Every article about winter training preaches the same gospel: Be consistent. Be structured. Stay disciplined. Optimise everything short of your breathing pattern.
Winter changes everything about riding. The same bike and the same forest suddenly feel unfamiliar. Your speed drops, your rhythm changes and the bike handles differently. Once you accept it for what it is, you start to notice how winter riding becomes its own sport…
January is peak testing season. New year, clean calendar, fresh legs (or at least fresh intentions). Training platforms prompt it, coaches schedule it, and riders brace themselves for twenty minutes of truth. The question isn’t how to test FTP (Functional Threshold Power). You already know…
If you feel slow on the bike in winter, you are not alone, and you are not suddenly out of shape. The cold changes how your body, your bike and even the road behave. Let’s take a closer look at why winter riding feels so…
It starts innocently. Someone mentions a training block. Another casually drops their HRV score like it’s small talk. Before you know it, your group chat is full of lactate thresholds, recovery metrics, and arguments about the correct zone for threshold work (Zone 3? Zone 4?…
Ah, January. A time for fresh starts, bold plans, and lying to ourselves in our ride journals. If you haven’t set at least one cycling goal you’ll completely abandon by the 20th, are you even a cyclist?
Winter riding always tricks me into thinking I don’t need to eat or drink much. The rides are shorter, the pace is lower, and I rarely feel hungry or thirsty in the cold. But that instinct has caused more problems than I expected, especially once…
It’s about time to start doing good on those New Year’s resolutions. You know, the ones you made half-drunk at 11:59 on New Year’s Eve, just to follow a tradition no one really cares about. So, regardless of whether it was about weight loss, looking…
The stretch between Christmas and New Year is meant to be slow. We sit longer, eat more, drive from one warm living room to another, and let the days blur together. For cyclists, that pause often extends into early January. The bike stays indoors. The…
Every year, as the temperatures dip and the roads freeze over, cyclists everywhere face the same internal debate: Should I push through winter or take a proper break? Social feeds filled with icy rides and indoor trainer screenshots can make it feel like everyone else…
