EN's Power Zones

Wendy Watson

The bike power zone calculator has gaps in it ( ex 75-80% and 85-95%). 

Other power zone calculators that I have seen have continuous zones.

Just curious why the EN calculator is set up this way.  I have a bit of a "no-man's land" between zones 3 and 4.

Thanks!!!

Wendy

 

Coach Rich

Posted By Wendy Watson on 09 Jan 2014 11:12 AM

The bike power zone calculator has gaps in it ( ex 75-80% and 85-95%). 

Other power zone calculators that I have seen have continuous zones.

Just curious why the EN calculator is set up this way.  I have a bit of a "no-man's land" between zones 3 and 4.

Thanks!!!

Wendy

 

Hi Wendy,

That's because our zones are not there zones . More specifically, our zones "mean something," in that these are also zones that you'll find yourself racing in:

• 70-75%/Z2/Steady is commonly IM pace
• 80-85%/Z3/ModHard = HIM pace
• 95-100%/Z4/Hard = short course pace. 

Don't worry about the gaps, just use our zones.

FYI, I'm changing the title of the thread and moving it to Power and Pace where you'll get more feedback from the members. 

John Withrow

@Wendy-- Welcome to the team! This might be an interesting thread for you to read... http://members.endurancenation.us/Forums/tabid/57/aft/10477/Default.aspx#130037

Wendy Watson

Thanks John!!
Very helpful.
My second day as a member and I loving all the info.
Plus, I can relate to the "smaller woman doing 150 watts " comment. :-)

tookermw

I agree with Coach Rich on the zones and where we should be training. My question is for those of us that use Training Peaks (and other programs probably fall into this as well), how should we set up the zones so that a whole ride gets accounted for in the summary of time accumulate in each zone. The way I have it setup now is to find the midpoint between the top of a zone and the bottom of the next zone and use that has my Training Peaks zone parameters.

What does everyone else do?