Well I'm back on the turbo. Almost two years ago when I first started this blog I wrote a post extolling the virtues of the turbo trainer. (If you scroll down far enough you can read it later if you want ) Like a lot of my posts seem to be it was filled with …
Category: Training (or the lack of)
Knee Pain In An Ageing Cyclist – a guide to ignoring the symptoms, then misguided internet based diagnosis and finally inept attempts at self-treatment followed by weeks of wincing.
Well, as I've mentioned before my knee hurts. Its grumbled on and off for a good few years. It likes to remind me of the misuse and neglect I've subjected my moving parts to since I've been capable of moving around under my own steam. It likes to remind me that I'm not 21 and …
Training in Hotel Gym’s – A Special Sort of Purgatory (Populated by some very strange people)
A recent extended trip away with work has kept be off the bike for over a month. In the last 40 odd days I've stayed in about 15 different hotels in various countries from Chile to Australia. Sounds idyllic? Well, somebody has to do it I suppose but it certainly doesn't do anything for ones …
Knee Pain – Continue riding or rest up? (man-up or laze-up?)
As we enter a period of what our weather forecast professionals tell us could be an Indian Summer my body which as been relatively creak free all through yet another wet miserable British summer has decided to celebrate the warmer temperatures by throwing its metaphorical teddy out of the pram. My left knee is sending all the …
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Indoor Pain, is there any gain?
Turbo training - unpleasant sweaty bore festival or useful addition to the cyclist's training schedule? I have to admit to being in the latter camp until fairly recently. Like many riders a turbo trainer had been gathering dust at the back of my garage for many years. Bought one winter in a fit of optimism …
The Declining Cyclist 