Monday, 11 June 2007

Wattage inversely correlated to pain

Had a bit of a strange episode where a higher wattage was more unfomfortable, although a lot less painfull than the feeling after reducing the wattage after a period of time. 30 minutes at 345W with a 6 repeats of alternating 1 minute 380W-390W and 2 min at 320W in the middle was quite interesting as backing off to 160W afterwards started to really hurt after about a minute. Increasing the wattage back up to 280-300 dulled the pain after about 30 seconds.

Anyhow, tonight set a new max 5 min average, although not quite sure how you can have a normalised power reading lower than the average ? Good thing was the average HR was nearly 10bpm lower than 1 month ago, but, the previous 5 min was out on the road.
5 minute average = 412W (410W norm ? - hr 162 avg )
Previous = 410W (416W norm - hr 171 avg)

Set a new 5 second last night.
5 second 1135W (1171 max) - max reading on ergomo was 1203W ?
Previous 1123W (1200 max) - ergomo >1200W ?
Not quite sure how the ergomo is reading >1200W when the sampling was set to 2 revs / sample as my cadence was lower than 120, which should represent 1 second...

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