Ride hard, ride safe and pedal on!Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. So however you may be cycling this weekend. W’ or W’bal: Formerly known as Anaerobic Work Capacity (AWC). The highest power that a rider can maintain in a quasi-steady state without fatiguing for approximately one hour. Never forget to just ride for fun every once in a while too! A power that theoretically can be maintained for an indefinitely long time without fatigue. For me it’s a solid way of tracking real progress. The trick is not to get bogged down and just keep an eye on the metrics that are important to your particular cycling goals. Like I said, it’s certainly not for everyone! You can very easily get sucked into the black hole of endless data sets, which can drain the fun out of cycling. It takes time to get your head around the many GC graphs and data points. The aim is to create an open-access database of endurance exercise data for use by amateurs, academics and professionals. Looking over my data shows positive power level trends as both my short and long term training loads increase. Golden Cheetah is not the most user friendly software available but on the plus side it’s free! In January 2018 The GoldenCheetah Open Data project was started to enable athletes to contribute to the body of data available for the benefit of cyclists.
It gives me a good indicator of how fresh or fatigued I am within a training cycle. I use Golden Cheetah to track my keep tabs on my long term (chronic) and short term (acute) training loads. Ride with power, and train hard – but remember to enjoy the journey!įor me it’s about that continual improvement. Having all my rides logged with power means I can easily track fitness improvements and monitor training load over time. This year so far I’ve completed a majority of my training on rollers and Zwift, giving me a widespread data bank of power files from my PowerTap G3 hub. If you STILL want to delve into the world of power, go ahead and pull the trigger! If you’re not put off by that, buy the book Training and Racing with a Powermeter and read it cover to cover. New to power? First click this Cycling Weekly article for the basics then take a look at some Golden Cheetah videos on YouTube. Modeling the Expenditure and Reconstitution of Work Capacity above Critical Power: The present data do suggest a novel technological application: the.
At the end of the day 200 watts is 200 watts. Other training metrics such as average speed, Strava segments and heart rate are variable and dependent on outside factors, But with wattage you either make it or you don’t. It’s not for everyone, you need to love numbers and be a bit of a geek at heart.