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What If I Acquire a PM in the Middle of Season?

morpheusmorpheus
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 I had a choice to make.  Purchase a PT and study up on how to use it...or...join EN.  I chose EN.  I felt that I still can improve going ol'skool Rocky IV and I can go Ivan Drago later.  I still stand by this decision.  However,  I'm getting a vibe around here...a vibe that says that says a PM may not be so impossible around holiday time.  Make a note...I have the most supportive wife in the tri'hood.  Don't want to abuse that, that's why I'm here with EN now.

Here's the question, tho.  I'm starting the Nov OS.  If I come up with a PM, either in Dec or Feb, how does that play into my plan?

 

Also, what's your take on the new Look/Polar Power Pedal, supposed to be released in Spring?

 

Thanks,

Chris

Comments

  • Kevin WalterKevin Walter
    Anytime you get a PM is good. You can definitely phase it in during the OS (probably the optimum time!)

    I think everyone is adopting a wait and see attitude with both of the pedal systems coming out.
  • Keith WickKeith Wick
    Definitely not a problem. What you'd do is continue to train with HR while paying attention to what happens to your watts as you train. You'll get used to how much they bounce around and try to make them more consistent and with less spiking over your intervals. At some point, usually every 8 weeks, we re-test our FTP to adjust our zones. When that next retest happens, you'll totally convert to power training and ignore your HR by doing the FTP test with power instead of the HR retest.
  • morpheusmorpheus
    Got it. First, I'll just get started in Nov, then address this if it becomes a reality. Now, since I've finished '10 and I have 4 weeks til the OS Plan, I gotta get started eating all these freakin' Pnut M&M's.
  • Nemo BrauchNemo Brauch
    Agree- won't be a problem at all. Hope Santa is nice to ya this year!
  • morpheusmorpheus
    is this KK 'Power' even worth considering? I know it could only be used in the cave.

    http://www.kurtkinetic.com/kinetic-wireless-power-computer-p-151-l-en.html
  • Nemo BrauchNemo Brauch
    Not worth it IMHO. It's not measuring actual Power. It's estimating Power by using speed and metrics based on "average" riders. Not at all the same thing as really riding/training with power. Save that $$ for a real PM
  • rah2774rah2774

    If you can get it, great... but if you don't, you'll be fine.  I don't currently have power - hope/plan to get it in the off season... but just had to buy a new bike... In any event, there are lots of us in da haus without power and we are improving like mad on the bike all the same... whenever you do get it, I think that as long as you set aside the time to learn it you'll be okay.  If you're in OS with it, you'll have plenty of time (from what I understand) to get it all dialed in by the time your race training comes up... and we test frequently enough that you'll be good on that front, too.

    FWIW I had contemplated getting power mid to late-ish season myself (as I started IM training), but decided the learning curve would be too high and I had enough to focus on with training for my first IM.  (shortly after making the call, I discovered a crack in my frame, so perhaps it was divine intervention I hadn't just dropped 3 grand.)

  • morpheusmorpheus

     advice heeded

  • morpheusmorpheus

     Thx, very encouraging to hear that you can/do see gains even without a PM.  I don't have any problem training on RPE/HR.  Only way I know how to do it.   I can give EN the work, no problem with hitting intervals.  But, the structure, the gameplan, that EN will provide is what I've never had before.  Very excited about that, and that's pre-PM!

    Thx for the feedback.

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