Yesterday I had my initial consultation with my coach. I like him. I’ve known him a little bit as we’ve been doing our Wednesday night sprints at Franklin Field together. He has really pushed me to get faster this fall.  His background is in track and field where he ran at Michigan but after so many stress fractures he predominately races bikes now.

We basically went over race goals,

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I finally made the switch. My Polar 625x was just giving me too many problems. It was inevitable however.

When it came to higher intensity workouts, the polar  foot-pod just wasn’t accurate. The main problem with Polar’s inertia based technology is  it calibrates based on  pace which you originally calibrate it.

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I might have mentioned in the past (or maybe I didn’t) about getting “hotspots” in my cycling shoes. This thought this was due to the fact that I put a lot of pressure on my outside of my shoes.

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