Recovery Weeks

This week is a scheduled recovery week. I’ve been building up the duration and intensity of my training (both indoors and outdoors) over the past few weeks and I am feeling the fatigue. Historically, I don’t do recovery weeks well. I have a tendency to go all out, all the time, week after week. If…

2022 Resolution Ride #03 – Fast and Furious in Melbourne

You know those days where you leave for a cruisy 100km, but end up smashing out a fast paced and hectic 160+ instead? No? Just me? Hmmm. It’s been a while between imperial centuries and as with my other 100 mile rides, this one wasn’t planned. The legs felt good, so it just kind of…

The end of summer

Overnight, the calendar turned to March. Down here in the southern hemisphere, that means we’ve also turned the page on Summer 2021/2022. Yep. It’s officially Autumn. The mornings have started to develop a slight chill and the keen eye would have noticed shadows growing longer earlier in the evenings. Those long, warm summer nights are…

Check out: Fit Recovery

My American brother-from-another-mother Big Jim over at Fit Recovery recently rolled over ONE MILLION VIEWS on his website. How cool is that? He’s a cyclist, father, husband, and all-round damn good guy writing about cycling and recovery from addiction (and about bowling too, for some reason 😜). A man of many wise words who can…

2022 Resolution Ride #02 – Another Sunny SunDaze

February. The second month of the year and officially the last month of summer down here in the Southern Hemisphere. I’m sure there’s still plenty of hot sunny days left yet and it’s way too soon to think about fading warmth and fading tans. With that in mind, it was another early Sunday roll-out to…

Ten percent of the year!

That’s right folks, time marches on and a whopping 10% of 2022 has already passed us by! I hope you’ve all been making the most of every single day above the weeds. January was a busy month for me. It’s always a high volume month at FulGaz, then throw in a trip to the Tour…