Race Wheels in Lake Placid
I have Sram S80's but I want to have power info on race day. Race Day wheels does not rent an 808 with a "wired" PT. All their stuff is wireless. I am considering running the S80 in the front and using my disc cover on the PT wheel in the back. I am an experienced rider, finished LP in '06 and am set up (thanks to EN) to have a tremendous day this year. Just don't want to screw up the wheel selection. Thought? Thanks in advance for any input.
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Absolutely ride with the wheel cover so that you have Power on race day. In fact, If someone offered you a Sub 9 Zipp disc for free on race day, you should still ride with the disc cover and Power.
Having power on race day is essential to riding a smart race and racing to your potential.
Also, if Rich finds out you trained with power and didn't race with it, he will have an unpleasant present for you
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Good luck in Lake Placid!
Do you currently train with power? Or are you going to rent a wheel with power? From my reading it doesn't seem like you do but maybe you just weren't clear.
So if you currently train with power, no big deal. But if you don't train with power but want to race with power you will need to figure out what wattage to race at. My suggestion for this would be what I hear Jordan Rapp say. Warm up well. Then ride for 5' all out. All out. Whatever the average of that number is take 70-75% of that. That's your FTP. Now I would still be conservative and take 68% of that as your target watts for the race.
Of course if you currently train with power ignore the above. My only other suggestion if you are a power user is to have a fallback plan. Make sure you have some HR/PE levels in mind in case something happens to your PM. I speak from experience as my Powertap ran out of batteries at CDA a few weeks ago.
Best of luck in LP.