I’m thinking of doing these races for the first time this evening but curious to know how Xert will treat them. I’m going to have to save them as 4 separate “workouts” as I run Zwift on Apple TV and my HR monitor won’t connect to the TV plus the Wahoo fan as well as my phone for Xert.
Will Xert take into account the accumulating fatigue/decrease in MPA in the short breaks between events, or treat them as entirely new workouts done from fresh?
I am in no way an xert expert but since nobody had replied, here is my experience. For me, the gap between races has always been enough for the MAP to recover fully. All races I ever done (except race 4, which is last anyway) were less than10 minutes and spaced 15 minutes apart. 5 minutes was enough for my MPA to recharge fully.
I thought xert does is not modelling fatigue into the single activity but the training load(s) will be the same, as far as I know, given the MPA’s full recovery (wait for for someone else to comment here).
Example tiny races:
Race 1:
Race 2:
Race 3: Not fully recovered but I had extra three minutes on the pen to recover
Race 4: Longer but it was the last one
If you want - you could consider exporting the 4 race files and using fitfiletools.com to join all of them into a singular file for analysis.
Or dual record…? Record a single file on your bike computer and use that in Xert for analysis… or if you are recording with Xert app (eg for real time MPA if you don’t have a garmin with those data fields), I think it’s possible to record as a single free ride (just turn gps off) or you can create a single workout and just not follow it?
Either way, if one is fully recovering (and including the recovery spinning in the file) then MPA, BT detection and loads are presumably all correct… difficulty score won’t be accurate, but it’s not strictly necessary. But if your MPA doesn’t return to maximum in between, your values for subsequent rides won’t be correct
