Most century ride advice comes down to “eat something every 20 minutes” and a list of someone else’s favourite gels. That works until mile 60, when vague guidance turns into a bonk nobody saw coming. A century is long enough that small fuelling mistakes compound over the day: too little carbohydrate and the legs run
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In my early 30s I could skip recovery work for weeks and barely notice. Missed the foam roller, skipped stretching, still hit my paces without much trouble. That doesn’t work anymore. I’m 41 now, training around 12 hours a week, and if I go more than a couple of days without dedicated recovery work, I
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Your watch handed you five heart rate zones the day you took it out of the box. It worked them out from your age and nothing else. Every zone session you have done since is built on an assumption about an average person who is not you. The fix does not need a lab, a
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You are two minutes into a run, the watch says 178, and you are fairly confident you are not dying. So you spend the next half hour quietly negotiating with a number on your wrist. I wanted to stop guessing, so I ran a track session wearing a Forerunner 265 on one arm and an
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Pick up five gels and you will find at least three different carb ratios on the back. Maurten prints 1:0.8. Precision Fuel prints 2:1. SiS reformulated Beta Fuel a few years ago and now sells both numbers across its range. Each brand talks about its number like it settled an argument, which is odd, because
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Nothing ends a good run faster than a sudden negotiation with your gut about whether you are going to make it home. It happens to beginners on their first long run and to experienced marathoners on race morning, which is the annoying part. Fitness does not protect you. Most runners assume it is random, decide
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For years the screenless tracker category was basically one product with a subscription attached. That changed fast. Google launched the Fitbit Air in May 2026 at CA$129.99, and Garmin announced the CIRQA Smart Band on 21 July 2026 at CA$279.99, both of them subscription-optional. Whoop now has two direct competitors aimed squarely at the same
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You buy a new saddle. Then a different saddle. Then better bibs, then chamois cream. Nothing quite kills the ache in your lower back or the hands that go numb after an hour. That was me for a while. I kept treating the symptoms and never looked at the thing causing them, which was how
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Your watch shows you a VO2 max number, and it feels weirdly official. Mine crept up over a training block and I wanted to believe it. But the watch never measured my oxygen. It made an educated guess off heart rate and pace. So the fair question, and the one worth answering before you get
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Here is a pattern that shows up in almost every beginner’s training log. Every run sits in the same narrow band of pace. The easy days are not really easy, and the hard days are not really hard. It all feels productive, because every run leaves the legs a little tired. That constant tiredness is
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