Unexpectedly low "wasted motion"
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 4:44 pm
On today's ride I did a couple of short hard sprints out of the saddle. I've been trying to improve my sprint technique, learning to tilt the bike left when I push down with the right pedal, ...
Coaches tell me that this technique is definitely faster than having a nice smooth balanced pedal stroke during a sprint ... but it seems to me that it should waste power. Maybe I don't understand what PowerStroke is doing.
At any rate this is a screen shot from the PowerStroke display when I selected one of the sprints from today's workout. The bike was rocking quite a bit from side to side but that's not how I interpret the PowerStroke image Is a 15 second sprint too short for PowerStroke to analyze?
Coaches tell me that this technique is definitely faster than having a nice smooth balanced pedal stroke during a sprint ... but it seems to me that it should waste power. Maybe I don't understand what PowerStroke is doing.
At any rate this is a screen shot from the PowerStroke display when I selected one of the sprints from today's workout. The bike was rocking quite a bit from side to side but that's not how I interpret the PowerStroke image Is a 15 second sprint too short for PowerStroke to analyze?