Originally Posted by
BikeNube
I hope this topic hasn't been beaten to death here, but I was wondering where you all keep keep your power when you're going down hill vs up hill vs flat during a TT.
Say there were several , maybe (3%) 1 minute hill climbs in a for example, 9 mile TT you want to average 300 watts in.
What power up and over and what power down would you want to keep your power at?Holding wind constant, of course.
You mean a time trial power pacing strategy calculation that is similar to something like this?:
You can do these types of calculations with my Optimal Cycling program that I just released last week (first public release, it's a command line tool right now). It's the most advanced tool of its kind and can take into account things such as hills, wind, acceleration, varying CdA, varying power, varying CRR, power output limits, etc....
http://optimalcycling.com/power-pacing/