Hmm. If youāre hitting your highest power output of the race at the very end, then even making significant adjustments to your HIE wouldnāt help too much - itād be all used up by the final sprint anyways. Xert is adjusting TP since having a higher TP would allow your MPA to remain sufficiently high for the final high-power sprint.
Is your Peak Power accurate? An HIE of 30 kJ with a Peak Power of only ~850W would be very rather unusual. For reference my PP is ~1100 and I have an HIE of ~25 kJ.
True - my PP is maybe āstaleā as I havenāt done a perfect sprint for quite a while. At 59kg, 850W is maybe not that far from your 1100?
I understand the reason for the TP adjustment but not adding just a bit of HIE, seems odd. With only 7h/week and a TL below 70, it would be rather unlikely (?) to have a TP of 4,36 W/kg.
One thing I noticed is that despite having a perfect training week my TP had (prior to this BT) gone down by 1. I have normal decay, and could experiment with less decay for the TP area.
I donāt like changing TP too much, the current signature have after all brought me to a very competitive state. So Iāll raise my TP to 240, add 2 to my HIE and try to do an all out sprint to verify if I could hit 900 which I think is possible
You might try adjusting the TP, HIE and PP and the pressing Extract to get a new fitness signature. The MPA is now a flat line in your chat, which indicates that Xert was not able to extract the fitness signature.
Continuing the recovery from an extended period with reduced trainingā¦ gold BT from a dedicated 12 min effort. Seems generous to increase PP but maybe itās from the easy warm up sprints (which hardly moved the MPA needle)
On Sundays I typically do an easy 3h-group ride during winter. Normally just collecting base-miles and hanging on each others wheels in a large bunch.
After leaving the group and heading home I felt pretty good yesterday, so I decided to push for a breakthrough. This is the ride: Xert - Activity | Tough Polar Rouleur Ride. The Garmin CIQ-field on my Edge 530 reported a breakthrough already at 2:34h, but obviously it wasnāt even so close. Luckily I pushed over the following road bridge and got the breakthrough at 2:40h.
Is there any way to tweak the CIQ-field to be more reliable? It would have been really frustrating if I would have decided to easen up already after the first effort.
The Connect IQ fields cannot duplicate the second by second analysis of the XO server.
Itās not a reliability issue so much as precision based.
The best policy with the BT alert on the app is to keep going if you have anything left in the tank or go again like you did.
Itās possible you had two BTs (or Near BT) during that ride. Use the Previous button under the chart to confirm. The routine will adjust your signature accordingly to show only one instance.
Training done on a slight uphill, it was supposed to be a ladder down, but somehow it went well despite the heavy last week. Not much was missing to gold, but Iāve only been running with Xert for 5 weeks and Iāve already had 4 bronzes.
Pretty funny. Zwift Ramp test gives me a FTP of 244. However Xert is much closer, with TP 226 pre test so pretty much where Xert expected me to be with the breakthrough putting me at 227w.
Intervals.ICU detetected eFTP at 228w.
Couldāve done a hardness test instead but was just curious to see the difference between a classic ramp test algorithm (like Zwift) and Xert. Anyway. Pretty much confirms after almost 2 months of Xert iām pretty much where I was forecasted to be.
Been on a taper and now maintenance after last event in October so knew decay meant my numbers would be offā¦
Got a good lead in to a short Strava segment on a short climb thatās just perfect to punch up and sent itā¦looked down and saw the breakthrough on the head unit but was very surprised to get home and see this
I know I should probably flag it as Iāve never had a FTP much north of 240 let alone an LTP thatās nudging it but Iāll probably just let decay etc correct it in time as Iām not actively training just cruising with mates on the weekends.
Could take a while to correct such a large error so if it were me Iād flag it for sure. It looks like the BT was from a sprint while the increase is to TP which is odd (I.e rather than PP which is what Iād expect). Even if you are not following structured workouts, your signature is used to track strain in the 3 components so probably best to have them accurate / meaningfulā¦
In the last Saturday, I had a light LT run. In the last 20 seconds of the final minute, I decided to push myself to the maximum, and there you go. You could say it was like a silver breakthrough and a half
Already seemed like my TP was set too high before this one. Those endurance workouts on the trainer are going to be evil now. I really need to figure out how to get in some max power short sprints to correct my signature.
signature was going stale so I did the hardness test. Surprisingly I reached a new sprinting best, while Iām in base for a goal (Amstel Gold Race 150km in april). Also, the last block of above treshold (290w for smart duration) I had a lot left at the end. Which gives me the inkling feeling my treshold power is more than what it is now (228w after breakthrough).
First time trying to do max sprints on the trainer in slope mode. Need to repeat with clipless pedals as Iām 100% sure I have at least 50 W more than i got here. Still generated a Breakthrough.
