Power Mentor Group with Shane & Marc - Closed. (Page 6)

Jaime -- rest and ice!!  Elevate if you can.  I've been through knee injuries and they suck.  Hopefully this was just a minor tweak and a little time (like a couple days!) will take care of it....then you can play with your new toy.

Marc -- will you be posting a youtube video to teach us these French curse words?  I only know how to curse (fluently) in English....I can make Spanish work too

Well that was a complete bust! I went for a ride with a friend, and thought I'd get some good power data. Not a hard ride, easy pace, some hills, mostly rolling, some flat.

So.....my average power was 2, with a max of 8! I knew it was easy, but really? I calibrated it, twice, because after 30 minutes I noticed it was not working. I have no idea what the problem is, it worked fine 2 weeks ago on an outdoor ride. I just changed the battery in Sept., so I doubt it's a battery issue. Arrr, frustrating!

And then the battery in my HR monitor died halfway out (I knew that was getting low), so I have no data except time & distance.

Need to figure out what happened.....and fix it stat!

Not shy, but I've been quiet! I was home visiting family from 12/21-12/26. First trainer ride since vacay is on the agenda for today - and a longer (or outside?!) ride on tap for Sunday. 

I'm hoping to get all of the awesome power stuff up and running. If nothing else, I'll post the data after the ride. I've been having technology issues - like a Garmin that works intermittently... the Joule seems to be reliable though

Yes I do have a separate cadence sensor, so I of course have my cadence from the ride. I'm assuming it's from that sensor and not the powertap. I didn't realize the powertap would give me that, I had the speed cadence sensor from when I was using Trainer Road and virtual power.

I just spent 45 minutes fighting with Garmin Connect, trying to log in, finally got in, then trying to upload, which was a big fat fail. I told you I'm not technical! I'll have my husband help me tomorrow - with the powertap, Gamin Connect, Strava & GC. (BTW - I did watch the videos and they were helpful.)

Going to attempt to get powertap working again today. The only thing I can think of is I turned on the zeros on my garmin before the ride yesterday. I checked my last prior outdoor ride two weeks ago with zeros off & average was 203, so it was working recently. Stay tuned...wish me luck!

in doing the BT/Jorge program testing multiple times I found that I can have a better 20' test if I perform the 5' test first.  I've been between 28W and 39W lower for the 20' test result vs the 5' test.  I always have a biggest difference for the 1st test after not being on teh bike in a while and narrower after doing all of the program.  So if it been a while, I take my 5' test calc the speed to be ~35W less and try to hang on or if I've done the threshold phase calc for and shoot for 30W less.  Either way the 20' test is a horrible beast!

That chart is very interesting, a great feedback mechanism.  Looking forward to making my own chart this year!

Originally posted by marcag

Originally posted by ligersandtions - question for you about Golden Cheetah: is there a way to overlay your max 5/20/60/90/120 minute power output on the PMC, or is that something you can only do in Training Peaks?  I'd really like to have that feature, but I haven't been able to figure out if you can do it or not.

For those that don't know what a PMC is, here is a bit of a teaser. We will cover this again, but seeing it now will just make it easier to relate to later A PMC chart shows how much work/fitness we have done over time Here is my PMC for all 3 sports combined over time (3 years in this case). But a PMC is normally maintained per sport, especially for the bike.

THe blue line is the equivalent of my fitness. It uses a formula that averages work done in the last 40 or so days. Notice it's at it's lowest during the off-season (now) and highest a few weeks before a race, The red line is short term fatigue. I do a really hard workout/week and it spikes The yellow line is my stress balance. It's basically a measure of how fresh I am. It drops when mty fatigue spikes So the idea is to get the blue line as high as possible, for maximum fitness. In doing so, my short term fatigue is also going to go very high. If i wanted to race at the peak of that fitness, I may not do well because I was so fatigued So the idea is to get a very high blue line, then taper and gain more freshness than I am losing fitness What is interesting about this chart is it shows that over the years, I have raised my training load. The lows (typically) in Dec are still higher year over year. If you notice the dotted lines on the right, those are my projected loads for 2014 so I can hit a peak greater than ever before So what is cool is I can quantify the work I need to do and my power meter will allow me to translate that into watts and hours of training This is a great way to say "this year I want to do 10% more than last year". Or it's a way to say "People that KQ typically put X TSS". Or "if my load is Y, I end up getting sick or injuring myself" All these numbers are derived from power. We will measure your FTP. TSS will be used to calculate the load of a workout based on your FTP and the Power you generated in the workout. This chart is an accumulation of those TSS scores. If this is Chinese, NO PROBLEMO. We will slowly get back into this and it will become more clear as we move forward If you have historic power data, this chart could be built from it.