I love buckets, but often wonder how much time do I need to spend at what wattage to fill each of my low/high/peak buckets. Or when doing efforts, how much of this is going to which bucket.
I was wondering if something like a page that displays XSSR per bucket at the current watts would be feasible and of interest to anyone. Idea would be to help you identify how hard/harder you need to go to fill each bucket.
We’ve thought about this and continue to think about it. Reading numbers on a display when you’re doing 500W+ isn’t feasible and this is where Peak XSS really kicks in. So something simpler to glance at and understand is preferable. Something like a background or border colour changing so you don’t need to read a number but can infer what’s happening by a colour or bar size. Haven’t yet thought of something that will be beneficial enough to invest our few resources in developing it yet.
I like your thinking… Note that these are future ideas, I don’t expect everything immediately.
I agree that ‘At a glance’ usability of this is key. Screen background colour sounds cool and great use of screen real estatte, but it’s be nice to know at what ratio XSS is being earned in which bucket at what power so this may need colour shading as at a given power, XSS may be going to more than one bucket… perhaps one of the bars could be coloured to the buckets you are currently contributing to a a given power. Like other tools use for power zones or power, eg:
Also need to be careful that the ‘buckets’ screen doesn’t become overcrowded with data… perhaps eventually there will be two buckets screens, one for current stats, and one for total/summary stats. This is how I have my normal garmin screens setup, a ‘current stats, eg. power, HR, cadence, etc’, then a Summary screen with KMs, TSS, etc, etc.
I think this is a great idea! Maybe not something one really needs for efforts near ‘peak’, but for low and high I think it would be super useful. Honestly, I’d like to just be able to find these numbers somewhere in Xert ‘before’ the ride. Watt ranges for each bucket (with associated XSSRs). Just being aware of these ranges will help ‘fill the buckets’ as needed.
I kinda asked a similar question and got this response, which I kind of understand Forecast AI Beta: How is it working? - #79 by xertedbrain
Ya that doesn’t really help me…
I agree, a bit over my head and not something I can implement when cycling… but someone was sharing info and trying to help
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