VELOARCHITECT

Cadence × Resistance is the protocol that owns the cadence-and-load calibration. The Athlete does not have a "natural cadence"; the Athlete has a target training system, and cadence × resistance is the lever set that hits it. Veloarchitect dispatches 85–95 rpm at low resistance for aerobic development, 70–80 rpm at high resistance for muscular endurance, and 95–110 rpm at moderate-to-high resistance for neuromuscular priming. The athlete who treats cadence as a fixed personal preference is missing the protocol's system-targeting logic: an Athlete whose lactate clearance is weak benefits from 80 rpm over-unders; the same Athlete's neuromuscular priming is best at 100+ rpm. The protocol reads the Athlete's longitudinal record and dispatches the cadence × resistance combination the body needs.

Protocols: Protocol 3 — Threshold Sustain; Protocol 2 — VO₂max Repeats

The metric traverses the closed loop: Intent is the .zwo prescription the system computed against the Athlete’s True Normal. Telemetry is the .fit recording of the executed session. Adaptation is the longitudinal movement of the metric itself, logged against the True Normal and feeding back into the next day’s prescription via Protocol 10 (Adaptive Workout).