I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.

So there was where Simon attacked with Matt and I basically rode on half a bar and pushed like 50 watts more than every other guy

and I said now is the time I have to now I'm forced to stop yeah and I inflated the tire

plugged it inflated again and then I was all alone and I just saw the group in a helicopter

in front of me and I was like no way it's going to be a long 20k to the finish

okay folks uh I'm jumping in here to do an intro like we typically do for the podcast because we

realized uh when we're just shooting from the hip during these post-race episodes,

it can be kind of hard to do the housekeeping we need to in terms of results.

And shout out to training peaks and that sort of thing.

So I just wanted to do that very quickly before we dive into what was a really awesome conversation with the speed company guys.

So quickly here, first things first.

Thank you to Traini Peaks for making these recap episodes possible.

And we've had some questions about what CTL is, what TSS is, these things that we've been throwing out in the last episodes.

And I realized that, well, one person in particular wrote us a note and said, I have training peaks, but I don't quite necessarily understand what CTL is.

What's a good CTL? What should my CTL be?

All that sort of thing. CtL means chronic training load. And that basically is a number that gives

you an idea of your fitness level. And if you go into your performance management chart on

training peaks, there's sort of three lines to the main

graph and they all kind of interact. You have acute training load, which is your recent hard

training or not. It can be a low number, can be a high number. Right now with this stage

race, my acute training load is going up very much

every day and as a result my CTL is going up um every day as well which means i'm getting stronger or at least

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