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How Illness Sparked A Bestselling Book
- Joe Friel caught a virus in his heart after a trip to Australia and had to stop training for months.
- He used the extra time to write the Cyclist Training Bible, which unexpectedly became a bestseller.
Coaching With Fax Machines And Paper Logs
- In the 1980s–90s Joe coached remotely by mailing and faxing weekly calendars and received stacks of faxed logs each Monday.
- Managing 70+ clients this way was tedious and time-consuming until email and later tools eased the process.
Tech Transformed How We Train
- Early adoption of technologies like power meters reshaped how training intensity and progress are measured.
- TrainingPeaks then built analytics that bridged wearable data to actionable coaching decisions.