So I have an interesting question… Is there a way for the computrainer or some other software to calculate estimated bike time given a course (i.e GPS data or Computrainer course) and average power? Of course you could enter Cda, rider and bike weight, drag factor and wind to get a better estimate. Just to get rough estimate… (I fully understand the real world conditions can trump any estimation, but I thought it might be useful to get “ball park” bike times (i.e for an Ironman if you know what your FTP or your race pace power is))
I imagine one way to do it is to make to “silver man” on the computrainer go at a set power and see when he finishes. Obviously this is totally a waste of time, but I feel that the appropriate data is available to somehow get the calculated/simulated finish time.
Any thoughts?
Again, I do understand that real world vs simulation can be very far off. This is I guess more of an academic question that maybe someone has already figured out. Thanks much.