What does it take to get ready for Gravel Worlds? Mark O’Brien takes Matilda Reynolds inside his preparation: long climbing days, repeated efforts, technical descents and the challenge of fuelling when the course barely gives you a break. They compare indoor training with riding outdoors, discuss the value of changing your training stimulus, and debate what AI can offer a training plan—and where a human coach still matters.

Plus, their take on the Vuelta, racing in the heat, professional cycling’s reliance on sponsors and why cycling’s coaches receive so little public scrutiny.

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