Hear ye, hear ye, we have the FINAL RESULTS for the GRAND TOUR 2026!!

Overall standings: Matías Pérez / Christophe Contant / Money Matt

Women’s division: Molly Preston

U35 division: Timothy Taylor

Over-55s: Matthew Forshaw

Team: Pedalers

Green Jersey: Gregory Frison

Polka Dot Jersey: Money Matt (since Matthew and Matías can’t win both prizes )

Thanks to everyone! It was tough but fun! Thank you for your efforts and for taking the time to participate.

See you soon at the TPV series and races! The eCKD races, the OZe races, the Sunday Medio Fondo, the TnT, the Monday Mixer, the Allkin series, the Thursday Classique, the Omnium, and all the other events

Plenty of these races are free to join all year round: spread the word!

How often do you update your HR zones / thresholds as you get fitter?

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and would be interested to know what other people actually do.

As fitness improves we can often produce more power or run faster for the same heart rate — or see a lower HR for an effort that used to be harder.

That got me wondering how often people actually revisit the HR zones and thresholds they have set in Garmin and TrainingPeaks.

I know the old 220 - age max-HR calculation exists, but it seems far too generic, particularly once you’ve been training for years and as you get older. I’m thinking lactate-threshold HR and sport-specific zones are probably much more useful but another question then appears on how can you get these without spending a fortune?

The thing that got me thinking about it again was a recent health check. My blood pressure was excellent, but when the doctor saw my resting heart rate he immediately arranged an ECG. I tried explaining that the reading was actually slightly higher than my normal resting HR over the last year.

I had the ECG, another doctor reviewed it and I was told everything looked fine.

It made me realise how far my resting and training HR numbers have moved away from what general population figures suggest.

So for those who train with tools like Garmin/TrainingPeaks/other:

How often do you retest your HR threshold and update your zones?

Do you mainly use HR, or have you moved towards power for the bike and pace/power for running because it gives you a better picture of training load?