My Time Trial season (at least the a races) is now done. Went really well btw. I used my Power Tap to pace my TT efforts. Look at HR occasionally, look at speed and use the wattage to make sure I am not going too hard and not fluffing off on the easy sections.
But one thing I noticed early on is when you pace with power your constantly letting up or pushing harder on the pedals to stay in the proper zone (i.e. ftp or % of ftp). So these constant micro-accelerations I call them I think lead to much, much greater fatigue in the legs. I have definately been faster on the out leg than in leg in every event, but I dont think everytime it was due to going too hard on the out leg (though once it was). Not 100% anyways and of course wind, rolling terrain, etc has played a part.
With some short "fun" 10 mile and uphill TT's starting up in two weeks I am thinking of taping over my wattage and going on PE, speed and HR. Then assesing afterwards if I put it on my ftp or not.
Anyone experience this or have any ideas?
In the end I hope to see if I have done enough training and racing to go it faster on PE than a hard number. There are other benefits like being able to use lighter wheelset for TT's (and a true disc wheel-not hvy covers).
But one thing I noticed early on is when you pace with power your constantly letting up or pushing harder on the pedals to stay in the proper zone (i.e. ftp or % of ftp). So these constant micro-accelerations I call them I think lead to much, much greater fatigue in the legs. I have definately been faster on the out leg than in leg in every event, but I dont think everytime it was due to going too hard on the out leg (though once it was). Not 100% anyways and of course wind, rolling terrain, etc has played a part.
With some short "fun" 10 mile and uphill TT's starting up in two weeks I am thinking of taping over my wattage and going on PE, speed and HR. Then assesing afterwards if I put it on my ftp or not.
Anyone experience this or have any ideas?
In the end I hope to see if I have done enough training and racing to go it faster on PE than a hard number. There are other benefits like being able to use lighter wheelset for TT's (and a true disc wheel-not hvy covers).