VeloWatt

🚩 8 weeks and 3 days to TYRAS Gravel.

We’ve talked plenty about how VeloWatt works. Now I’m showing it from the inside.

I started from almost zero. CTL was low for weeks. Fitness — minimal. The goal is clear: October 3, we’re on the start line in the best shape this window allows.

Prep — 100% following VeloWatt’s AI coach plan. The only data I feed it is my rides, my form, my life. Everything else is its call.

This week (Build 2 phase): 528 TSS. Threshold intervals, VO2max, tempo endurance, then one hard 120min gravel-specific. Not “pretty”. Real.

I’ll share every week until October 3. What works. What doesn’t. Where the plan had to rewrite itself.

If you’re racing gravel, chasing a goal, or just building form — you still have time. But not much.

Don’t wait. Start.

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💡 A small setting that changes what your AI coach sees.

In Settings, there's a location field. Most people skip it. Don't.

Here's what happens when you set it (or turn on auto-detect from your rides):

Your AI coach starts reading the 3-day weather forecast for your area — max and min temperature, precipitation, wind speed — and factors it into every recommendation.

Saturday shows 18mm of rain? The coach flags it and suggests indoor trainer. Wind above 40 km/h on your long ride day? It recommends a sheltered route. Heat wave hitting Thursday? It knows your Wednesday interval session might be a smarter call.

Without your location, none of this exists. The coach plans in a vacuum — optimizing for TSS and CTL, blind to the fact that you're about to ride into 34°C at 3 PM.

Two minutes to set it. Weeks of smarter training in return.

🔧 Settings → Location → set your city or enable auto-detect.

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💡 A summer Pro tip from today’s ride.

Today, 7:15 AM. Legs already on the pedals. Not because I’m a ma*****st — because the math is simple:

→ When outside temp goes above 25°C, your core temp rises fast. Your heart works harder to cool you down — not to move you forward.
→ Your threshold power drops 5–15% in heat. “Easy Z2 endurance” at 30°C can quietly become a tempo effort.
→ Adaptation needs recovery, not suffering. Heat + humidity stress doesn’t add fitness — it adds risk.

So here’s what actually works:

1️⃣ Ride between 6:00–8:30 AM — 24°C vs 30°C is basically a different sport for your body.
2️⃣ If you can’t — drop intensity 5–10%. Not because you’re weak. Because the heat is already doing the physiological work for you.
3️⃣ On longer rides — 500ml + electrolytes every 60 min. Not water. Electrolytes.

Me today: 1h base Z2 this morning. Coding tonight. Tomorrow — easier.

Summer form is built early in the morning.

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🚩 VeloWatt × TYRAS Gravel

Didelis džiaugsmas pranešti — kolaboruojam su TYRAS Gravel, kuris vyks spalio 3 d. Molėtuose. 🚴‍♂️

Visi TYRAS Gravel dalyviai gauna 1 mėnesį VeloWatt Pro nemokamai. Pilnas AI treneris, savaitinis planas, PMC prognozės, oro adaptacija — viskas atrakinta, kad galėtum pasiruošti varžybai su duomenimis, ne spėjimais.

🏷️ Nuolaidos kodas: TYRAS26

Kaip pasinaudoti:
1️⃣ Užeik į velowatt.app ir prisijunk
2️⃣ Pasirink mėnesio mokėjimo planą
3️⃣ Įvešk kodą TYRAS26 ir patvirtink

ℹ️ Kortelės duomenys reikalingi autorizavimui — pinigai nepaimami. Prenumeratą gali atšaukti bet kada, o narystė lieka aktyvi iki periodo pabaigos.

Matysimes Molėtuose spalio 3 d. 🍂

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🧠 VeloWatt AI Coach just got smarter.
Upgraded our AI engine to Claude Sonnet 4.5 — Anthropic's most capable model. What this means for your training:
⚡ More precise workout prescriptions
📊 Better ride analysis and pattern recognition
🎯 Smarter plan adjustments when life changes your schedule
Same price. Better coaching.
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Why I built VeloWatt, in one story.

Two years ago I was using TrainingPeaks. Paid subscription, real training plan, serious about racing.

Then Monday happened. Work deadline, kid got sick, rain. I skipped the interval session.

I opened TrainingPeaks on Tuesday. The plan was still there. Untouched. 4x8min threshold waiting for me like nothing happened. As if Monday didn’t exist.

So now what? Do I push Monday’s workout to Tuesday and ruin Wednesday’s recovery? Do I skip it entirely and lose the training stimulus? Do I manually rebuild the whole week? I’m not a coach. I don’t know the right answer. That’s why I was paying for a platform.

That moment — staring at a plan that didn’t care I was human — was the moment VeloWatt started.

Here’s how it works now:

Skip 1 or 2 days — VeloWatt redistributes the training load mathematically. No AI call needed. The math is based on TSS targets from Coggan’s methodology, balanced against Seiler’s intensity distribution research. It just works.

Skip 3+ days — the plan regenerates fully. The AI re-reads your fitness, your A-race date, your remaining time, and rebuilds the path forward. Friel’s periodization as the skeleton, Mujika’s tapering research for the peaking phase.

No manual rebuilding. No guilt about broken plans. No staring at a workout from yesterday that doesn’t apply to today anymore.

Life happens. Your plan should know that.

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Kodėl sukūriau VeloWatt — viena istorija.

Prieš dvejus metus naudojausi TrainingPeaks. Mokėjau už prenumeratą, rimtas treniruočių planas, ruošiausi varžyboms.

Tada atėjo pirmadienis. Darbo deadline’as, vaikas susirgo, lyja. Praleidau intervalų treniruotę.

Antradienį atidariau TrainingPeaks. Planas stovėjo toks pat. Nepaliestas. 4x8min threshold laukė manęs, tarsi pirmadienio nebuvo.

Ir ką dabar? Perkelti pirmadienio treniruotę į antradienį ir sugažinti trečiadienio atsigavimą? Visai ją praleisti ir prarasti stimulą? Perplanuoti visą savaitę rankomis? Aš nesu treneris. Neišmanau teisingo atsakymo. Užtat ir mokėjau už platformą.

Ta akimirka — žiūrint į planą, kuriam nesvarbu, kad esu žmogus — gimė VeloWatt.

Kaip dabar veikia:

Praleidai 1 ar 2 dienas — VeloWatt matematiškai perskirsto krūvį per savaitę. AI net nereikia. Matematika remiasi Coggan metodologijos TSS pagrindais, subalansuota pagal Seiler intensyvumo pasiskirstymo tyrimus. Tiesiog suveikia.

Praleidai 3+ dienas — planas pilnai atsinaujina. AI iš naujo perskaito tavo formą, A-race datą, likusį laiką, ir perstato kelią į priekį. Friel periodizacija kaip karkasas, Mujika tyrimai dėl taper’io prieš varžybas.

Jokio perplanavimo rankomis. Jokios kaltės dėl sulaužyto plano. Jokių treniruočių žiūrėjimo, kurios šiandien jau nebetinka.

Gyvenimas nutinka. Tavo planas tai turi žinoti.

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