What time frame are y’all looking at for PDC / mFTP?
Noticed earlier that my last week mFTP is much higher (331 vs 316) than my current year mFTP.
From Cusick’s videos, sounds like you should retest every 30-90 days, so it’s that also the time frame to evaluate the PDC for?
Side Q: Can I make charts depend on each other? I’d love to use the gearing chart (bar chart of rear gear on the workout view) as selector for a power and cadence distribution chart of when I was in that gear. I’ve done this manually now, where I just hard code the gear I want to look at, but obviously fun to optimize thanks!
Is Black Friday/Cyber Monday the only time they have a discount? I’d like to buy the software and don’t want to wait until then, thinking I may just bite the bullet and pay the full price.
I believe that mFTP in the upper right hand corner is the 90 day. The mFTP line on the Power Duration Model chart will change as you change the time range.
I test with the Kolie Moore baseline test, look at the results, then usually go with the mFTP. I’ll set my FTP to that until the next test.
I just did a VO2 mini block and got a 9 watt mFTP bump but I won’t fiddle with my FTP until the next test.
Does anyone know how to create a smart segment using the combination of two laps?
There is a local climb that has multiple segments - bottom, top, total climb - depending upon how you ride it. I did it this past weekend, and I used the lap button for both the bottom part and top part. I created smart segments for both of those. Now I’d like to create the smart segment for the full climb, and I cannot figure out how to do that
I’ve only thought of doing it from a time range, seemed pretty simply to me. Strava doesn’t let you combine segments, neither does WKO. Having created many private segments in Strava, I find WKO to be easier.
I wish I could more easily create smart segments by:
grouping two or more laps - highlight all of the laps, and then just be able to click “create segments” from laps X, X+1, etc.
selecting the start and end points on the map. I’ve tried this, and it is really cumbersome. I should be able to view the map, click a point, user the cursors to fine tune the point, and then click “set segment start”. And then do the same to “set segment end”. And then just create segment.
sure, software is so malleable it is easy to imagine a lot of new features. The reason I’ve only thought of doing it from a time range is because that’s the only thing that works I’ve been in product marketing/management and can dream up all kinds of improvements… Then there is my non-techie wife, she wants every Windows and iOS app to do things the way she thinks it should be done. Which makes her hold most app developers in contempt, because they don’t think like she does, and it seems to generate a lot of daily frustration. My lot in life is remembering at least one way of doing things, even though I haven’t used Windows in 10 years, so that I can reduce her frustration and keep her blood pressure in check
As part of ‘getting serious’ again about training, finally took the plunge and upgraded from WKO 3.0+ to WKO5.
Good News: Managed to install it on the Mac, download from the Garmin and look at some workouts.
Bad News: Am staring down the rabbit hole of learning how to use the program. I was decent with 3.0+ but that’s like saying I could write some code in BASIC in the 1980s - LOL
I know about the WKO Education series on You Tube and will start watching. Any other reference guides that are written (not videos or pod’s) that I should start with?
Happy to help and I’ve been giving live/video orientations to engineers for 30 years. So much easier to get started when you see someone demo and can ask questions.
what beginner questions do you and @enki42 and @DarthShivious have? When I do this at work, step 1 is to put on my new user hat and install the software the first time, and then mentally put myself into the “what the hell is this and how do I navigate and find stuff” frame of reference. And ask new users for their initial impressions and questions. And then come up with a script. Then deliver some one-on-one sessions and refine the script. All of which represents a pretty big time investment, and more importantly, I’ve hacked my WKO5 so much it doesn’t look like it does on first install.
thanks!
I’ve been in product marketing/management and can dream up all kinds of improvements… Then there is my non-techie wife, she wants every Windows and iOS app to do things the way she thinks it should be done. Which makes her hold most app developers in contempt, because they don’t think like she does, and it seems to generate a lot of daily frustration. My lot in life is remembering at least one way of doing things, even though I haven’t used Windows in 10 years, so that I can reduce her frustration and keep her blood pressure in check 
