Y-Tri wrote:
Neo is looking like a great option.
Quick question ........... is it possible (and if so, how easy) to get a course loaded for an upcoming or previous race and get the resistance of that course while training?
How does loading a specific course work?
This is mainly what I am interested in at this point.
Thanks!!!
I did this with perfpro, and it totally sucked.
The main reason it sucked was because the GPS traces I used (some of my own, some of other's actual race rides) end up having too many small power or elevation variances such that your Kickr is constantly changing the wattage on you, like every second or few seconds, which drives you nuts. On the road, you can modulate your power since you can coast over the smaller hills as needed, but on a Kickr, it just feels terrible, like your Kickr has gone insane and won't hold steady no matter what.
I however will bet that if you take the time to manually flatten out the courses so there are no tiny variances (like breaking down the course into fixed %climb sections or fixed wattage sections) it would work great for training. (In my experience the Perfpro 'flatten course' feature didn't work well enough at all to make the downloaded GPS courses ridable.)
I may actually build some of my own favorite local hillclimbs with this method - I keep saying that but it's now been years and I haven't gotten around to doing it!