Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

I think it's one of those things where if you've not trained with power it's difficult to see how useful it could be, but once you've done it for a while you won't want to go back.

I think a certain kind of nerd can get sucked into a self-reflexive obsession with numbers which have no meaning outside his own little world. Who cares if you're making more Watts* than me if you still finish behind me in a race?

*or higher percentage of HRmax, or higher VO2max, or more W/kg, or lower CdA, or whatever new metric people come up with next year. Throughout the history of training snake-oil salemanship, the "need" to measure something always seems to follow the invention of a device to measure it; a case of invention being the mother of necessity :-)