Pedaling Thoughts

Pedaling Thoughts

Pedaling thoughts What is a blog actually? What’s it for? Why do one? Just a few of the questions I have been asking myself whilst spending hours on my bike with only me to talk to. When I decided to first make a blog for my ride across America, it was really aimed at...
What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

My new bike   Before any of you worry about my relationship with Irma, she is great and now sits comfortably in my Zwift training pain cave. We ride for hours together in a virtual world of mountains, deserts and city streets. This feels like the perfect place...
Zwifting!

Zwifting!

What is Zwift? Who are Zwifter’s? Where the hell is Watopia?   Some of the questions I had when I decided to look into the world of virtual cycling. I became interested in this indoor world of cycling for a number of reasons. It seemed it would be a good option...
The Training Cycle. (A game of snakes and ladders)

The Training Cycle. (A game of snakes and ladders)

The training cycle, a game of “Snakes and ladders”. FTP, VO2 max, RPM. These are now the acronyms that fill my life. I know when I was a nurse I first became how much acronyms are used and how much marketing, training and planning professionals love them. The only...
Sebring 24

Sebring 24

Me, and my impulses, have often led to some crazy adventures, meeting many great people and/or giving me some life changing experiences. I am impulsive for sure. A magazine article that once got me mad enough to send my one and only reply to such a thing, led me to...
Back in the saddle

Back in the saddle

After I crossed the finish line at Boston in 2018, and dipped my bike into the Atlantic, in the same way I’d left the Pacific, having ridden “every foot and inch’ across a continent, life returned back to its previous normal.   As life changing as that experience...