Andrew

If I was buying a smart trainer, I reckon I’d either go for the Tacx Neo or the Elite Direto (no ‘c’), perhaps the Wahoo KICKR CORE (yes, capitalised).. Looking at the relevant article on the support section of the Strava website, I’d say that their methodology hasn’t changed at all (I can see I borrowed some terms from their article that are still there). Whilst I haven’t ‘trained with power’ (worked out my power zones; built a training programme around them), using a power meter definitely gave a sense of the power I could sustain for a given period of time. If I leave a battery in the power meter after I’ve finished a ride, and leave it overnight, by the next day it’s totally drained.

I know that organisers of, say, the Tour de France spend ages determining the specific route each year (although that’s as much about fleecing start and finish towns for cash as it is about making the route interesting for riders and spectators). Paul’s mission, he said, was to reveal to the participants of his sportives a delicious selection of the hidden gem roads and climbs that he’s explored and catalogued since he was a young whippersnapper. Sometimes (if it’s my brother-in-law), I’ll plot a route for them to ride solo (and even go so far as to load it into their Garmin). To Paul’s point, there’s no point me planning a route for someone that will make them thoroughly miserable or which they’re simply unable to complete.

Gweetings. In this post I’m going to talk about the bike tools I use the most on my magical cycling adventures

Skip to content I’m very fortunate, as a cyclist, to live where I do. I live on a quiet country lane which sees as many tractors as it sees cars