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2026-07-09 / Last updated : 2026-07-09 tirons Training

While you were asleep, I was training

During the 2000 (I believe) Tour de France Santiago Botero, a rider on Kelme, kept a diary. He was a great champion in his own right. I recall reading this entry back in 2000. I’m not positive if Santiago wrote this in English or if it was a translation. It’s worth a read, even now. […]

2025-05-12 / Last updated : 2025-05-13 tirons Training

Beyond FTP

Many riders will have heard with the term ‘FTP’, it’s practically ubiquitous in the cycling world. Where does this term come from and what does it mean? For many riders FTP has become the singular metric they use to define how fit they are. However, a rider’s FTP tells an incomplete picture of a rider’s […]