Brandon
From what I have seen strava power numbers are 15-25% off from true power numbers.
BM
On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:35 AM, "Russell @ Upper Echelon Fitness" wrote:
> Eric - The power numbers with the "lightning bolt" by them means they are true power numbers recorded with a meter. The others are just estimated power, which is why the data doesn't make sense. This works OK, not still not perfect, for steady climbs, but not very well for cross. Molly and Roger were the only two with meters on their cross bikes at Alpenrose, for example.
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> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:06 PM, eric aldinger wrote:
> It is interesting that the person generating the most watts does not have the highest heart rate (good training!), but also does not have the fastest lap time.
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> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Matthew Haughey wrote:
> I know a lot of people have said that OBRA should drop the hand
> scoring and try some chip timing, since we'd get the benefit of lap
> times with some systems but I just realized it's possible to get lap
> times currently from the website Strava.com.
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> If you use a Garmin GPS-enabled bike computer (305, 705, 500, 800,
> etc) and you upload your rides to Strava.com, chances are some other
> riders have also uploaded rides and used the "segment" tools to set up
> hill climbs and better yet, laps in your races.
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> Here's the Alpenrose race from last week's crusade race:
> http://app.strava.com/segments/779351
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> Here's yesterday's Heiser Farms race:
> http://app.strava.com/segments/786331
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> Here's a lap of Rainier shared from 2009-2011:
> http://app.strava.com/segments/628141
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> It's pretty cool and it's handy to see what your best effort was in a
> race and what the A and B racers are doing compared to the lower
> categories (somehow, they are shaving 2-3 minutes off every lap as if
> my magic).
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> I hadn't noticed this until last week but it's pretty cool and gives
> me some information I wasn't tracking before during races.
>
> Matt
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