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News March 31, 2020

Why is better controversial?

I think we could pretty much bucket every one of the “controversies” outlined in this video into those who don’t want to change, and those who embrace new tech (warts and all). I must fall into that second bucket, because on every single one, I’m solidly in the in-with-the-new crowd: ✅ disc brakes, ✅ road tubeless, ✅e-bikes are OK, ✅gravel bikes,✅indoor training. The video is kind of lame, with BikeRadar being very,…

Blog March 30, 2020

Missing the rep

I thought it was just a fluke, but it turns out that it’s every, single, lifting workout where my Garmin watch gets the rep count totally, and completely, wrong. Today was a new low, with zero detected repetitions during my “leg/back day” strength workout. How can it be this bad? With some basic searching out of the way, it doesn’t look like I’m alone in this either. The general consensus is that…

News March 23, 2020

Cover your base

Like every video Dylan puts out, this one is an excellent, science based examination of whether training helps/hurts your immune system and what you should do given that every early summer event is getting postponed or canceled. You’ll have to watch the video to get the skinny, but I know what I’ll be doing. Working on base in the vain hope that this will have blown over by mid-summer, and we can…

Blog March 2, 2020

Train indoors, ride outside

I get that not everyone will agree with me here, but I’ve found that I just can’t do structured training outside. Some of this is based on where I live, but most of it comes down to other factors that introduce variability. Which is bad because it makes the structure, less structured, and much of the value is in the structure. While it’s possible that what limits me doesn’t limit you, but…

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