Originally Posted by
nycphotography
A) Counting miles on the trainer is pointless. If you insist on counting something, you should count "effort" either as watts or heart rate, and "time". If you are training for a purpose, record time, watts AND HR.
+1 There is no such thing as a mile ridden on a trainer. It is an arbitrary unit of measurement that can be defined to mean pretty much anything and has no correlation with effort. Conceptually, the computer can measure it because your wheel is rotating, but practically, you haven't
gone anywhere.
Originally Posted by
nycphotography
B) Does the Garmin keep recording if you aren't actually moving? I have a 705 and CinQo on the way.... but it occured to me that I would probably want to keep using my Powertap on the trainer, because the GPS would detect no movement and the 705 would stop recording.
Yes, you can set it to not auto pause.
Originally Posted by
nycphotography
Does anyone have any experience with this? I'd love to use the 705 and the CinQo on the trainer to record power and HR w/o having to use the powertap wheel. It seems so... redundant.
Yes, I was using mine on the trainer this morning.
Originally Posted by
RiverHills
how do you measure power?
Originally Posted by
RiverHills
As with all my posts, I need to remind the participants that I am not an AIG executive; I don't have an unlimited budget to spend on biking. I have a basic magnetic trainer (one that received the best rating by Bicycling Magazine), and an inexpensive computer from Nashbar. Both serve me just fine. I don't care how good the trainer is, you'll never simulate road riding 100%, so my intent is not to equate the two, but rather just have some sort of means to track my progress, or set goals for myself, much the same as I do when road riding.
Just record time, and HR if you have it.