Q&A #27 - Cramping (with expert guest Andy Blow), what CTL is required to get to Kona and a little rant...

Q&A #27 - Cramping (with expert guest Andy Blow), what CTL is required to get to Kona and a little rant...  

• How do you solve cramping issues when you've tried everything, with expert guest Andy Blow
• Is there any particular Chronic Training Load (CTL) number you should shoot for if you want to qualify for Kona? 
• A rant about over-reliance on arbitrary metrics like TSS and how it causes athletes to forget the meaning of training: adaptations and performance

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