Originally Posted by
seppomadness
Its quite a useless stupid answer by him. 2 seconds? What an idiot. His 5 second avg would drop quickly to about 1500 (end of race) and 1600 fresh....his 15-25 second avg would be far further down again (similar to what Zabel was refering too...around 1200-1300 watts tops).
How is 2s meaningless? 2s power is the difference between getting on a wheel as it comes by and fighting to catch it.
Or are you saying that it's not an accurate measure? I don't see how you need a 40 samples of the crank to get a usable number. Every time it comes around you know how far it's moved in how long. If you have tourque at 200hz you can get average power for that rotation pretty easily. Taking 4 points above 1900 then seems pretty reasonable.