Getting Started – The story behind the book

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โ€˜Getting Startedโ€™ is my third book. Itโ€™s the book I most enjoyed writing.

After โ€˜The Basicsโ€™ and โ€˜Why would you?โ€™ I thought I was done.

But then I started to explore wrist-based power and realised that runners who wanted to try Running with Power using the power meter built into their running watch had little or no guidance about how to do that.

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I was aiming to meet the following goals:
โœ… No assumption of a particular power meter
โœ… Lots of advice on making the right equipment and app choices
โœ… Just enough conceptual content to provide a solid foundation
โœ… A learning by doing approach to support the concepts and to start using power
โœ… Minimal overlap with the existing books

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With the above goals, a three-part structure seemed to be the best approach:

  1. Equipment & Apps. Information about options, and how to combine those to end up with something that worked.
  2. Fundamental Concepts. The key concepts underlying Running with Power, to provide a solid foundation for future learning and fine-tuning. This part would include activities that runners could use to try out the use of power.
  3. Setups & Configs. Because Running with Power is still relatively new, things donโ€™t always work as smoothly as they ought to. This part would provide detailed setup and configuration information to make it easier to arrive at a working setup.

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With the goal and structure in place, I realised I was going to need help โ€ฆ

๐‘บ๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’๐’…๐’’๐’• ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐‘น๐’–๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ท๐’๐’˜๐’†๐’“?

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๐Ÿ“– Getting Started

The story behind the book

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