G'day, I'm migrating from a Polar based power set-up to a PowerTap SL+ and Garmin 705. Unfortunately I've always felt the Polar got a really bad rap (typically by those who had never used it) and after some years I can honestly say I was pretty happy with the whole system. The reason I changed to PT/Garmin was because I now swap bikes quite a bit, I travel a lot and liked the GPS function, and I'm interested in sprint/short-term power measurement.
The latter is the reason for the post/question. Today was the first time I used the new system and sadly it was pouring with rain ... and I mean POURING! A really crappy ride so I just went out for an hour before it all became a bit silly out on Sydney's roads. On the way home however I decided to open my legs up a bit and was surprised to record a max power of around 1100W which settled down to around 8-900W for the effort. I say I'm surprised as it wasn't really what I'd call any sort of "sprint" just "revved the engine" a wee bit. The Polar samples only every 5 seconds and is accurate to only 1000W anyway so data like that I would just manually delete.
Pretty soon I start incorporating more intensity in my training and wonder how accurate shorter-term efforts are on the PT? While I sure as heck aren't looking at a display when sprint training, it would be nice to track the data and know whether it's accurate or not over a period of time (ie increasing or ... not )?
Pete
The latter is the reason for the post/question. Today was the first time I used the new system and sadly it was pouring with rain ... and I mean POURING! A really crappy ride so I just went out for an hour before it all became a bit silly out on Sydney's roads. On the way home however I decided to open my legs up a bit and was surprised to record a max power of around 1100W which settled down to around 8-900W for the effort. I say I'm surprised as it wasn't really what I'd call any sort of "sprint" just "revved the engine" a wee bit. The Polar samples only every 5 seconds and is accurate to only 1000W anyway so data like that I would just manually delete.
Pretty soon I start incorporating more intensity in my training and wonder how accurate shorter-term efforts are on the PT? While I sure as heck aren't looking at a display when sprint training, it would be nice to track the data and know whether it's accurate or not over a period of time (ie increasing or ... not )?
Pete