It's a long, fat, road.

Time to get on the austerity diet. Three days of excessive food and drink were great, but now it's time to burn some of those excess calories.

I'm going to get at least one swim in lane 5 this week ...

Power hassles

So it turns out that my vintage Powertap CPU is, in fact, not compatible with the current generation of USB cradles. Some wrangling with Saris later, I'm having a yellow CPU shipped which is, the customer service rep swears up and down, compatible with both my existing Powertap Classic hub, and the USB cradle I purchased.

The current CPU works just fine, now that I've figured out interval mode ... did my LTHR testing on it last week, 238W/242W for 2x20' intervals, which puts a rough estimate at 230W (woo, just north of 3.0 W/kg). Of course, this is mildly inaccurate, but  close enough to train on for now.

POWER!

Top Gear reference.

First trainer ride with power this morning. Not, however, the first ride with power *and* a USB cradle to download the results to.

Sooo... guessing watts today during my 2x15 were around 210. Hard to tell, that might be optimistic.