Summer holidays are coming to a close in the northern hemisphere and we’re returning to work. It takes time to refocus and build momentum. It’s completely understandable to feel challenged by all the pressures of maintaining a job, business, family, plus staying fit and eating well. Technology can’t magic the pressure away, but it can help you stay on top of things, save you time and even serve as support to build positive habits. The Suunto 7 smartwatch is powered with Wear OS by Google, providing a buffet of apps designed to help you manage everyday life. We consulted our inhouse technology geeks about which apps they find the most helpful and they came up with nine.     Spotify Spotify's Wear OS app enables you to listen to music on your Suunto 7 without your phone – and even when offline. Connect your Bluetooth headphones with your watch and download the tracks that you want to take with you! Learn more about listening to music on the go with a Suunto 7 and Spotify here. And once you have it, check out Suunto’s workout playlists on Spotify. Wrist Camera Say goodbye to awkward selfies that strain your neck as you try to get you and your two friends all in the frame. This app lets you control and preview your phone camera remotely from your smartwatch. This simple app is easy to use. Find it in Google Play here. Todoist Stay on top of all the tasks you need to complete with the Todoist app. You can add, check, and complete tasks with your watch. You can also track your progress on meeting daily and weekly goals. Find it in Google Play here. Google Keep This handy note-taking service allows you to capture ideas, notes or tasks whenever they pop into your mind. You can dictate your thoughts and Keep will transcribe them. You can create reminders and tasks, and share them with others. Click here to get it. Bring! No more shopping lists on the back of crumpled receipts! Your shopping just got easier with this app which allows you to create and share shopping lists with your family or friends from multiple devices, including by simply speaking into your smartwatch! Get it here. Wear Casts This app allows you to listen to your favorite podcasts offline. When you head out for a run, you can tune in without having to take your phone with you. Get it here. If you prefer audiobooks over podcasts, check out NavBooks. This app places your library on your wrist – also for offline listening. Find my phone This handy feature is part of the Wear OS system and means you won’t ever again lose your phone down the back of the couch and think your life is over. Unless you can’t find your watch, too, in which case you are entitled to panic! All you need to do is tap a button on your watch face to make your phone ring. Breathe. Google Assistant Wouldn’t be nice if we could all have a personal assistant? Well, Google Assistant more than suffices. Schedule events and reminders in your calendar, create shopping lists, check the weather – all by simply speaking to your watch. Citymapper Get live subway, bus and train times, and find the best route to get where you need to go with step-by-step instructions – all via your watch. Get it here. Healthy Recipes Never ever get cookie dough on your phone again! This handy app allows you to follow recipes from your watch face, with the phone safely placed away from the chaos.   Suunto 7 support: Here you'll find user guides, how to videos and more   Read more articles Welcome to the season of the FKT Start your path to mountain navigation mastery here The benefits of training to music and making your best playlist

Winner of the 2019 Ultra Trail Mont Blanc (UTMB) and Suunto ambassador Pau Capell has had an usually quiet year. COVID-19 rocked Spain, Europe and the world, forcing race organizers to cancel events everywhere. During the lockdown, training indoors was the only way the 29-year-old Spaniard could maintain his condition. Trail runners, possessing an irresistible urge to explore and push themselves, can only put up with that for so long. On the morning of August 27, he will be attempting a FKT (fastest known time) record on the 170 km Tour du Mont Blanc, the route of the famous UTMB. Pau already holds the FKT record for the trail due to his incredible performance at the UTMB 2019: 20h19m. His goal this time is to finish in less than 20 hours. “It will only be me running, with no pacers,” he says. “It’s going to be difficult, but I will try.” “I enjoy these kinds of personal running projects a lot because it’s not a race,” Pau continues. “At a race we have a lot of pressure. Media is there, sponsors, other athletes and fans. There won’t be any of that this time. In an FKT attempt it’s just you and your own team. The main excuse is just to run.”   