Cyclist Magazine

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‘Understand. Don’t memorise. Learn Principles, not formulas.’ Professor Richard Feynman. We are a society in love with data. For any modern cyclist – even midlife ones – concepts such as FTP, watts, watts per kilo, weight, BPM, metres climbed, Strava segments and how long it has taken us to traverse them today instead of yesterday have become part of our everyday thinking about riding a bike. Every pedal stroke and ride is metricated, recorded and presented like a PowerPoint for eventual cross-analysis.

In stark contrast, data was

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