I always thought that pears had quite a nice shape. But when applied to training ‘maybe not’. My training is on the verge of going pear-shaped in the bad, metaphorical sense. The volume is increasing steadily by half an hour a week. There’s an all-prevalent sense of mild tiredness throughout my body but nothing particularly aches,…
Cyclinganalytics.com have announced an update to their cycling analytical software with a new training load chart (above, nice) and a new CP curve; I think the one below – but, for example, also showing your CP curve compared to the male/female populations ie which centile you are on. Also some other new stuff on the link…
In previous posts I have scoffed a little about ‘Zone 2 training’ which, by now, I have become quite accustomed to. I sort-of noticed the increasing volume as the weeks went by but that was all fine as I was secretly enjoying running/cycling a long way and exploring new bits of my neighbouring areas that…
In case you need 6 tips, here are the first 5 for running a marathon. Sonia, based at Loughborough, did 2:32.
A lot of the Ironman plans I looked at rely on Training Zones. Either POWER zones or HEART RATE training zones. Much of the training is in Zone 1/2. Broadly speaking the Zone 2 to Zone 3 boundary (AeT/LT1) represents going from aerobic to anaerobic. With caveats, this specific boundary is a ‘real thing’ that…
Garmin’s Fenix 5 advertises the use of Training Effect 2.0 and will also be including a new Training Status. This was developed by FIRSTBEAT and announced as long ago as December 2015. As we know FIRSTBEAT are a leading HR-analytics company who partner with Suunto, Huawei, Jabra, Samsung, Sony and others. Indeed many of you…
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