I am racing Rev 3 Anderson this weekend and it has LOTS of turns (~48). I have an idea of what power I can hold over 56 miles, but it seems that my average power will certainly be reduced by the number of turns. Given that I use my average power to gauge my effort and pace properly, is there a general rule of thumb for target power compensation on a very technical course? I don’t want to end up pushing too hard in order to keep the average up to where I thought it should be… OR should I perhaps extend the intervals of power display and focus entirely on instantaneous power?
Thanks for the help!
if your head unit can display normalized power, just use that instead, targeting the same number.
if it can’t, you can use the ‘poor mans normalized power’ which is to use non zero averaging. some head units you can set to not include the zeros when calculating average power. That will be closeish to normalized power.
Awesome; I didn’t know that instantaneous NP display was even possible haha. Thank you!
Awesome; I didn’t know that instantaneous NP display was even possible haha. Thank you!
On a Garmin 500 (or higher)… yes.
On a Timex cycle trainer… nope…nada… no dice…just AP and 1s power.
Not sure about other brands of computers.
Thanks. I’ve got a Cycleops Joule GPS and it works 