Even with doing VE before owning this thing I used to find that having a steady constant grade if you're going to have one worked better than having a route dotted with "pimples" along the way of little rises and falls of barely any consequence.
The out/back nature would make sense for a constant grade out and opposite of that back. The pimple or mole hill scenario mid-route I would think would be of more concern.
With these sensors, the wind/elevation "cancellation" for an avg shouldn't be too big a deal since it measures it. The issue with it with VE before owning a sensor was not knowing the instant wind scenarios. So I'm going to actually see if it can work for me to do a false flat downhill so I can do infinitely more testing at "10 mile race pace" without being limited to the 22ish minutes of work at that power I can handle. I'll just play with it and see what I can see. If not, just winds up being a good Z2/tempo workout.
The out/back nature would make sense for a constant grade out and opposite of that back. The pimple or mole hill scenario mid-route I would think would be of more concern.
With these sensors, the wind/elevation "cancellation" for an avg shouldn't be too big a deal since it measures it. The issue with it with VE before owning a sensor was not knowing the instant wind scenarios. So I'm going to actually see if it can work for me to do a false flat downhill so I can do infinitely more testing at "10 mile race pace" without being limited to the 22ish minutes of work at that power I can handle. I'll just play with it and see what I can see. If not, just winds up being a good Z2/tempo workout.