Training 2026 week 8: Schrödinger’s VO₂ Max
Indoor Training update This week I increased my indoor training sessions from 60 minutes to 90 minutes. Sixty minutes no longer felt like training. It felt like warming up before …
Training 2026 Week 7: Plans Were Made, Life Responded
This week, life decided it would happen with complete disregard for our carefully constructed plans. The intention was clear: a 160 km (99 miles) ride in Niffer. Reality, however, had …
Training 2026 Week 6: The haunting subsides
This was the week where things finally started looking up, in the quiet, deeply comforting sense that cause and effect had re-entered the chat, after a brief but alarming absence. …
Training 2026 Week 5: When everything surfaced at once
I have to admit: writing this week’s blog post wasn’t easy. Things weren’t flowing. Not on the bike, not mechanically, and not emotionally. We were both tired, a little frustrated, …
Winter training: When Everything Feels a Bit… Wobbly
This week felt slower than planned. Not just on the bike, but mentally too. I started training cautiously, partly because I was sick last week, and partly because December happened. …
Training 2025-12-05
It’s been a while since I last wrote about a training ride. This is partly because I nearly always ride the same loop, and partly because I’ve moved most of …
Why I switched to training (mostly) indoors
I haven’t posted a ride in a while. Partly because I ride the same route most days, and partly because there are only so many pictures of your bicycle you can …
Bike to Work challenge 2025
When my coworker Max asked if I wanted to join his Bike to Work team, I didn’t hesitate, of course I was in! I’ve done the challenge before and felt like it …
Cycling back to myself – Part II
It’s been a few days, and I’ve had time to reflect on my dilemma. I’ve made a decision. Here are the facts: I am a woman. I am a wife, …
Cycling back to myself
The truth is, this dream I have, to finish the RATN, didn’t begin as a dream at all. Back when I worked in the ICU, my life revolved around late …