Follow Pau's Tour du Mont Blanc FKT attempt on August 27 via Suunto on Instagram. Pau (above) is going to have to push hard to beat his own UTMB FKT. © Roger Salanova   The FKT boom With COVID-19 spoiling everyone’s race plans, FKTs attempts like Pau’s are now enjoying center stage. An article published online by US magazine Trail Runner, titled Summer of Speed: New FKTs are Falling at Record Pace, revealed a staggering figure: in July 2019 there were 151 verified FKTs added to the global website that tracks FKTs, www.fastesknowntime.com, and in July 2020 that number had more than tripled to 566. August, the article reports, is on track to break the 600 mark for the first time ever. Kilian Jornet, however, says that FKTs aren’t really anything new. A historian of mountaineering and trail running, he points to Frédérik Morshead taking his time to climb Mont Blanc way back in 1864 and John Muir climbing Mt Shasta in 1874. “People have been trying to beat times like those and to climb or traverse their local mountain or trail as fast as they can ever since,” he says. “I think the branding around FKTs has grown, and the knowledge about how to promote them with social media, but FKTs existed before any race. Maybe it’s just that today they get more attention.”   Table Mountain above Cape Town is Ryan Sandes' local training ground. © Craig Kolesky/Red Bull Content Pool   On everyone’s minds Like Pau, other Suunto trail runners are also turning their attention to FKTs. Ryan Sandes just set a new FKT on the 101.2 km 13 Peaks Challenge in Cape Town, South Africa. The challenge, which Ryan designed, involves 6203 m of ascent. Ryan finished it in 13h41m. Next he’s preparing for an FKT attempt on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast. Earlier in August, Courtney Dauwalter ran more than 360 km, with 9000 m of ascent, during an FKT attempt on the 805 km Colorado Trail. The challenge, however, took an unexpected turn. On the morning of August 10, just over halfway along the trail, she started wheezing and was taken to the Leadville hospital where she was diagnosed with acute bronchitis. Her FKT attempt was over. Is she giving up? No way. “It ended early, but it was a really awesome experience,” she says. “I can’t wait to try again!” In July, Kyle Curtin set a new FKT record on the 275 km Tahoe Rim Trail (1d17h9m). He’s not stopping there. He’s now turned his gaze to the 112 km Smokies Challenge Adventure Run course that follows the section of the Appalachian Trail in the Smoky Mountains. Next up after that he plans to have a crack at the 100 km Pitchell Challenge course. Kilian Jornet is also casually trying to set FKTs on mountains near his home in Romsdal, Norway. “Over the last few weeks I have been doing my best on summits like Romsdalshorn (1550 m), or linking all the 2000 m peaks in the Hurrungane range, and I’m sure more ideas will come up this summer.” Because of the COVID-19 impact, Emelie Forsberg cancelled her plan to attempt a new FTK record on the 900 km, 40,000 m, GR10; a hiking trail traversing the Pyrenees. Francois D’ haene has one in the back of his mind, but he’s keeping it a secret for now. Lucy Bartholomew is itching to get back out on the trails. The latest wave of COVID-19 infections and the subsequent lockdown in Australia delayed her attempt for a FKT on the 223 km Larapinta Trail.   Kyle Curtin grinding it out on the Tahoe Rim Trail.   What makes an FKT? Based on the criteria of the global body that validates and records FKT attempts – www.fastestknowntime.com – not all routes can qualify for a potential FKT record. The guidelines published on the website lay out what passes for a verifiable FKT trail, and what doesn’t. First up, FKTs must be done on foot only, not cycling, paddling and so forth. And these three criteria are important:   The route is notable and distinct enough so that others will be interested in repeating it. Routes may be of any distance or time duration (although anything less than 8 km long or with less than 150 m of climbing would have to be special). Routes may be on any surface - road, trail, off-trail.   That’s the official criteria for an FKT. Ryan Sandes has noticed the term being used in other ways, however. “I’ve been running ultras for 13 years now and FKTs have definitely grown in popularity,” he says. “This year, with no racing, there has been a massive boom. All sorts of mini challenges and things. I’ve noticed a lot more people setting their own personal FKTs. Maybe it’s someone trying to do the Table Mountain Crossing (37 km) as fast as they can. Maybe last year they did it in three hours and this year they want to break three hours. I think the term ‘FKT’ is getting used quite loosely now.” Or maybe another explanation is that the real FKT attempts are inspiring a generation of trail runners to customize their own adventure runs and set personal bests. For this reason, Kilian Jornet believes FKTs are good for sport. “They support the trail running community, because they are local,” he says. “Every village, region, has their trails and mountains and everyone can go and try to beat the FKT or just to see their personal best any day, any time, without the race restrictions and logistics. It’s simple and local so I believe that encourages people to run.”   