Best analytical software to get the best from a power meter?

daniel_b
daniel_b Posts: 11,985
Morning all,

so I have some shiny new, and hopefully reliable (Some of the threads on the garmin forum scare me I must be honest) Garmin Vector 2's fitted on my bike - yet to go out on them though.

I'm currently using a 500, though have asked for a 1000 for my birthday, so not sure if that will appear at the end of the month or not, but I had best assume not!

Having invested what I deem to be a large amount of cash on these, I want to make sure I get the best out of them, partly the reason for asking for a 1000 (Aside from the fact my 500 has started dropping satellites without telling me in the past few weeks) and also why I want to figure out how to use the data properly.

I am going to start time trialling soon, and want to try my hand at finishing at the back of the field in some races next year!

So anyway, I currently use Strava and Garmin connect, oh and also Training Centre for my data, but am aware there is some other good programs out there, so wondered if anyone on here could recommend one that they use for analysing their data.

I have heard of both Golden Cheetah and Sporttracks - the first one being free I think?

And finally (for the moment) what fields do people tend to display on their device, ie what do you find most useful whilst on a ride.
Some of the options I see are 3s, 10s, 30s power, power average, power, Power TSS, and then there are the normalized power display options.

i have bought two books on training with power, but have yet to complete them, so that may well give me the asnwer, but thought there was no harm to ask on here for actual experience.

Cheers

Dan
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