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I have now gone from just having a smart turbo (which measures/controls power) to having power measurement on the road and commuting bike.
Given the two power meters I feel I ought to start tracking more of the data and looking to see where I can improve.
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And I'm a little worried by the thought that to benefit from tracking such things, it would need to know the details of all my activities right? So that means power for the commuting bike, summer road bike and winter road bike?
Yeah this is annoying, and can easily lead to mulitple power meters. If you do most of your important training on the bike with the power meter, you can estimate TSS for your commutes etc as long as you record them with your garmin. In Golden Cheetah there is a "estimate power" that will do a strava like power estimate based on your speed and elevation. It will chuck out a TSS value at the end. You can then delete the power data but it keeps the TSS estimate.
I track my commutes this way, not ideal but not bad either. If your commutes are a big part of your training load than this isn't the best.
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Was asking myself the same last night. I'm not entirely sure what you get for free. Do you get the main graph with TSS, Fatigue, Form and Fitness; the only thing I really want it for? I'm only turbo-ing at the minute, so it would be to import data into that'd been recorded through Zwift or Trainerroad, that means about £20-25/month...pretty steep for the sake of one chart.
And I'm a little worried by the thought that to benefit from tracking such things, it would need to know the details of all my activities right? So that means power for the commuting bike, summer road bike and winter road bike? And then it'd make sense to record the other metrics too, sleep, nutrition etc. I'm quickly envisaging a life like that of a lab rat. An impoverished lab rat that's spent every penny it has on power meters, integrated smart body composition scanners, fitness bands and nutriton tracking apps.