Indoor vs Outdoor 20 min power tests

GiantMike
GiantMike Posts: 3,139
edited March 2013 in Training, fitness and health
In case anybody is interested, HERE is a comparison between 2 20 minute power tests I recently completed.

Headlines: 335W indoors, 340W outdoors (but some minor issues with traffic lights).

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  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    Presumably there was a big drop in temperature when you set off so I'd be a little unsure of those numbers for the 20min outdoor test. Whether that'd mean your PowerTap (possibly) under-read or over-read I don't know. I guess you stopped pedalling at the traffic lights though so I you might have got an auto-zero or two.
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  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    amaferanga wrote:
    Presumably there was a big drop in temperature when you set off....

    The PT was in the boot of my car all day so it was close to outdoor ambient temperature. I did have a couple of coasts, but not many.

    It was only after, when I thought about the 2 sessions, I realised how many differences there are between an indoor and an outdoor session.
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    In that case ignore my post.

    But yeah, a warm-up might have helped.
    More problems but still living....

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