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I built an app for my mum who has been struggling with acid reflux for years - and I wanted to share it here in case it helps anyone else.

She'd been going back and forth to the GP for a long time, but pinpointing what was actually setting her off felt impossible. She'd try cutting things out randomly, but without any real pattern to go on, it was mostly guesswork. I'm a developer, and watching her go through that was honestly hard. So I built something.

It's called Reflux Radar. The idea is simple: you log what you eat in plain English (no barcode scanning, no endless food databases — just type "cheese toastie and a black coffee" and it figures out the rest), and you log how you feel. Over time, it analyses the patterns between your meals and your symptoms and surfaces your personal triggers — the foods that most consistently precede your bad days.

I want to be clear: it's not a cure, and it's not medical advice. My mum still has reflux. But what it has done is take the guesswork away. She now knows that white bread, for example, is followed by heartburn in almost every case for her — something she'd never have spotted on her own. That kind of clarity has helped her make small, targeted changes rather than just cutting out everything and hoping for the best.

One thing that's made a real difference at her GP appointments: the app lets you export your data, and I helped her turn it into a spreadsheet showing her symptom frequency, her top triggers, and the evidence behind each pattern. Her doctor said it was one of the most useful things a patient had ever brought in. That meant a lot.

If anyone here is struggling to figure out what's driving their reflux or GERD, it might be worth a try. It's on the App Store — just search Reflux Radar.

Hope it helps someone the way it's helped her. Also really open to any feedback so I can keep improving it!💙

I built an app for my mum who has been struggling with acid reflux for years - and I wanted to share it here in case it helps anyone else.

She'd been going back and forth to the GP for a long time, but pinpointing what was actually setting her off felt impossible. She'd try cutting things out randomly, but without any real pattern to go on, it was mostly guesswork. I'm a developer, and watching her go through that was honestly hard. So I built something.

It's called Reflux Radar. The idea is simple: you log what you eat in plain English (no barcode scanning, no endless food databases — just type "cheese toastie and a black coffee" and it figures out the rest), and you log how you feel. Over time, it analyses the patterns between your meals and your symptoms and surfaces your personal triggers — the foods that most consistently precede your bad days.

I want to be clear: it's not a cure, and it's not medical advice. My mum still has reflux. But what it has done is take the guesswork away. She now knows that white bread, for example, is followed by heartburn in almost every case for her — something she'd never have spotted on her own. That kind of clarity has helped her make small, targeted changes rather than just cutting out everything and hoping for the best.

One thing that's made a real difference at her GP appointments: the app lets you export your data, and I helped her turn it into a spreadsheet showing her symptom frequency, her top triggers, and the evidence behind each pattern. Her doctor said it was one of the most useful things a patient had ever brought in. That meant a lot.

If anyone here is struggling to figure out what's driving their reflux or GERD, it might be worth a try. It's on the App Store — just search Reflux Radar.

Hope it helps someone the way it's helped her. Also really open to any feedback so I can keep improving it!💙

I built an app for my mum who has been struggling with acid reflux for years - and I wanted to share it here in case it helps anyone else.

She'd been going back and forth to the GP for a long time, but pinpointing what was actually setting her off felt impossible. She'd try cutting things out randomly, but without any real pattern to go on, it was mostly guesswork. I'm a developer, and watching her go through that was honestly hard. So I built something.

It's called Reflux Radar. The idea is simple: you log what you eat in plain English (no barcode scanning, no endless food databases — just type "cheese toastie and a black coffee" and it figures out the rest), and you log how you feel. Over time, it analyses the patterns between your meals and your symptoms and surfaces your personal triggers — the foods that most consistently precede your bad days.

I want to be clear: it's not a cure, and it's not medical advice. My mum still has reflux. But what it has done is take the guesswork away. She now knows that white bread, for example, is followed by heartburn in almost every case for her — something she'd never have spotted on her own. That kind of clarity has helped her make small, targeted changes rather than just cutting out everything and hoping for the best.

One thing that's made a real difference at her GP appointments: the app lets you export your data, and I helped her turn it into a spreadsheet showing her symptom frequency, her top triggers, and the evidence behind each pattern. Her doctor said it was one of the most useful things a patient had ever brought in. That meant a lot.

If anyone here is struggling to figure out what's driving their reflux or GERD, it might be worth a try. It's on the App Store — just search Reflux Radar.

