Originally Posted by Jandro

Disclaimer: I race and train with a PM

For me, the powermeter actually helps MORE on days I don't want to go hard. Keeping things in zone 2 can be hard, especially if your legs are feeling ok and you're riding with a partner or five. It's easy to not notice you're pushing too many watts for a rest/z2 day. Then you pay for it later on in the block.

OP, pretty numbers on your strava profile will only be exciting for so long before it's just another 'avg speed' chart for you. The power of a power meter (I'm hilarious) is using it for structured training plans; whether that means intervals, rest weeks, tracking fatigue and stress, or flipping to a blank garmin page and just riding around.

Just my $0.02 but if you're going to drop the money for a PM, you should use it for its intended purpose. Otherwise that's an awful lot of money to pay for a new graph to stare at.