We’re back from Christmas break and a San Diego track camp, and Brian has… feelings. This episode is his full New Year’s rant on modern cycling: riders glued to screens, terrified of rain, obsessing over 30-second power numbers while forgetting how to actually race a bike. Zwift “races,” gadgets, and data addiction all go into the line of fire.
Chuck and Brian dig into what went wrong at Masters Worlds, how over-focusing on metrics can blunt your “dogfight” skills, and the difference between being a scientific athlete and an artist athlete. They talk power meters, HRV, TSB, CTL, Whoop, Oura, and why some devices are genuine training multipliers while others are just distractions that keep you from learning tactics, skills, and race craft.
They wrap with a simple test for any new gadget:
Does this help me train better, or give my coach better information to make me faster?
If the answer is no, you probably don’t need it.
Stay tuned as well for our upcoming two-part interview with Jim Weinstein, who is about to hike the full 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. If you want to see what “all-in” really looks like, you’ll want to catch that.
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