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Speed sensor or smart trainer: when is the upgrade actually worth it?
Four signs you have outgrown a speed-only setup, what power actually unlocks, and three routes compared — including the one most people overlook, which is a power meter rather than a trainer. Plus the honest case for staying where you are.
Why you stopped getting faster
For two years cycling gives you progress for free. Then one spring it stops. The six causes of a plateau in roughly the order they turn out to be the answer — and the uncomfortable sixth one, which is that you may be measuring the wrong thing.
How long should your intervals be?
Which intervals are best is the wrong question, in a specific and fixable way: length and intensity are one choice, not two. What each duration actually trains, how to pick by what your event demands, and how to progress a session that got easy.
Training camps: the week is only half of it
The most enjoyable training an amateur can do, and one of the most frequently wasted. A sensible day-by-day shape, how much volume is actually sensible, and the fortnight afterwards that decides whether any of it counted.
Fuelling six days back to back
On one long ride, fuelling decides how you feel at the end. On six consecutive long rides it decides whether the week produces fitness at all. The daily rhythm, four traps, and why day four feeling grim is often a food problem wearing a training problem's clothes.
You dehydrate in winter too
Dehydration is a summer problem — that assumption sits behind almost every winter ride and it is wrong. Five reasons riders run short in the cold, what it costs, and the one change that fixes most of it.
Eating abroad without losing a day to it
The food is one of the best parts of a cycling trip and a reliable way to lose a morning. What to sort before you go, how to enjoy local cooking without gambling the queen stage, and when it stops being a fuelling problem.
Gels, drink mix or real food?
There is a mild moral dimension to this argument that does not deserve to be there. The real distinction is mechanical — how fast you need the carbohydrate and how hard you are riding when it arrives. Why most experienced riders end up using all three.
The training diary still beats the dashboard
Your files record what you did, how hard and for how long. What none of it knows is why Thursday collapsed. Six fields worth keeping, thirty seconds a day, and what a season of them lets you see that no metric will.
Training young riders: the principles worth holding
The area of cycling where confident advice does the most damage. Three broad stages, four things to get right, and why the only goal that matters is whether they still want to ride at 25.
The pre-event mechanical checklist, by when to do it
Mechanical problems ruin more amateur events than fitness does, and nearly all of them were visible days earlier. Organised by timing, because most of these checks are useless on race morning — not because they do not matter, but because by then you cannot act on them.
The week before: everything that is not training
The physiology of the taper is a solved problem. This is the other half — admin, travel, packing and the sequence of small decisions that decides whether you reach the start line calm or already tired.
Racing abroad: six things that are not like home
The riding is the familiar part. Licences, race manuals, bunch culture, terrain you cannot rehearse, heat and altitude — and the alpine descent that riders underestimate far more often than the climb.
Navigating without a screen
Every rider eventually has the same afternoon: 80 km out, battery dead, phone on 4%. Five methods in the order you will use them, and why learning the shape of a route beats learning its turns.
Getting out of a city to the good riding
The good roads exist — there are just 45 minutes of traffic lights between you and them. Five strategies, why the exit is a problem you solve once rather than every ride, and the train trick almost nobody uses.
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