Is there a first timer team?

Finished Downward Spiral without too much trouble. I think things are going well for me. I’ve only been back on the bike for 3 1/2 years after 20 off. I’m not very strong, but I’m working on it!
I’m happy with my suffering capacity and stubbornness. The strength is just sooo slow to get back. I will prevail, however!!!

I hope everyone else is having a good Tour as well!

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Awesome. Glad it’s going well. I do DS tomorrow.

Doesn’t matter if you’re strong: it’s all about putting yourself out there and suffering. If you’ve got that down, you’re strong where it counts and the rest will come when it does.

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Doing the Get Me Through It level again this year. I noticed that The Model has a reduced FTP but MAP is at 100%. I wonder if this is correct?

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If you finish and can stand then yes, it is correct. Good luck. :wink:

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I noticed that as well even though my plan is to do that ride 100%.
The focused option has it at 100.

My rider type is Pursuiter, I remember reading somewhere that the reductions are partially based on rider type.

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I’m planning on doing Focussed, but I could imagine that reducing FTP will make the recovery sections feel more like recovery–especially early on. That will probably make a big difference in how the workout feels. At least from the profile, the brutality of Model is in the fact that the recovery intervals start out so close to threshhold.

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I will find out in a few hours, my plan is to do it 100%.

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Downward Spiral: DONE. When I get over my cold (and don’t have The Model the day after), I’ll try it at 100% (I did Focussed with MAP at 90%).

After experiencing the wrong kind of suffering knee pain at the end of Stage two, I made some adjustments to cleat position (I have new cleats) and saddle fore/aft. Made a huge difference. No knee issues, although I’ll need to do another grinder to really know if I’ve solved the problem.

Also, I tried out my new Garmin Rally pedals to compare SYSTM power to pedal power. As expected, pedal power is about 10% higher. I was hoping to learn more about my pedal stroke with Garmin’s Cycling Dynamics data, but I connected the pedals to my headunit the wrong way (BTE instead of Ant+) so didn’t get the data. I’ll get that tomorrow.

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I tried single-sided Rally pedals back in early December, and the readings were surprisingly close to the KICKR - within 2%.

Hmm. I have the double sided. I wonder why mine are 10% higher and yours are about even. Maybe I need to clean my drivetrain again. I’d expect some power loss through the drivetrain and 10% didn’t shock me, but the variation is odd.

Well, hopefully my left leg is not 20% weaker (or stronger!) than my right one!
I did try to pedal very evenly during my test. The single-sided was the SPD shoe model, and is destined for my gravel bike. I’m still waiting for the dual-sided SPD-SL version destined for my road bike (ordered back in March, but distribution woes are impacting this - first world problems…)

Rob

Hadn’t thought of that. After I set up my pedals right tomorrow, I’ll share my left/right balance. It seems plausible that some of difference could be due to your left leg being weaker, but I have no idea. I also don’t know what the normal range of left/right balance is.

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A 1 to 5% difference (i.e. up to 45%/55%) is considered relatively normal. But it’s something that can be worked on.

Rob

Let us know how it goes. I have Garmin dual Rally XC200 pedals on one of my bicycles. I would be interested to see how the pedals compare to SYSTM power. I have never used the Garmin Cycling Dynamics.

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Curious how people have been getting along with the Garmin Rally’s and SYSTM. I also have the Rally XC200’s. Mine were definitely reading high in SYSTM and I couldn’t find an option to calibrate them within the SYSTM software.

I ended up loading up TrainerRoad and they have a calibrate option. I did this and then the watts felt accurate during a short ride in TR.

Anyone have any suggestions for calibration when using SYSTM?

you may want to create a new topic in the Equipment category Equipment - SYSTM Forum @Kuttermax. Putting your question in this old thread might not get you the traction you are looking for about your pedals.