The journal
Where the watts
are hiding.
Twenty years of riding, a decade inside Team Sky and British Cycling, and a lot of hours in a spare room with a fan pointed at my face. Long-form writing on marginal gains, the head, and training that has to fit around a job. Everything here is something I have actually tested.
Three attempts at Sa Calobra. Two failures. Seven seconds.
The first one ended at six kilometres with my seatpost pointing somewhere it had no business pointing. The second was 30:47 and it sat on me for days. The third was 29:53, and none of the difference came from being fitter.
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I haven't cleaned a chain in 10 years.
Not once. In that time I've ridden 360 kilometres through British rain, taken a course record and gone under thirty minutes on Sa Calobra. The friction data, the wear data, what it actually costs, and the honest reasons you might still tell me to get lost.
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The calculator was wrong about me by 225 calories a day.
A day of proper measurement turned up an 11 per cent error in my fuelling, a shoulder I'd have sworn blind was level, and a knee problem that wasn't anything to do with my knee.
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Only ten minutes of it actually hurt.
A seventy five minute threshold session has about ten uncomfortable minutes in it, and maybe three that genuinely hurt. We quit because we pick up all seventy five at once and they're heavy.
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524 hours indoors.
The least romantic training I've ever done and probably the most useful, because when you've got a job and a life, the indoor hour is the one you can actually defend. Here's the system that makes it count.
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A decade defending the inner tube, and why I went tubeless anyway.
For ten years I told anyone who'd stand still long enough that a good clincher and a latex tube beat tubeless on any road worth riding. I was right. I'm now running tubeless. Both of those can be true at once.
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The doors open soon
Everything in this journal is the thinking Forma is built on: find the gains, quantify them honestly, and stack the ones that survive contact with the evidence. The app does it for one rider, every day, around the life they actually live. One hundred founding places, then the doors close.