As one becomes more and more aware of their personal training strengths and weaknesses, one of the best gauges of progression is power. Monitoring average power of the course of a ride is key and enjoyable. However, on routes that allow the super tuck, that impacts your average power of the course of the route… in fact, any time you stop peddling, it has an impact on your average power statistics.
I would like to request at least an option to see what your “weighted power” is, or some sort of filter that allows us to see what our true power average is over the course of a route, not including the time spent either super tucking or not peddling.
As a bonus, it would be nice to be able to see our average power at all times in the companion app… and even better still, on screen.
Is what you are looking for similar to Normalized Power which Zwift computes? Not exactly the same, but to some extent that is the intent of Normalized Power.
@Mark_Gallagher I upload all rides to Garmin and I don’t see a “weighted power”. I see Average Power (which is the same number Zwift shows for average power, I don’t know if it includes the 0 watts time or not), Max power, Max average power (20 min), Normalized Power. Which of these are you thinking is some form of a weighted power?
It’s great training peddling downhill, but super tuck and freewheeling is also a big part of riding strategy … on the real road, you use these to your advantage.
Yeah, but if you’re riding for you and no one else, the numbers all make sense within your personal profile. It’s the same as when you sprint and your watts spike up to 1000 … that affects your “average power” … so having a way to filter out both super tuck and sprints (closer to normalized power) is what I’d like to be able to see in Zwift.