclists soul is laid bare, but that's fine. You see they say with age comes wisdom and experience. Well I'm not sure about wisdom and all experience seems to tell me is that getting up in the …
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Training With Zwift – Indoor pain for hopefully outdoor gains…….
So I've been using Zwift for a few weeks now and according to my online stats on the Zwift app I've ridden 262 miles, climbed 24,300 feet and burned 27 slices of pizza. To be honest I'm not entirely sure of the relevance or meaning of that last stat, but burning virtual pizza slices seems …
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Zwift -Half a Million Users Can’t beWrong?
I'd been tracking the rider in front for over a mile. As we started the climb they were hovering tantalisingly out of reach just up the road. As the gradient hit over seven percent and my frantic clicking of my right hand shifter met its end stop I could see them at the edge of …
Torture by Treadmill – Cross Training Pain for Probably Very Little Gain.
I ran 5 kilometres on a treadmill this morning. This is easily the furthest I've run indoors or indeed out for at least 10 years. Now sitting in my kitchen writing this over an hour later I'm still waiting for the random muscle spasms in my right calf muscle to subside, and as the old …
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The Declining Cyclist 