I love cycling outdoors. If the
weather is great and the scenery is fantasic.
That may sound like I'm hard to
please but I make this specification for a couple of reasons:
Firstly, I have cycled many tens of
thousands of miles on pretty much every type of road from motorways
(by mistake ofc) to boulder strewn mountain bike tracks (which my
Garmin navigated me down because it thought they were a cycle lane).
I have also done so in every type of weather condition from 40C+ in
the blazing sun and sub zero in a white out blizzard (the latter
descending the Stelvio, one of my more interesting days on a bike.)
I like variety but I think I have had my share of it now and so, as
above, I limit my rides outdoors for when the sun is shining and
there is more to see than passing cars and hedgerows.
Secondly, I started riding to lose
weight and get fit and these remain my primary objectives.
Round
where I live the only place where I can train safely at the power I
enjoy riding at are roads with lots of traffic. Visibility and hazards
(e.g. potholes and wildlife) it impossible to ride at high power
down narrow country lanes without putting myself or others at risk.
So now I spend most of my time
training indoors, previously on Rouvy, now on Zwift. This lets me
ride at the intensity I want to and the competition Zwift brings in
allowing you to ride against others both helps me keep my power up
and makes time fly by.
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