Hope it helps someone the way it's helped her. Also really open to any feedback so I can keep improving it!💙

So I used to think nutrition tracking was something for bodybuilders and pros. Overly precise, a bit miserable, not really relevant to someone just trying to train well and improve.

I don't think that anymore!

I come from a marathon and ultra background, switched to cycling about three years ago after injury forced me to stop running. Got serious about it quickly, started training with a Wahoo, worked with a coach for a while, did the Dragon Ride in 2024. I also work in data analytics, so when I finally turned my attention to nutrition I approached it the same way I would any data problem. Pull the numbers, understand what they mean, build something useful from them.

Many of us are already doing this manually. Pulling TrainingPeaks and Strava data, doing the maths, trying to figure out what to eat around a training block. I wanted to make that process easier so I built something properly.

It's called Velorific. It connects to Strava and TrainingPeaks, which covers most Wahoo users already since SYSTM and the Wahoo app both sync there. It reads your training load after every session and automatically adjusts your daily macro targets around it. Hard day means more, rest day pulls back, easy spin sits somewhere in between. The methodology follows published sports science ranges and I've written it all up in a blog post if anyone wants to dig into the detail behind it.

Started as a spreadsheet, then a local server on my laptop, then something polished enough to share with my running and cycling clubs. The difference for me personally has been consistency. Hard days are properly fuelled. Easier days are less random. Lost a bit of weight without ever trying to diet, which honestly wasn't something I was expecting.

Still early days and genuinely open to feedback from people who train seriously, good or bad. That stuff matters more than anything right now.

Many of us are already doing this manually: pulling TrainingPeaks data, doing the maths, trying to figure out what to eat around a training block. I come from a marathon and ultra background, now a club cyclist, and I wanted to make that process easier so I built something.

It's called Velorific. It connects to TrainingPeaks and Strava, reads your training load after every session, and automatically adjusts your daily macro targets around it. Carbs move with the effort. Protein and fat stay fairly consistent. Hard day means more, rest day pulls back, easy spin sits somewhere in between. I've written up the methodology and sources in more detail in a blog post if anyone wants to dig into the reasoning behind it.

Started as a spreadsheet, then a local server on my laptop, then something polished enough to share with my running and cycling clubs. Still early days and genuinely open to feedback from people who train seriously, good or bad.

The difference for me personally has been consistency. Hard days are properly fuelled. Easier days are less random. Lost a bit of weight without ever trying to diet in the traditional sense, which I wasn't expecting.

If anyone is doing interesting things with their TrainingPeaks data around nutrition I would love to hear about it here too.

Hi all - just wanted to share in case it can help other endurance athletes!

I built Velorific after trying a few apps myself and thinking I could do better in terms of building something for myself that I find useful. I work in data and analytics in a UK university and come from a marathon/ultra background but switched to cycling three years ago. 

Velorific is a middle ground between the static macro and messy UI of Mapmyfitness and the complexity (and messy UI) of Hexis.

• Load comes from Strava's relative effort, bucketed into easy / moderate / hard / very hard. Thresholds calibrated empirically against real ride data.
• Carbohydrate scales with the bucket, using the ranges in Burke et al., "Carbohydrates for training and competition" (J Sports Sci, 2011): roughly 3-5 g/kg rest, 5-7 moderate, 6-10 hard, 8-12 very hard.
• Protein 1.6-1.8 g/kg, fat ~1.0 g/kg, both within the ACSM / AND / DC Joint Position Stand ranges (Thomas, Erdman, Burke; J Acad Nutr Diet, 2016).
• Recovery modifier: the day after a very hard session the deficit is waived, after a hard session it is halved. Standard energy-availability protection, framed against the IOC RED-S consensus (Mountjoy et al., Br J Sports Med, 2018).
• The deficit itself adapts via a 28-day weight-trend regression, capped at ±100 kcal, so the target tracks actual loss rate rather than wishful thinking.

It's made a real difference to my own training. I am down ~1.4 kg over the last couple of months while eating more than I ever have, and FTP from low 260s to high 290s in the same window.

Proper targeted nutrition means you arrive at quality sessions with the energy to actually execute them, which of course is what drives the adaptation. I've been coached before and nutrition was the missing piece.

Let me know if you have any feedback or questions! Thanks.