Originally Posted by SirScott
Has anyone with a powermeter compared their recorded power output on a climb to the generated output of analyticcycling.com? Plugging in the data for a local climb and all of my info, it puts me at 4.5W/kg. My gut says this is pretty darn close to accurate, but I'm just curious if anyone has compared the two side by side.
Not the analyticcycling algorithm per se, but there have been papers published validating the model used there. The results show that the model is accurat to better than 2%, which is about the same as powermeters.