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bobinski

Legendary Member
Location
Tulse Hill
That's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to training more with a power meter Andy. Not because I'm ever going to compete seriously with anyone other than myself, but I like the idea of measuring effort in comparison to variables like wind etc. Have you thought about getting one? You'd probably get more out of it than I will if you're racing.

Dean, Monte and I already train with power meters- called a NEO, even Andy has kind of an accurate power meter called a Kindle, sorry, Kickr^_^
 

CXRAndy

Guru
Location
Lincs
That's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to training more with a power meter Andy. Not because I'm ever going to compete seriously with anyone other than myself, but I like the idea of measuring effort in comparison to variables like wind etc. Have you thought about getting one? You'd probably get more out of it than I will if you're racing.


I've got one Tommy, Stages. Was working whilst I rode upto start then stopped. I think battery died arrgh!

So rode with heart rate and cadence. Average HR 175 peaking at 181 so felt like I had given it a good go
 

AAAC 76C

Large Member
Location
LIVING THE DREAM
I've got one Tommy, Stages. Was working whilst I rode upto start then stopped. I think battery died arrgh!

So rode with heart rate and cadence. Average HR 175 peaking at 181 so felt like I had given it a good go

My mate at work bought a Stages and he had trouble with battery drain.
I think is was because he had an older Garmin and the Stages was not going to sleep when not in use hence draining the battery.
I'll ask him but I know he ended up sending it back as he felt his days of doing any better are gone so he was going to stick to old fashioned methods i.e. HR and feel.

Do you remember how big we were on HR in our College days Dave?

I think we used to stick our fingers on our wrist and count for 30 seconds then double it.

Trouble is we were mechanics and not mathematicians so we gave up on that because it hurt our brains!
 
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rob01792

Über Member
Location
swansea
Thanks for the email @rob01792 ... you're clawing that time back!

I started of slower than I normally would and it seamed to work I was surprised how quickly I past my ghost for the rest of the ride I tried to stay in front of u by about 10 seconds as I knew if I tried to draft u and u pulled away I would have a struggle to pull u back in as I remember from Thursday the gap seamed to stay around 1.30 mark
 

Whorty

Gets free watts from the Atom ;)
Location
Wiltshire
I started of slower than I normally would and it seamed to work I was surprised how quickly I past my ghost for the rest of the ride I tried to stay in front of u by about 10 seconds as I knew if I tried to draft u and u pulled away I would have a struggle to pull u back in as I remember from Thursday the gap seamed to stay around 1.30 mark
I knew if you controlled your start you'd get a better time. It's that fine line between going fast enough to take advantage of the bkool power surge and not too fast that you can't recover. :okay:
 
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