Originally Posted by
carleton
Everybody is different.
You have to experiment and take good notes to see what works for you. There are many factors. Too many to sum up with a sentence like, your gear for X event will always be bigger than your gear for Y event.
Step 1: Ride and record data.
Step 2: Interpret the data.
Step 3: Tweak something
Step 4: Repeat.
This is essentially what a coach does for an athlete (s)he is both Recorder and Interpreter.
With modern tech, we can have a computer record and then serve as our own interpreter.
it is totally personal! As well as daunting. Which is why I have a (really good) coach, and why I couldn’t agree more on having one. Seriously, if you’re going to go into this sport all in, if you want and plan to succeed, you need help. Help is spelled “C O A C H”