VELOARCHITECT

Recovery Spin is the smallest dose Veloarchitect dispatches. It is not a workout; it is a metabolic intervention triggered by a specific signal: Failure Horizon collapse inside 72 hours, Readiness Ratio below 0.78 for two consecutive mornings, post-race return-to-load, or cross-referenced HRV Decoupling below the systemic threshold. The 50% target is below the Athlete's first ventilatory threshold; cardiac stress is minimal, but motion accelerates lactate clearance. The Athlete who treats Recovery Spin as "wasted time" and rides at 70% instead produces a different physiological stimulus (more aerobic, less clearance) and undoes the recovery intent. Recovery dispatch is logged against the Athlete's 100-day True Normal — the longitudinal record the system reads to confirm the intervention recovered the Athlete rather than merely occupied the day.

Protocols: Protocol 11 — Failure Horizon; Protocol 10 — Adaptive Workout

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).