Wandrer is kinda the opposite of Local Legends as tells you what new miles/KMs you’ve done on a particular run or ride and even gives you stats like ‘You’ve now completed 23% of Surrey”. I do, however, take an occasional peek at the Local Legend anthesis that is Wandrer. I’ve popped up quite a few times as a local legend of some segment or other than I could have sworn I only did about 5 times that month. Anyone can achieve such a feat with a bit of hard work. Maybe that was why they introduced Local Legends to recognise that you did the same segment again and again and again and again, more than anyone else that month. I think Strava realised that segment dilemma as well. I don’t know about you, but I start to find that less interesting each year. Maybe you simply check that you are doing more miles or minutes than your buddies? Fine, but that’s fairly basic stuff. So neither of us really care about who is the ‘best’. I can go somewhere new but even then I don’t get a PB/PR as I’ve never been there before.Īlternatively, I can see if I beat my mates on my favourite Strava segments which, invariably, are not their favourite segments. I’ve now got to the point where I’ve even done my more obscure rides and runs LOTS of times and I can quite easily go a whole week without Strava even telling me I’ve got my 3rd best performance on some random segment that I never previously had any interest in. If that gets too hard to achieve then there are always age-graded performances to rely on which, in the case of parkrun, are measures of meaningful progressionthat take into account your ageing limbs! Image|STRAVA Strava Segmentsīack in the day, I often got a PR on a favourably windy day, somewhere on my route several times a week. Only then might you start to look at year’s-bests or season’s-bests as a measure of progression and motivation.

You might start to wait months or years for another to come around and then it’s only because you are working towards a specific day as if it were your A race of the year! Maybe you look to get a parkrun 5K PB? Trust me, once you’ve got 15, or so, PBs on one course it starts to get really hard to get some more. Week 27 is clearly a hard week of training for most of us but how do you motivate yourself along the journey towards it? So if you were following a Fink plan for IM Bolton this year, then your training at week 1 and at week 27 would look something like the two weeks in these images, yet your weekly progression adds no more than 30 minutes each time and it might take you until week 12 or week 20 to really start to feel tired. Although, you are trusting that your coach/plan is making you better, perhaps without getting regular PBs/PRs simply because you might be so tired all the time from lots of training. A good plan will progressively stretch you and before you know it you will have almost miraculously & significantly improved.

When you follow a plan then simply completing each daily workout might be enough for you. Another Kind of PB/PR – Golden Cheetah CP Curve.

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