If anyone can answer this, the AmericanPeople are interested to know how many in the Pro field at Abu Dhabi were using powermeters?
Those are beautiful photos on the main page, but most do not reveal the drive-train side of the bike…and, the AmericanPeople are not sophisticated enough to detect a powertap hub on a disc wheel. Most dudes being in their aerobars it is hard to see a SRM or Powertap head-unit………although it does look like Jordan and Van Lierde are running a Powertap.
I could very likely be wrong, but I suspect few pros were using powermeters, which leads me to this question:
The bike course was flat so maybe what a powermeter tells you on a flat course is not so important, so why bother? If the race was hilly and had some serious climbing, would you have then seen more powermeters……as on a course like this they might have more utility?
Or, is it a matter of economics where powermeters are a luxury and it is hard for the typical pro-triathlete to afford one? I am not aware that SRM, Powertap or Quark sponsor pros…please correct me if I am wrong…
Sorry if these are elementary questions, but I was wondering……so please be gentle with me
(Jackmott: The clock is ticking = You have less than 10 minutes to answer all or even one of these questions. Amything less and I will be extremely disappointed in you)
well if there was wind the powertap would still be a bonus
but, I imagine pros, who have lots of htfu and lots of experience can do a better job of pacing by PE than most people. Worked for norman stadler.
If anyone can answer this, the AmericanPeople are interested to know how many in the Pro field at Abu Dhabi were using powermeters?
Those are beautiful photos on the main page, but most do not reveal the drive-train side of the bike…and, the AmericanPeople are not sophisticated enough to detect a powertap hub on a disc wheel. Most dudes being in their aerobars it is hard to see a SRM or Powertap head-unit………although it does look like Jordan and Van Lierde are running a Powertap.
I could very likely be wrong, but I suspect few pros were using powermeters, which leads me to this question:
The bike course was flat so maybe what a powermeter tells you on a flat course is not so important, so why bother? If the race was hilly and had some serious climbing, would you have then seen more powermeters……as on a course like this they might have more utility?
Or, is it a matter of economics where powermeters are a luxury and it is hard for the typical pro-triathlete to afford one? I am not aware that SRM, Powertap or Quark sponsor pros…please correct me if I am wrong…
Sorry if these are elementary questions, but I was wondering……so please be gentle with me
(Jackmott: The clock is ticking = You have less than 10 minutes to answer all or even one of these questions. Amything less and I will be extremely disappointed in you)
They install a filter that lets them ignore their power readings as needed.
This is okay I suppose, but it defies the law of: “When you free your mind, your ass will follow”
Which is to suggest that you ride free of all power data…don’t think about it = tape up that head unit. Ride on PE, HR and whatever you can diivine from your Cateye. Ride completely and blissfully ignorant of power…even though you are riding with power.
Reconcile it back against your training data.
The AmericanPeople suggest it would be fascinating to learn of how average watts in training match up against average watts on race day.
Why bother taping up the display? Just don’t look at it or ignore it. I never understood the need to tape over the display. As if inadvertently gazing upon your power output would break your spirit right there, leaving you huddled in a fetal position on the side of the road.
Many pros blow up go to any IM aor 70.3 and there a lot of pros who get the pacing wrong, so maybe they should be using their PM. case in point Craig Alexander dials in the power numbers and executes perfectly.
Yes AG get it wrong, but plenty pros do, there are simply more AG to see getting in wrong than there are pros. The HTFU and experience of pe is all well and good, you can argue the data but your body is as fit as it is and it will have a limit, power is a [retty good way of monitoring the effort, so HTFU and go for it is probably leading to a blow up.
Have to say I can see why a pro might do it the leader and the money are heading down the road on the bike, I know that I can’t run any faster than x so I had best chase.
