I’ve run TR for several years, and been through a lot of equipment. This morning I rode my Elite Drivo, paired with a Quarq DZero and ‘PowerMatch’ in the “Auto” setting. I did the Ericsson workout. Everything is ANT+ connected to TR on a Mac. Ericcson is just a simple SSB thing, really with some ILT and cadence drills.
Ericsson is supposed to be Sweet Spot work, which I expect will cross a bit into Threshold too. But when you look at my data from the ride this morning, I was nearly 16% in Threshold, and 6% into VO2 territory. The Drivo has never produced those artificially smooth graphs like a KICKR, and certainly my legs (via the Quarq) are nowhere a smooth as a KICKR graph… but WTF… should it be this lumpy?
Can I just say, enough of the “excuse my anaemic FTP” and other similar remarks etc. There are a lot of people on here that do not have FTPs anywhere near yours and are still working their asses off and don’t want to hear how “anaemic” their FTP may be.
I looked at the ericsson i did with powermatch between my stages and at that time a Kickr 18 ( i now have a tacx neo) and i have 15% at threshold and 4% at VO2 max so i guess this is pretty normal .