Tech Spinning

After this mornings 21km ride, my odometer shows 780km so far for 2014. I didn’t have an odometer for most of last year so this is my first year of tracking my rides. It’s motivating to know that I’m almost at 1000km for the year with plenty of months left, hmm maybe I can try — read more

Perfect weather this morning for a nice long ride. Part of the route was riding on a street along the water and the view was breathtaking. Stopped for breakfast and for once I didn’t have a large meal but just a piece of banana bread and actually felt great riding home. If I do have — read more

Have had a couple of good distant rides this past week. 70.5km last week Friday and 35km this morning. I do need to pace myself for the longer rides as I find using a lot more energy early on in the ride but then feeling fatigued near the end. — read more

Went for a nice ride this morning, lots of cyclists were out and about. Started towards the river loop on the other side of the river but didn’t have time to go all the way around, so turned around after a bit and headed back. I do enjoy riding with friends but today was by — read more

This morning the weather forecast called for rain, but I still set my alarm early just to see if the forecast would hold true. Too many times in the past I have not gotten up early for a ride only to wake up to a dry and sometimes even sunny morning. It was certainly cloudy — read more

Went for my longest ride of the year so far with a few friends. I knew there would be a mountain involved, guess I didn’t realise it would be a 2.3km 9% climb! I wasn’t prepared at all for this level of mountain training and found myself walking the last 500m. I’ll need to train — read more

I’ve been using Endomondo for my rides but yesterday during a long walk noticed a discrepancy with the maximum speed, so decided to try Strava once again. Most, if not all, of my cycling friends use Strava but I always liked the auto pause feature of Endomondo. Not sure if it’s a recent addition to — read more

When I first got my road bike Feb last year, I had a very difficult time adjusting to the clip type pedals and shoes. I started riding on bike paths to try to get used to them, but inevitably every time I stopped, I fell over. I slowly learned to unclip before the actual stop, — read more