About

The person behind the reviews.

Most people who write about recovery wearables have never needed them. I have.

The cycling chapter

I came to competitive cycling late — returning to the sport after a two-decade gap from collegiate road racing. Within a few seasons of track racing, I had collected four US National Championship titles and two UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championship gold medals in team sprint. What got me there wasn't natural talent. It was obsessive attention to recovery, training load, and the data between workouts.

Track sprinting rewards people who can reproduce maximum effort repeatedly. You learn quickly that the limiting factor is never the workout — it's whether you recovered from the last one. HRV monitoring, sleep discipline, and structured rest weren't optional extras for me. They were the difference between a personal best and a false start.

The cancer chapter

Then came cancer.

Treatment doesn't care about your training schedule. The tools I had used to optimize performance became tools for survival — tracking readiness when readiness meant something entirely different, monitoring sleep when chemotherapy made real sleep hard to find, and learning to distinguish between the fatigue that means rest harder and the fatigue that means something is wrong.

That experience changed what I think recovery technology is actually for. It's not a competitive edge. It's a way of listening to your body when the signals are hard to read.

The running chapter

I'm now learning to run. Not as a metaphor — literally learning distance running, starting close to zero, with the physiology of a former track sprinter and the patience of someone who has had to rebuild before.

That transition is where fastkadence lives. The reviews, the HRV guides, the gear comparisons — they're written from the perspective of someone who has used this equipment at the extremes: elite competition, illness, and the long road back.

Why this site

Most endurance gear content is written by people who received the product last week and need to publish before the next one arrives. fastkadence publishes slowly and covers fewer things. Every product recommendation is something I have used, evaluated against my own data, or scrutinized closely enough to have an opinion worth sharing.

If you want to know whether a recovery tracker earns its place in a serious training stack — or what the data looks like when the training isn't the hard part — you're in the right place.