In 2018 Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel set an FKT on the 1406 km Great Himalayan Trail. © Dean Leslie / Red Bull Content Pool   Open and customizable personal challenges The fact FKTs are open to anyone, any time, is what 33-year-old Kyle Curtin finds so inspiring about them. “Races can be prohibitive with their cost, what time of year they are, or because of a multitude of other reasons,” Kyle Curtin says. “With a FKT attempt you can literally control every factor. You can wait for a good weather day, and you can accommodate your work or life schedule. “For the Tahoe Rim Trail I picked dates with a full moon for running at night, and still pretty close to the solstice and also late enough the snow had melted out to give me clear running trails, but still plenty of drinking water. You can weigh in all the factors you want to decide when you want to start.” How to prepare for one Kilian Jornet has achieved FKTs all over the world. He says training and preparation of course depends on the trail; distance, vertical gain, surface, climate and so forth. But there are three general rules to follow: Study the route Buy and study topographical maps of the trail. Read trip reports about the trail and try to talk with the person who currently holds the record. He or she might have important insights to offer. Identify fueling, rest, water spots. Train there If possible, train on the route. Get familiar with it. When you attempt an FKT you don’t want to take a wrong turn; you should know exactly where you need to go. To avoid going off track, you can use your Suunto watch to navigate routes. Plan your route with Suunto app and transfer it to your watch with the next sync. Alternatively, you can also transfer GPX files to your Suunto and use those to navigate. Specificity If training on the route isn’t possible because you live too far away, find a trail or terrain that approximates the route as closely as possible – in terms of surface, elevation, climate etc – and train there. If it’s a fast flowing trail, find a fast flowing trail to train on. Vice versa if it’s a more technical trail.      Read more articles Finding the balance: Emelie Forsberg's 7 motherhood tips for running mums Start your path to mountian navigation mastery here The benefits of training to music and making your best playlist  

Becoming a mum and raising her now 15 month old daughter hasn’t stopped Emelie Forsberg from continuing as a full time athlete. She has been competing at the highest level in mountain running and ski mountaineering for a decade, including winning the Skyrunning World Series three times in a row. “I’m still a full time athlete, and that has grown into the role of being a mum as well,” she says. “It felt very natural, even though finding a balance has taken time.” Based in stunning Romsdal, Norway, she and her partner and fellow mountain athlete Kilian Jornet divide their time between raising their daughter, Maj, and training around the majestic fjords near their home. “At the moment we are enjoying a quiet, peaceful time at home where Maj, the weather and the ‘must-do’ list framing our days,” Emelie says. “I think it’s so fun to be a mum, to see her grow and explore, both nature, the surroundings, and the social world.” Emelie has learned some important lessons on what it takes to continue training hard, allowing plenty of time for recovery, and being an awesome mum. One lesson is perhaps the most important, she says: “You just need to listen to what your body and mind is telling you.” Don’t copy and paste your training Emelie says she made a few mistakes with her training after becoming a mum. The first one was trying to replicate the training she did to prepare for races prior to becoming pregnant. “I tried to apply myself to that even though I had a five month old baby, interrupted sleep for months, and some very big weeks and days,” she says. “That was not a good idea even though at the time it felt good. I had to pay for that for about two months where I could hardly train.” The upshot here is to acknowledge and accept your life has changed and that you will need more time and energy for your baby. Consider talking to a coach about how to create a balanced training schedule. Allow more time for recovery Raising a baby requires presence and energy. Without enough recovery time factored into your training, it’s easy to become sluggish and foggy, especially when managing the extra pressures of being a mum. “Because I want enough energy to be very present with Maj this has led to some changes in my training,” Emelie says. “In general, I feel that I need to reduce activities, to have energy for things that matters, like spending time with Maj, so less long training runs, less and less ‘recovery’ runs because they still take energy.” Plan your days Emelie says planning and structuring her days is crucial. Her and Kilian make weekly plans, looking at all the non-training things they must do, and then deciding what training will fit in with that. “We take turns training between 6am to 12pm or 12 to 6pm and while one of us is training the other one is responsible for Maj,” Emelie says. “Another common structure for our days is one of us does our outside training in the morning and then inside in the afternoon when Maj is taking a nap and vice versa.” Ensure quality family time Life can get hectic, especially for new parents managing a household and jobs. That’s why it’s important to stop everything and come together for some quality time every day. Every morning, for example, Emelie, Kilian and Maj have breakfast together and then they take their dog Maui out for a walk. They end the day in the same way. There are many other things they do together throughout the day of course, but this ritual helps to keep them in sync. Be creative with training Finding ways to incorporate your baby into your training is also a good idea, Emelie says. Maybe that’s heading out for a run with the baby in a stroller. Or maybe doing some yoga with your child. “Doing core training