AeroPod, PowerPod and Newton

Hi All,

I just got my Ibike Pro calibrated and took it out to our local climb. I'm 49 and weighed 265 about 7 years ago when I started cycling. Now at 210, completely addicted to cycling, I've done quite a bit of touring, quite a few centuries and am heading to the French Alps this summer. I also hope to do the Markleeville Deathride someday. Anyhow I'm wanting to increase my climbing skill (I know, lose more weight!), but I was hoping some of you might have some general comments or pointers about this power file. Specifically anything that seems like good info I should be gathering from looking at it. We climbed the first little hill a bit hard, but the main hill we just spun up. I did sprint against my buddy at the top of the mountain, thus the power spike, and I chased a car downhill (not closely, but I didn't let him get out of sight), thus the power spikes coming out of every turn downhill. Anyhow, any comments or insights would be appreciated....

Gary

At first glance it looks to me as if your cda might be a little low.
If you look in My Documents ->iBike rides folder -> calibration rides you should see an ibcd4m file. If you send that to me I can take a look at it.

I have made a makeshift profile that might work a little bit better for you in the meantime. You can save this to your desktop, go to profiles->edit profiles in the software. Then hit the import button and search for this file.

Afterwards if you want you can hit tools-> switch profile after the ride to look at the data with this profile. The main thing that will change is your watts on the flats and downhills will be higher

Thanks! I found that switching profiles lowered wattage over all, but I think it was the change in Crr that caused that. We have pretty rough roads in this area so I'm not sure. I think I need to redo the coastdowns and calibration ride to make sure things are kosher, but here's my original file.