I have a left crank power meter only. That looks like a normal outdoor ride to me.
The only way you “might” smooth things out better would be on a perfectly flat course with no traffic, stops, or dozens of other reasons to stop pedaling momentarily.
I also don’t see any issue with the analysis. You can clearly see the 6x5 efforts and a sprint. In other words a good training session that followed the suggested workout.
Outdoors workouts will never match indoor ones, but they don’t need to.
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My point exactly 
Plus, a lot can be improved by discipline, like concentrating on your pedal stroke and looking for/finding a stretch where you can complete your intervals without (much) interruption…
+1. completely normal. Just te same as on my Edge 1000.
Eric
Hi,
I’m new to xert, I did a xert workout outdoors yesterday and found the power was reading as a 5 second average power on xert remote player on my garmin.
Question is can this be changed to a 3 second average?
Attached is a zoomed in screen shot of an interval. As you can see it’s reading as a 5 second power average.
Hi Gavin,
Welcome to Xert! We don’t offer any configuration of the Xert Workout Player power smoothing. The workout player will display a 3s average (but records 1s data to the .fit file). Looks like you are using the old charting system, which displayed a 5s average. You can enable advanced charts under Account Settings > Personal Info > Enable Advanced Charts, which will show 1s power (as well as showing the MPA graph in beautiful colors)! Hope that helps!
Thanks Scott
Confirming it does display 3s power on display and enabling the advance chart system. I’m slowly getting my head around xert and I’m liking it so far.
Cheers Gav.
Hello:
Im also new to Xert and I only train outdoors, Im seeing that after Im done with my workout the file does not show speed or distance on Strava or Garmin.
Am i doing something wrong?
Thanks!
Luis
Hi, if you mean with Garmin, apologies if obvious but would check that GPS is on first? Not tried outdoors with mobile app
Hi Wesley:
Thanks for your reply, yes GPS is on and any other regular activity is recorded with speed and distance.
It’s only when I’m doing a Xert workout with Garmin that does not work.
Luis
Just to be clear, it’s also on inside the Xert garmin workout player, not just on your device in general? Once you start a workout you can access the SELECT menu by tapping the screen (or top right button maybe depending on device) and there you can see the gps setting
Do you use the ‘Xert Player’ on your Garmin device??
I’m talking about exclusively about using the Xert workout player on my Garmin 530, all this only outdoors as I don’t train indoors.
If I go for a regular ride without using the Xert player it records everything, if I do a Xert workout it does not record either distance or speed.
Thanks
Here is an example of two activities exactly one after the other, first Xert work out, no speed or distance.
Second regular activity with distance and speed, I did it just to make sure everything was working fine with my garmin unit.
Yes, I do and only workout outdoors
GPS needs to be on in two places
- your device in general (which you’ve shown it is)
- inside the Xert player, after you start a workout (fairly sure the default is OFF as more use it indoors, so would check that)
(You can check that inside or outside)
Wesley:
Thanks so much for your help, I just checked what you told me and gps was off on xert player, I will go out and try it and report back.
Regards
Luis
Worked perfectly! Thanks so much for all your help.
Luis
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There is an option under the Player Settings.
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If I remember correctly, I think before launching the app that you need to have a profile selected that has GPS enabled. If you have the INDOOR profile selected, then our app won’t be able to access GPS.
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