Originally Posted by
Bunyanderman
If you need to get in the pack, it might require you to put out 400w for 10 seconds. If you don't, you will be dropped and then you have no chance of placing competitively. Some people with a power meter might be afraid of reaching 400w, as they know they will blow up at that power. But you definitely need to push to make it into the group.
That's not a problem with the power meter, it's a problem with the rider. Andy Coggan likes to point out that the title of his book is "Training and Racing with a Power Meter" not "Training and Racing by a Power Meter."