Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
I agree about power being more useful in pretty much every way. I still wear the chest strap though. It's less useful but still has value.
Not for me. At least with most of the riding I do. When I am doing a zone 2 ride, effort is so low that the numbers don’t really tell me anything that perceived effort doesn’t tell me. When I am doing structured work like zone 5 or above, it is mostly flat out and fairly short duration so, again perceived effort tells me what I need to know. Now I do use it when doing sprint type efforts to gauge recovery. I tend to do that type of work from a fully recovered state