Setting expectations for the first race of the season, race tactics for when you miss the break, what to eat during a rest week and more is all covered in Episode 242 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast. Youtube Live Video: [First Race Expectations, Beating the Breakaway, Rest Week Diets a…

They should really hire Chad as a trainer road expert/faq/troubleshooting guy. I’m almost convinced at this point he knows more about tr than Nate,Jonathon, or Chad :joy:

“Slack” doesn’t directly refer to the suspension. It definitely does refer to the geometry. But there is for sure a very strong correlation that more slack bikes have more travel. I think what Nate was saying is that in MTB slack angles usually also come with more and a different suspension platf…

VeloNews did a tech Podcast on the Chamois Hagar…haven’t listened to it yet, but I would imagine it is similar to the video review I posted above. [image] Tech Podcast: Evil's Chamois Hagar shakes up gravel geometry Evil Bikes sought to upend conventional thinking about what a gravel bi…

I guess slack could refer to tire size then. There would be a strong correlation that more slack bikes have larger tires.

Regarding the adding of notes post workout how about utilising something along the lines of what Whoop do at the end of an activity and pop up a short questionnaire? Taking 2 mins at the end of a workout to key in a few important facts could prove really useful in terms of us reviewing our own histo…

Some related Feature Requests in place (surely not all of them, but the ones I could find quickly): Feature request: Record nutrition taken during workout RPE survey after completing a ride (Feature Request) Feature request - annotations during workouts

Yeah the first one is mine @mcneese.chad , would be great if there was a central repository of feature requests with a status of: Rejected Being considered In development Being tested Due for deployment Above are just some status examples, much the way Microsoft and their UserVoice platform ope…

Thanks for the link. Great interview and discussion about the geometry. It parallels the discussion from the TR podcast, and goes beyond.

If you are watching at work it might be blocked by your IT department

Again…Though there might be a correlation of tire size to ‘slack’ geometry, ‘slack’ does not refer to that either. It maybe be inferred when you say ‘slack’ but that is not what it is referring to.

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Some related Feature Requests in place (surely not all of them, but the ones I could find quickly):

Feature request: Record nutrition taken during workout
RPE survey after completing a ride (Feature Request)
Feature request - annotations during workouts

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