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For those of you who DON'T use average speed
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Originally Posted by
Bob Dopolina
Before I had a PM I used HR.
Despite those who think contemporary training models were invented with the PM, the basic concepts of training with a HRM are the same as with a PM - TIME in ZONE - but a PM is simply a better tool with which to measure.
After that I would say know TIME on a known course.
Then PE.
AVE SPD is just such an inaccurate measurement unless you can do a truly uninterrupted ride (which few can) that is it a poor metric.
What Bob said.
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