Power Meters / Powermeters (SRM, Powertap, Quarq, Ergomo, Vector, Stages, power2max, P2M, 4iii, InPower, Cinch)

Standard guidance is to increase CTL by no more than five points in a week. That would require a bit more than that over 3 weeks after an 18 point rise in one week - seems ambitious.

Neil hasn't been recording all his rides though so his CTL is a bit ambiguous.

And personally I'd not worry about tracing a certain CTL but increase training load in a directive manor dependant upon your goal and then back off 8 days before for 5 days then ride a bit in the 3 days into the event.

Back off does not mean do nothing. Ride a bit does not mean ride shit loads!! :)

Ambiguous is pretty accurate- I used a Powercal for all of last week as we were on hire bikes, also.

I'd ignore CTL and just up your training for overload until 8 or so days before. Then taper a bit then ride.
Thought if last week was really hard I'd easy for a few days then get back on it before pushing on.

Your CTL is wrong so no point listening to it.

Powertap + Garmin 705: auto zero on or off?

Always off IMO.

Why?

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If you perform the auto-zero then you know that the conditions were perfect- no force being applied to the pedals and so on.

If the Garmin decides to do it when it feels like it then you could be soft-pedalling rather than coasting- and therefore the zero-offset would be wrong, and FUBAR your whole power file- just as was happening to me with mine.

Missed one again. Need to learn to eBay snipe.
(this time I was on the turbo).

TT forum is your friend

Henry- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Power2max-Power-meter-for-Sram-GXP-130bcd-quarq-elsa-features-/221436359481?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item338ea2b339

The auto zero on a P2M cant be turned off. At least I'm pretty sure thats what DC Rainmaker said. Or should I be trying to do this?

My Garmin is being a tit right now (took 15 mins to upload a run last night). So I dont really want to mess With it. Cant afford for it to die right now. No matter how much I want a Fenix2.

No it cannot- the P2M works slightly differently to other PM's in that IT does the auto-zero, then sends a "correct" power signal to the head unit.

The new track P2M has this disabled so you can trigger it yourself- that was the one big obstacle to using a P2M on the track. Just after I bought a fucking Powertap.

SF - have you tried deleting your ride history and un used routes from your Garmin? They get reeaaaallly slow when they get full.

SF - have you tried deleting your ride history and un used routes from your Garmin? They get reeaaaallly slow when they get full.

Do this - makes a vast difference in upload speed

SF - have you tried deleting your ride history and un used routes from your Garmin? They get reeaaaallly slow when they get full.

Tend to do this every couple of rides/runs. I have all my data on GarminConnect, and TrainingPeaks (and a lot on Strava). So I dont need to keep the unit full. I recieved an email saying that I was being moved to the new garmin Connect site. Cant see how that could effect Things.

I did spend 10mins With the dongle inserted into the internet socket (Mrs Smallfurry had removed it and put it back wrong). So I was pretty annoyed already. But 15+mins to upload one run from a 910xt With maybe 4 activities on it is wrong.

Never use GC - pisses me off. Plan rides on ridewithgps and use Strava (and now TP) for data upload.

Are there benefits to GC I am missing out on?

Not that I can see- it's annoyingly shite.

However, with the 910xt you have to download to Garmin first, that changes the file for your recent activity to one that can then be read by other services- for me that means Device Agent and Strava.

No download to GC, no file for services you actually want to use.

Never use GC - pisses me off. Plan rides on ridewithgps and use Strava (and now TP) for data upload.

Are there benefits to GC I am missing out on?

Nope.
I havent looked at mine for a year.
Just recieved an E-mail. Training Peaks is the one I get on best With.

Not that I can see- it's annoyingly shite.

However, with the 910xt you have to download to Garmin first, that changes the file for your recent activity to one that can then be read by other services- for me that means Device Agent and Strava.

No download to GC, no file for services you actually want to use.

I dont mind this so much. It all gets chucked into a folder. You turn off the watch and pack safely away. The Device Agent and Strava upload from my Laptop calling the location 910xt.

Means I just transfer every couple of days, delete from Device, and then upload to TP, strava etc. when I have time to look through it. And without having to dig out the watch.

Are there benefits to GC I am missing out on?

Swim data (if you swim with 910xt?) I've only started swimming again recently so only tried uploading 2 swim workouts but TP Strava and Golden Cheetah all struggle to display the data. Garmin Connect works fine for the swim stuff even though the site is shit in general.

I dont mind this so much. It all gets chucked into a folder. You turn off the watch and pack safely away. The Device Agent and Strava upload from my Laptop calling the location 910xt.

Means I just transfer every couple of days, delete from Device, and then upload to TP, strava etc. when I have time to look through it. And without having to dig out the watch.

Hmm, how do I get ANTagent to save the file locally?

That would be handy.

Hmm, how do I get ANTagent to save the file locally?

That would be handy.

Mine just does. I Guess I may have set it up that way without thinking much about it. I tend to just punch the keyboard till stuff Works, then hate myself when issues Crop up later, and I'm left clueless.

I transfer to Strava With the 910xt turned off and packed away. Ditto Device agent. I can access the folder without internet connection so it must be local. I just assumed this was the standard mode of operation.

Swim data.... I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that :)

Spent half an hour this morning trying to get my Garmin 500 to connect with my power2max and gave up in the end. The power2max seemed to be doing it's part of the bargain, so I've just updated the firmware on the Garmin and the bastard thing connected within about 2 seconds. Thanks Garmin.