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020 Cycling Metrics, Decoded

In this episode, Coral breaks down the five numbers cyclists actually lean on — power, heart rate, cadence, speed, and RPE — and where each one holds up versus where it quietly falls apart. She unpacks why heart rate is a "lagging measure" that needs company to mean anything, why cadence is a technique metric and not a pacing one, and why speed might be the least trustworthy number on your bike computer — more a read on the road and the wind than on you. Plus: how the right metric shifts depending on your experience level, your race distance, and the terrain in front of you, and why the goal…

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