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The Word My Watch Uses When I Get the Sleep Wrong

by Arnold | Aug 1, 2026 | Sleep, Training

Sleep after hard training isn’t one-size-fits-all. A four-hour ride in zone one or two barely registers as a load worth protecting sleep for — a night a little shorter than usual absorbs it without complaint. Twelve repeats of 800 meters above threshold, close...

My Legs Could Always Rest Between Sports. My Mind Never Got a Turn.

by Arnold | Jul 29, 2026 | Sleep, Health, Training

A nervous system rest day looks nothing like an ordinary rest day, and for most of the last two decades as an amateur endurance athlete, I didn’t know there was a difference to look for. Even after I became a cycling trainer myself, I still thought of training...

The Thousand-Year-Old Cooling Trick I’d Already Rebuilt Without Knowing It

by Arnold | Jul 26, 2026 | Health, Sleep

Cross ventilation for sleeping sounds technical. It’s really just two open gaps, one high and one low. On a hot night in the van, I don’t seal it up the way instinct says to for bugs or security. I crack the roof vents — mosquito-netted, so bugs stay out —...

The Noise Outside My Camper That Wasn’t a Bear

by Arnold | Jul 23, 2026 | Sleep, Health

Trouble sleeping in a new place isn’t really about the place. I’d found an empty parking spot in a limestone canyon in Slovakia, right next to the stream that carves it — a short drive, an easy training day, nothing that should have cost me any sleep. Then...

Everything Bends Except the Clock

by Arnold | Jul 20, 2026 | Health, Sleep

Every plan for a solo trip is provisional except one: a consistent wake up time, and the bedtime that goes with it. I check the forecast the night before I leave, aim for somewhere within about a thousand kilometers where the temperature sits near twenty degrees, and...