chicken and egg wrote:
heyyo wrote:
I like it in theory for the run stress score data. It’s a nice way of translating distances run at various paces into one overall workload measure. It’s useful for seeing how big and workout or week was beyond the miles run.
The uphill power data is interesting too. It gives me a sense of how I’m improving throughout the course of my hill rep sessions. If I lived near a long hill (3+ miles) it would be cool to do uphill tempos by power.
Run form is cool too. Basically shoes how youre efficiency is changes throughout a race.
I don’t really get why one would train by power though. Basically they have do some 10 minute time trial and then you derive your power paces from that. I don’t see how that’s any different than racing a 3k or 5k and then using McMillan or Daniels to derive your training paces.
You've got a problem there. You need your critical power to get your stress score, but you're unwilling to get your critical power.
I don’t quite think that’s a chicken or egg problem. It’s a you need to do A to get B so you can have C. Either way I’m not sure your point. I raced a 5k and that gave me my CP. Given the measurement error of the device I can’t imagine the 10 min cp test is any more accurate than racing an indoor 5k.