• What are you going to learn from it? That cross requires lots of short bursts of high power with micro recovery bursts in between? I can tell you that for free right now.

    Plus if you’re starting out in cross there are much better performance enhancing things to spend your money on.

  • Yeah, but if you already own one and it’s a quick job to swap between bikes then I don’t see any reason why not?

    Sorry for being a bit stalker-y Ed, but the thing I noticed from Strava was that your power seemed low. NP for 30 minutes of cross was a little over 230 when I’d have thought your ftp must be nearer 300? Is it normal for power metrics in cross to be far lower than othe disciplines, i’d have thought all the micro efforts would inflate Np?

    Obvious caveats about power meter calibration and Strava messing up data etc etc.

  • Is it normal for power metrics in cross to be far lower than othe disciplines

    Yes. Lots and lots of zeros.

    I ran one for a bit. It's pretty pointless to have it for races and you run the risk of breaking it. Obviously more so when it gets really wet / muddy.

    I found HR is pretty useful if you want to pace yourself.

  • NP according to training peaks 272, avg power 230, FTP is about 290 on my quarqs in road position, so NP wasn't a million miles off.

    look forward to racing again, when I can in November/December, and was a good recovery week bit of fun.

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