together is something Kilian and I do more often now because Maj thinks it’s fun that we are playing with her on the floor!” Emelie says. Reduce the things you need to do Before giving birth to Maj, Emelie was practicing yoga most days. Yoga gave her a lot and she is grateful for that. However, since having Maj she decided to ease off because she felt yoga would take more energy than it would return. “I think one important thing that I changed was the idea of things that I ‘need’ to do certain things to be satisfied with my day,” Emelie says. “I have a side of me that always feels like doing a lot of things, like working outside, or having projects inside, such as writing, or creating in other ways. Now I’ve realized that I don’t have the energy to do that. “I’m still working on finding a good balance in life at the moment.” Running will help be a mum “I realise now that to have a strong body and mind is also so important when you are a parent!” Emelie says. “To carry her around, to play on the ground, be on your feet almost the whole day – it’s hard work being home with an energetic one!” All images: © Kilian Jornet Read more articles Four pointers for running while pregnant Becoming a mum and staying in love with the mountains Calling all the sporty ladies! Emelie Forsberg smashes four records for women everywhere

Tokyo, Japan, a city of 37 million souls. A vast concrete jungle of bright lights, technological innovation, big business, a pedal to the metal speed of life, and one of the weirdest and wildest nightlife scenes on the planet. Enter our three Japanese DJs, whose job it is to navigate this labyrinth of hedonistic partying and yet remain balanced, fit and healthy. How do they do it?   Photo by Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash Elli Arakawa, SO and the CMYK crew all stay grounded by finding adventure in sport, as well as in everyday life. Adventure for each of them doesn’t have to be something that only happens in far flung places. It’s about staying open, curious, creative, and being yourself. “I think the whole of life is adventure,” says SO, the resident DJ of the famous festival The Labyrinth. “I’m not particularly conscious of it, but it often turns out to become an adventure as a result. Especially in the music business, for example in a new place you don't know, if you meet an organizer or promoter you don’t know, and when you get a result there, the next stage is waiting again, and if that continuity is strong it’s definitely adventure.” We talked to these DJs about music and movement and they put together three playlists for the Suunto Spotify channel. Each playlist is designed for a different time of day: morning, sunset and midnight. Read on for good times!   Play your own favorite tunes from your wrist With the Suunto 7 smartwatch you can connect your headphones to your phone and control music and other audio – adjust volume, pause and skip tracks – straight from your wrist without taking your phone out of your pocket. You can also listen to music without your phone: Spotify has just released an update to their Wear OS app that enables offline use. Simply connect your bluetooth headphones with your watch and download the tracks that you want to take with you! With this new feature, Spotify Premium users will be able to download their favorite albums, playlists, and podcasts to listen offline. Free users will be able to stream their tunes in Shuffle Mode using a WiFi or cellular connection, as well as download any of their favorite podcasts directly to the watch.   LEARN HOW TO USE SPOTIFY WITH YOUR SUUNTO 7     DJ SO football crazy Satoshi Aoyagi, aka SO, is always occupied with three things: design, music and football. Before the pandemic, he played at clubs around the world. Aside from playing electronic music, he also works as a designer. He’s a fan of Scandinavian design, including Suunto! SO is not the kind of guy to do things by half measures. When he starts something, he’s all in. That’s just how he ticks. Playing football is how he stays fit and healthy. “I think soccer gives me a sudden rush that I can never get at work or from music,” he says. “Music is gradual rather than instantaneous. But soccer is the only sudden rush. It's almost instinctual or animal-like. It’s irresistible and I can’t stop!” SO also works out to keep his body fit and strong for the game. “I’m careful about my diet and I take good care of my body for soccer. I go to the gym for strength training because I want to play a little better on the pitch.”         Elli Arakawa catches waves Elli Arakawa's extensive travels influence her music and the more adventurous the journeys the more inspired she is when selecting music. Through performing she learns so much about herself and her own creative spirit and what she is capable of as an artist. Regularly touring Asia and Europe before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and running her own party STRESS at Tokyo’s best venues, Elli is no stranger to the challenge of finding work-life balance. But she has found a way. Her secret? Music, eating well, surfing and yoga. Yoga, including meditation, is a key part of her daily wellness routine. It's vital for Elli to stay fit and healthy as DJ’s play all over the place, often from dusk to dawn. Surfing, and just being near the ocean, helps her relax and come back into balance. “I love using my body as it is the foundation of my strength as a creative person, playing music is my real power that feeds so much of my life and I’m very grateful for that!”     