Firstly, I have not forgotten nor have I lost interest in making content again. In truth I am as excited about that as I am my training and my commitment to future training.
I just don’t have the technical expertise to do it so am trying to acquire that. As I said previously I want to learn how to edit video this year and am working on that…I essentially want to do it with what I have…that being my iMac, my Samsung S24 Ultra mobile, my Insta360 and if I can find it…my GoPro. Basically I have all the hardware I really ‘need’ I just need to learn how to use it…and I am working on that.
I haven’t formally coached anyone for a decade or more (how time flies) and yet I don’t think a day goes by that someone doesn’t talk to me about training and or ask me questions and or look for my opinion on training. If anything I enjoy those discussions more now that I don’t have to rely on it for my livelihood. As always, I have a lot to say and feel perfectly fine about saying it because my body of work while coaching and the practices and principles I put into work still stand up today and if anything looking back at it…it is still miles ahead of most of the garbage you see today…results speak for themselves and my results were not just seen in high performing individuals but across the board. So yes, I can’t wait to start making content so I can talk about how amazing I think I am.
Secondly, my training is going very well and my progression I think will be interesting to others. I want to discuss and analyse it as I essentially took a 10 year break from training and then have started training again like a professional athlete in a old, beaten up and out of shape body…still haven’t missed a day of training since November 24th (not that I think rest days are bad…it is just a mental thing for me…an expression of my commitment to myself and my disciple). During that time…my peak power has gone from 800W to 1300W and my FTP has gone from 199W to 270W. I have hung on to my lean muscle mass and have decreased my weight by 10kgs and my bodyfat by 6%. I have a short term plan in place and a long term plan and am executing both as per my grand plan and am very happy with that. So I want to talk about that as well because I think people will find it interesting and I think it will prompt a lot of questions.
Thirdly, I have decided I am going to start gravel racing. I am doing this from a standing start as well and I think people might find this interesting as well. I don’t have a clue what I am doing and I don’t even have a bike. I am going to find some races and I am going to enter them and start the timer that way…so I have to prepare physically, mentally, technically and logistically and I want to talk about that as well because I think that will be interesting.
Anyway, this is just an update to let anyone (the four of you) that reads it that I am more invested in this than I have been for a long long while so if you have any opinions, thoughts, ideas or questions I am all ears. I am prioritising getting something up on my YouTube page if only so people can laugh and shit on it to inspire me to improve it.
Will Heffernan 
looking forward to seeing the bike , why gravel racing ?
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Just hate riding on the road.
Just don’t see it as a good risk/reward ratio…too much risk.
I have access to great forest riding…fire trails and forest roads.
I mountain bike ride but just don’t do technical single trail stuff. So gravel riding makes sense as a competitive outlet.
Make sense?
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Great to hear mate. FTP gains are impressive! I supported a couple of mates who raced 250 Dirty Warrny https://dirtywarrny.com.au/ last year. They love the gravel for the same reasons you mention. A lot of their specific training happened on Zwift. Endurance often from weekly long rides on road or gravel. Nutrition became a crucial part of the plan for longer distances. Their bikes were amazing – https://www.cervelo.com/en-AU/bikes/aspero and https://www.giant-bicycles.com/au/tcx-advanced-pro-0
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I am going to get something decent but at my size and weight (I think in shape I am still going to a human windsock at 186cm and 100kgs) I don’t need to be spending $10K to save a kg or so on bike and componentry weight when I can spend $5K and get something super decent…I mean…I could spend half that again and for $2.5K I could get something that does everything I need but I want something that makes my dick hard and $5K bike will do that and everything else I want.
You and I will discuss this further before any purchase is made. More research to do because getting something dialled in ‘bike fit’ wise will take a while and I am going to need to throw my leg over some first.
My February plan is on track…down from 120kg to 117kg today and as I said…I want to get to 115kg and hold it a bit before pushing on down to 110kg and holding there.
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