Training

Most runners and cyclists have seen the number. It shows up every morning on your Garmin, your Whoop, your Polar. Two digits, sometimes with a coloured status next to it, and absolutely no explanation of what you are supposed to do about it. That number is your HRV score, and it is more useful than […]

Most recreational athletes train too hard. Not race-hard : just hard enough that their easy days aren’t really easy, and their hard days aren’t hard enough to matter. The result is a lot of middle-ground effort that doesn’t produce much of anything. Zone 2 and Zone 3 sit right at the centre of this problem.

If you’ve registered for your first triathlon, you’ve probably heard someone mention brick workouts. Maybe at a club run, maybe in a Facebook group, maybe in a race forum where everyone seems to already know what everyone else is talking about. A brick workout is simply two disciplines done back to back in a single

Typing “make me a 12-week training plan” into ChatGPT will get you something back. It might look plausible. It might even be vaguely appropriate for someone. But it probably won’t be appropriate for you: your fitness level, your injury history, your schedule, your goal race. The output is only as good as what you put

Your GPS watch has heart rate zones. Your training plan probably references them. But if you’ve ever finished a “Zone 2” run feeling like you just raced, or cruised through a threshold workout wondering if you even did anything — your zones are probably wrong. Most are. The default settings on watches and apps are