Two Wheel Blogs

I was catching up on my reading over on the wattage list last evening. Yes, even though I don't post as much as I used to there I still keep up with the reading. I saw a reference to the Mean Maximal Power chart in one of the threads. The idea offered up was a variation on the default time periods WKO+ offers for that chart. I smile to myself because it's a little trick I'd been doing since the new version first shipped.

The chart lets you plot two different time periods on the same graph. When I first saw this I immediately cloned it a bunch of times. I wanted to see how my MMP chart for this season compared to last season, this season to all other seasons, this month to this season, this week to this month... you get the idea.

The one I really like and refer to whenever I have a decent workout, is the chart that shows me whether the workout or race or whatever I did today set any new records. Achieving even one new personal best is always highly motivating.

This is my zoomed in version of the data from yesterday's chart. I copied the raw data straight out of CyclingPeaks and pasted it into my spreadsheet. I then did a little math on the individual values to make it show me the percentage difference between my 1-3 minute all time bests and yesterday's 1-3 minute Mean Maximal Power.