Journal · The Bike
The Bike.
Power, position, FTP, and time on the road.
Articles
6 pieces
Power Tells You What You Did. Heart Rate Tells You What It Cost.
Two riders finish the same three hours at the same average watts and one of them is wrecked. Power is output and heart rate is price, and the number that comes from having both is the most honest endurance test you can run.
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TSS, CTL, ATL, TSB, in Plain English.
Four acronyms describing one simple idea. Fitness is what you have built, fatigue is what you are carrying, form is the difference. What the numbers m
Getting Back on After a Crash.
What impact does to the nervous system, why the fear that arrives afterwards is not weakness, and a graded return to riding that respects the body and
Six Thirty on a Tuesday, in the Dark.
Nobody has ever wanted to be there at six thirty in February. That is precisely why it works. What a weekly ride in Regents Park taught me about consi
The Aero Position That Cost Me the Run.
I bought twenty watts of aerodynamics and paid four minutes of running for them. What I learned about hip angle, and the test I now make every athlete
FTP Is Not a Personality Trait.
I have watched athletes tie their self worth to one number on a screen. What FTP actually governs, what it cannot tell you, and how I use it.
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The full framework is in the book.
Everything in these articles points back to the R.A.C.E. Framework. The book puts it all together in one place.
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