There’s a premium Strava feature called Fitness & Freshness that I am a little addicted to. I love seeing the chart shoot up after a hard workout, and I fret when I see it coming back down again. But when you think about it, this makes no sense at all. Everyone knows, you don’t get stronger or fitter in training but in recovery. Infact you could even say that the entire purpose of training is to trigger the body going into a recovery mode where it overcompensates and that’s how gains occur. But F&F shows the uptick immediately on completing the session, and then it starts to go down the next day, but after a hard session it’s on the next day and the day after that the benefits start to materialise, biologically.

Secondly according to F&F right now I am the fittest I have ever been since starting to use Strava and honestly… I’m just not.