jsutkeepspining

nope 350, the graph says my cp is like 410

edit: whoops didnt even see the cp value, just too the actual hour max number it showed.

rkwaki

That's great power though my young friend.

jsutkeepspining

yeah, and i think my ftp has stayed the same since the end of the off season, and with this week off i shuoldnt lose anytihng. So im hitting the start of base with my peak ftp. hoping to see a 5-10% increase like i did last year after base.

rkwaki

Mine has fallen (by design) as I have been lazy (on the bike) for the last three weeks. Took two weeks completely of the bike and rode a little last week. Real focus on gym work right now...

jsutkeepspining

i would like to do some gym work this winter, but i really want to just focus on the bike, and continue to grow. im planning to do 16ish hours weeks all throughout base, with a good amount of z3 included. should see big power jumps in terms of my aerobic power,then in latejan-feb ill start working z5+

rkwaki

**** to have that kind of time again...
I plan on sitting on my ass until March then think about it a little then jump on the bike...

jsutkeepspining

i mean im goign to be riding the rollers pretty much every night then be able to ride outdoors friday-sunday

rkwaki

I have a friend who rides rollers 16 hours a week during the winter.

I ride a spin bike which would be like riding a fixie or track bike. I think it is either a 38 or 42 pound flywheel.
I find an hour on it feels like two hours on a trainer/road ride.

165mm crank and i ride at 100 rpm.

jsutkeepspining

main plan is to have one day be hour of tempo, one day be 2x20's at .85 and an hour of z2 before hand, and the last day to be 2 hours of z2
then monday will be z1 recovery, and friday will be easy 2 hours on the road. Sat and sunday will be 2 4 hour rides

echappist

sh** data in = sh** data out



1min @ 1000W
5min @ 800W

jsutkeepspining

i dont know why its like that, i only have a couple of rides even uploaded on this computer, but or some reason, im apparently insanely strong!

zitter

so I did a 20 minute test and averaged 349w, so 95% is 331.5 which means my ftp would be approximately 331.5w/83kg = ~4 w/kg? I think I can do better since my heart rate was a bit sluggish and my legs didn't feel as fresh (maybe too hard of a weekend). I'll try doing it again later this week to verify

rkwaki

That's still a pretty good result. Wait a couple of weeks and try again, wait until the legs are fresh and see.
You and I are about the same weight so I can let you know that with that kind of number you should fair pretty well.

beatlebee 

I did an hour of power Sunday with the PT. Just trying to keep it steady and not push at race efforts. My average was 272 W. Golden Cheetah then uses some method to compute critical power from this data and it came out with 298 W. Any comments on how accurate the GC number is? Does it matter as in is that the number I should shoot for during a race effort for an hour?
Thanks!

jsutkeepspining

honestly, i dont use th golden cheetah cp or anything like that for the info. I just do ftp test, and the occasional race (rarely i have to run at ftp for an hour even np).

beatlebee 

Thanks. There are many hill climb events here that require steady power for one or two hours. I am trying to figure out where I stand for next year. (I have also looked at the winning times. )

beatlebee 

I’ve got another question:

I am using a powertap, joule 2.0, and golden cheetah. Is there a way to have the joule display show up on my computer screen, in real time, when riding on rollers. I think this would be useful so that when watching a movie or whatever, I can have the power numbers right there. Thanks.

beatlebee 

deleted: double post

echappist

ANT+ stick. And Garmin's not the only company making it. I think GC 3.0 supports it.

mattm

Try loading the data in WKO to get a better view of it; GC doesn't iron out kinks/spikes in data very well.

beatlebee 

Thanks!!

echappist

while you are at it, for anything nerdy (and i'm a bike gear nerd), one of the best resources is DC Rainmaker's blog

beatlebee 

Great site. Thank you again!

jsutkeepspining

ewww but dc's a tri-geek!

shermo

I manage my files using GC, but my coach uses WKO+. Is there any way I can export files from GC in a format that's useable by WKO?

I guess I could just give him the .fit files straight from my garmin, but that's not ideal.

Thanks