Read about the benefits of training to music and making your best playlist ever!   The CMYK crew’s kaleidoscope Consisting of five members, the CMYK crew is all about breaking walls between genres and instead celebrating the full spectrum of colour in music. The crew runs the CMYK party in Tokyo. Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the CMYK crew has been creating “audio postcards” every month and sending them out via social media to people in lockdown to cheer them up. Each one hour mixtape comes with a fantasy image that compliments the sound. “I'm creating a landscape that doesn't exist in the world and sending it out with the mixtape,” says Katsuto Tamagawa, one of the five CMYK crew members. “It’s like a simulated adventure to help people feel as if they had traveled somewhere, both visually and audibly.” The CMYK crew stays balanced with running and biking, with one member planning to ride across England after the pandemic has blown over. They are also big fans of Finnish saunas!     Lead images: © Photo by Heshan Perera on Unsplash © Photo by Alexandre .L on Unsplash   Read more articles Meet the Mambo Brothers, two health conscious DJs living the nightlife The benefits of training to music and making your best playlist ever Running books to read on your summer vacation  

Becoming confident at navigating with a map in the mountains doesn’t happen overnight. You can’t read a book and develop the skills. They need practice in the field, in a variety of terrain and conditions. Then the theory becomes grounded in experience. “Good navigation skills are a big booster for self-confidence,” says Suunto’s resident navigation pro, Terho Lahtinen. “When you know you’ll find your way back, it gives you the freedom to explore new surroundings without any fear of getting lost. That is pretty nice whenever you come to a new place.”   Photo by Jan-Niclas Aberle on Unsplash Expand your horizons This is the fifth and final article in our series on mountain navigation. In this one, we review the previous four articles, touch on the key takeaways from each of them, and bring them all together in one place so they are easy to review. It’s worth going through each of them a couple of times so it all sinks in. “Wayfinding and map reading are absolutely useful for anyone regardless of age,” Terho says. “It’s a great way to develop three-dimensional thinking, foster curiosity, and to encourage the spirit of exploration!” Learn the basics In the first article, Terho explains how to get started. Developing good location awareness and topographical map reading ability go hand in hand. Each supports the other. You really need to cement these skills before leading trips into big, unfamiliar mountain terrain. To become a confident wayfinder you need to fall in love with topo maps. Buy maps that illustrate outdoor recreation areas you know well and study them carefully. Investigate how land formations are depicted. Get a feeling for contour lines and how they communicate inclination. Take your map outdoors and compare what it tells you with the landscape you see around you. Doing this over time helps to develop location awareness. “Map reading skills are the number one thing to learn,” Terho says. “Maps tell us how the world around us looks. If you know how to read one and correlate the information with the terrain, you can get wherever you want.” Read how to find your way in the mountains.   Photo by Fabrizio Conti on Unsplash Planning a trip To plan a safe and challenging trip in the backcountry you need to have developed your map reading skills, location awareness and general outdoor experience. Otherwise your planning won’t be based on anything solid. Good planning is important to ensure your trip is a success. This is why in the second article Terho recommends people new to map reading first plan a trip somewhere familiar. This will allow you to relax and to compare what you have seen before with what you see on the map. It makes recognition easier. Once you have selected a destination, study the terrain features on the map. Look at potential start and end points, possible points of interest, handrails, the contour lines, and consider what is realistic for your group. Review this second article above for pacing information and factoring in break times.  Read 7 tips to plan a route in the mountains. Staying on track The planning is done, and now you have parked your car at the roadend and are heading out into the mountains. This third article is about how to stay on track when you’re out there. Two things are particularly important now. Firstly, keep a schedule outlining what landmark or terrain feature you will reach and when, and monitor your travel time. Secondly, use handrails and landmarks to guide you. Look at your map before you start each leg of your trip and try to memorize the upcoming terrain features. Read our 9 tips for staying on track in the mountains. Challenging conditions The best laid plans can go awry. And that’s partly what makes us love adventure, right? If it was always easy and straightforward it would also be boring. Adversity helps us to find our inner strength. This is why we have always been drawn to adventure. In this fourth article, we look at how to handle challenging conditions, specifically poor visibility. This is when following handrails, being flexible with your plan, and having supplementary technology, like a GPS device, makes all the difference. Read 9 rules to follow when your trip in the mountain goes pear shape. Practice makes perfect As with any skills, practice makes perfect. “Reaching a master level is often a process of years,” Terho says. “But if you study maps regularly at home and every now and then spend a few hours practicing in the outdoors, you will make good progress in months. It’s something you try out once a year, you’ll start from scratch every time.”     