Burhed wrote:
I really hope you are not trolling with all this and wasting everybody's time. I'll give the benefit of the doubt. Don't worry about your speed day to day. There can be so many factors for how fast you are on a specific day. What you ate for breakfast, temperature, humidity, air pressure (yes, air pressure can have an affect, read the Platypus thread), wind (even slight) etc. Just go out and ride your bike.
If you really want to know how you are doing day to day get a power meter. It will tell you when you are fatigued much better than your speed. Can't hold the power you normally can today? Probably because of the running intervals you did earlier. Pushing solid power? Probably going on a bit fresher legs.
You seem to be into the tech of cycling so maybe a power meter would be right up your alley. When you start training smart with power you won't care about your speed on day to day rides.
Nope I am not a troll can assure you. But thanks for the info and yes a power meter definitely seems to be a great tool. This is no different than a runner using a heart rate monitor to gauge his/her level of fitness and to be able to make sure they are not running too fast for a specific key workout/race. i.e., one should never run more than 75% of their maximum heart rate for a full marathon, half marathons should be no more than 85% of ones max heart rate. These are generalizations and there are plenty of non elites and elites who have got away with pushing it.
But yes I should have gotten one of these to see if there is a difference in wheelsets so I am thinking. But then again maybe using a heart rate while going up a gentle hill can also tell me the same level of effort via heart rate. The watts measured while peddling up some of the gentle rolling hills I guess would make determining whether claims by certain wheel manufacturers are really what they claim
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marathonrunner: Jul 26, 17 23:59