52 Week Review

Hi

I've been using power measuring equipment for just over a year now and I've collected all my data indoors with a CompuTrainer and outdoors with a PowerTap, I am happy that within reasonable limits the data I have is accurate. I reckon that for the kind of things I do my 20 min figures are a reasonable guide to progress or otherwise.

By way of trying to get an overview of where I am 12 months on I took all my data and looked at my 20 minute MMP information using a setting of 7 days per point. I then took this data and popped it into Excel and looked at this incorporating 2 trendlines, a linear trendline and a 4 week moving average trendline.

Both graphs are attached and I would be interested in any, preferably not too offensive, comments I have made some progress, that much is clear. However, it seems to me that my progress has been rather less than perhaps I'd hoped given that a lot of work has gone in, and I'd be interested to know whether those with more experience would see this as typical or otherwise.

Thank you.

PBUK

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If you didn't attempt a balls n all 20-min effort every week, then of course the data will be skewed downwards at times or cause the trendline to show an average of what you did, not what you are capable of.

Compare maximal and/or test efforts only, rather than what you did to see the improvement in fitness.

What you can do is insert the words "POWER TEST" or whatever you like in your WKO+ comments, then search for those files from the calendar using those key words and then use chalkboard to chart the data - it will use only the files from the days found by the search filter as data in the chart.

Here's an example of my MAP tests, comparing last season, my hiatus through injury and my recent tests. I set a 42 day sample period for this one as I was unlikely to do a MAP test any more regularly than that, although you can choose a narrower band of days, it just comes up with narrower bars, that all. Same data shown.



The other alternative is an MMP chart over wider time blocks (say 4-6 weeks) rather than 7 days as that might be more likely to show data from tests or races as data points.

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