The Baie Sukkel Coach

Close the Gap! A breakthrough day for The BaieSukkel Coach, as we launch AutoMate, an application for Intervals.icu users. Get daily prompts via WhatsApp to help update your missing wellness and activity data. We have tools like merging dual recorded fit files, or stitching two activities together. No more manually having to download multiple files, upload to 3rd party apps, sort the data, save, download and upload back to Intervals, then deleted the originals. FitFileMerge does this seamlessly in one flow.

It's world bicycle day today. Will you be logging a ride today?

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving" Einstein.

Happy World Bicycle Day - 03/06/2025
Riding a bicycle shouldn’t be hard; the Baie Sukkel Coach can help make it easier for you.

Riding your bike should be fun; training should be simplistic. The Baie Sukkel Coach offers customised training plans and guidance, for time-constrained cyclists, to help you get faster/fitter, and have more fun on your rides.

This video from is quite good in explaining what training zones/ranges are all about. It’s a tool for your coach to ensure that you are training at the right level he/she has planned for you.

The simplest of them all is the 3-zone model, with correlation to HR, RPE and breathing, is about the best you can get without spending time in the lab. 5, 6 and 7 might be more specific the closer you get to your specific event.

https://youtu.be/BEYpXopPxKE?feature=shared

Monday

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

The Annual Training Plan is the tool used to layout a number processes to give a Birds Eye view of the cyclist’s “plan” for the year. It’s usually displayed in weekly totals, showing duration, training load for planned and actual. Testing, training focus areas, events and compliance to the plan can be viewed here. Each coach has their own way to plan for their athletes, some online and some in Excel (like the BaieSukkel Coach does).

Each person is unique, and so too is training and these plans.