Stop Watching Your Training Data

The numbers can help you improve on the bike, but so can ignoring them
Data. Metrics. Numbers. You, the modern cyclist, are bombarded with information – information about power, speed, training load, your place upon the Strava KOM leaderboard, your heart rate, sleep, recovery, weight, and the list goes on. Data can be a very good thing because it’s quantifiable, measurable and meaningful. It can show you the significance of your actions, your decisions and your training. But obsessing about data can be a disaster. Sometimes the best thing you can do is put your cycling computer in your back . . .