Some of you are unsure of a meter's value. I was too for the past 2 years.

It was my coach who pressured me to get one. So I did and now I've learned it was really for him so he could help me train better. Oh well.

There is some value when riding to measure your effort. Knowing your functional threshold tells you how hard (not how easy) your can really ride in an hour.

Watts is the only objective measure of your effort taking into account hills up and down, wind in front or behind, riding alone or in a group etc.

My coach uses watts to measure effort, progress and to build up my functional threshold.

Measuring watts and cadence says a lot. Adding heart rate and speed is somewhat important. Ultimately speed is a by product of watts and cadence.

Still learning more about power meters. Guess I'm glad have it now as definitely getting stronger with it these past 6 weeks.