Lead images: Photo by Tim Tiedemann on Unsplash Photo by Toomas Tartes on Unsplash Read more articles How to find your way in the mountains 7 tips to plan a route in the mountains A veteran navigator's 9 tips for staying on track in the mountains 9 rules to follow when your trip in the mountains goes pear-shaped

Understanding how your energy is produced can aid training and improve your quality of life. Suunto partner PerfectPace explains your main power sources. The human body has two main energy systems it gets its power from; the aerobic and the anaerobic system. Most of us have heard these terms, but how many of us really understand how they work? All human cells use ATP to generate power. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), is an energy-carrying molecule found in the cells of all living things. ATP captures chemical energy obtained from the breakdown of food molecules and releases it to fuel other cellular processes. Phosphate, carbohydrate and fat are transformed into ATP which happens at different speeds.   Photo by Jonathan Chng on Unsplash The anaerobic alactic system No oxygen and no lactate. Sounds like this energy source is not very sustainable? Correct! The body has ATP reserves for about 7 seconds. During that short time it is possible to perform at your max power. Your body does not need to transform carbs or fats into ATP which takes time, but can directly access your ATP and phosphate storage. Afterwards the power output drops significantly. Purposed for fast and powerful movements, the anaerobic alactic energy system is the essential power source for sprinters and weightlifters.     Photo by Victoire Joncheray on Unsplash The anaerobic lactic system Above lactate threshold No oxygen, but lactate instead. During the final dash when you are out of breath, your legs burn, and you need to give all you got, your body is operating above lactate threshold. Purposed for intense activity, the energy source of this system – also called the anaerobic glycolytic system – is glycogen and lactate. Because of the lack of oxygen, metabolising fat isn’t really possible. But the body burns carbohydrates even without oxygen. This creates large quantities of lactate which make it impossible to perform for more than one to two minutes at this level. Lactate threshold means reaching the level of intensity where the body starts to create more lactate than it is able to metabolize. Below lactate threshold In this case, there is some oxygen in the body and the lactate can be broken down faster than it is created. A typical example of this might be a 10 km run. During those 30 to 60 minutes carbohydrate is the main energy source. The way ATP is created is the same as above lactate threshold. The difference is the lactate is being produced at a rate where it can still be broken down.     Photo by Jozsef Hocza on Unsplash The aerobic energy system This is the main power source for endurance athletes. Why? The aerobic system utilizes carbohydrates, fats and sometimes proteins to generate energy. Aerobic exercise can be sustained for longer periods of time. At this level, our carbohydrate store lasts for about 90 minutes. After that point the only energy source is fat. Even the leanest athlete has almost unlimited fat resources, but transforming fat into ATP is relatively slow. For endurance athletes it is very important to improve performance in the aerobic zone. One system While we can conceptually separate the three systems, it’s important to understand that our body’s cells use all energy sources at all times. What changes is the share each fuel source has on the total energy production. Even at rest the anaerobic lactic system, for example, is working at a low level.   PerfectPace is the endurance training platform for triathletes that takes you a step ahead. For a steady performance gain you had to know a lot about training methodology to plan your training sessions. Especially in a sport like triathlon where three sports need to be planned correctly. This is where PerfectPace steps in. It offers not only unique statistics that up to now were only available in expensive desktop applications but it also helps to create a plan that boosts your performance with the help of artificial intelligence, big data and the latest advances in training science. PerfectPace considers not only your training activities but also rest days, tapering, even injury and your personal strengths and weaknesses.   Lead images: Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash Read more articles Don't get sucked in the black hole Know your resting and max heart rates