Another 15 hours this week — 100km on the road and 170km on Zwift — and for the first time in a while the legs felt like they were actually cooperating. The thing about training momentum is you don't notice it arriving. You just realise that the same heart rate is covering more ground, that the climbs on Zwift aren't requiring the same negotiation with yourself, and that the sessions are flowing into each other rather than stacking up as separate ordeals. The body has decided, for now, to play along. Yay!
I have been pretty consistent with my diet — some say that champions are made in the kitchen. Rice, broccoli, chicken, greek-style yogurt, oats. Not because I am being precious about it, but because it works. The week had no energy dips. No mid-afternoon wall, no desperate coffee before a session. I felt sharp and awake in a way that is hard to argue with. Boring food, interesting results. Also the combination and matching of the right macro ratio to the intensity of the day has been quite helpful. Dr Bubbs taught me well, back in the day.
We have a gas stove in the house, which sounds like a minor thing, mostly because the cooking usually transits via the air fryer. However, I could pull out the Neapolitan moka pot for the first time in a while, and that first cup was a genuine treat. Alessia appreciated the genuine coffee smell. I have also been running the Ninja Creami with whey and oat milk to make a basic gelato — a small pleasure that sits comfortably inside the discipline. There you have, a good affogato.
I am going to start moving more of the AI and business writing over to X (f_dicostanzo) and to fdicostanzo.com. This space will be more focused on training. There is quite a bit cooking in that direction and I would rather keep the two threads clean instead of letting them blur into something that serves neither.
I have been reading The Philosopher in the Valley by Michael Steinberger, which traces Alex Karp's path from a doctorate in social theory and no formal computer science training to co-founding and running Palantir, now a company valued somewhere in the region of $400 billion. I am still at the very beginning, but the early chapters on Karp's unconventional background and the founding days of Palantir are already worth the time. There is something compelling about someone who arrived in Silicon Valley from such an unlikely angle and ended up building one of its most consequential companies.
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