Bike & training

Endurance sport is the obsession — triathlon and cycling, with the gym as the base underneath it. The training has me 100+ lbs down, and it's the thing that keeps everything else honest.

Canyon Aeroad CF SLX 8 Di2 road bike — The Canyon Aeroad CF SLX 8 Di2 — aero carbon, electronic shifting, no excuses.

The bike

Frame: Canyon Aeroad CF SLX — aero carbon race frame
Groupset: Shimano Di2 electronic shifting
Head unit: Garmin Edge 1050 — routing, sensors, and live metrics
Logged on: Strava — every ride, every watt

Training & recovery

Discipline: Triathlon & cycling — long endurance base with structured intervals
Lifting: A 4-day PHUL split (power / hypertrophy, upper / lower)
Wearable: Garmin Fenix 8 — training load, sleep, recovery
Nutrition: MacroFactor — the data behind 100+ lbs down

It started as weight loss and turned into a sport. Same wiring as everything else here — measure it, log it, chase the next number.

Elsewhere

Battlestation →

Where the rides get analyzed — the desk, the dials, the capture chain.

desk setup

Home →

Sacramento, the career, the homelab, and the rest of it.

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Brendan Welsh — Sacramento · 2026 · back home