MyWhoosh vs Zwift

[cyberknight]

For those who have moved from zwift you can import your stats ,heck you could even import Strava but I think 75,000 miles is a bit of an ask 😁

 

[Milzy]

TPV is good for Spiral of Death - it releases erg and re-engages when you return to target power.

That’s nice but the power must be set too high for your actual true zones or you’re too fatigued to be on that current workout. Only ever had it once on suffer fest which was hard enough even when you weren’t been over ambitious.

 

[ColinJ]

TPV is good for Spiral of Death - it releases erg and re-engages when you return to target power.

That's good.

I have a feeling that I will end up with a TP subscription, but I will give MyWhoosh and Zwift a good test first.

That’s nice but the power must be set too high for your actual true zones or you’re too fatigued to be on that current workout. Only ever had it once on suffer fest which was hard enough even when you weren’t been over ambitious.

I had definitely overestimated what I could do on the trainer yesterday!

I usually do about 500 W on one of the very short road ramps that I was trying to simulate so I thought that 15 seconds at 500 W would be okay on the turbo.

What really got to my legs was the abrupt transition from 150 W to 500 W. What I do IRL is to sprint up to 500 W over 100 m or so, reaching full power at the base of the ramp, and then try to hold it all the way up and onto the flat road above. I will replicate that ramp up when I edit the workout.

The next problem for me was putting 2 of those efforts in only 45 seconds apart. I will try increasing the separation by at least a minute to give myself more recovery time.

I'll leave the power levels alone and just start off with workout difficulty set to 80% next time. Once I can get through one of those sessions without failure I will set my target to 85% for the next one. Rinse and repeat: 90%, 95%, 100%, 105%... (?!!).

We have sunny spells here today so I will be hitting the roads rather than the turbo.