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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Minneapolis
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These explanations help, but I'm still not sure my interval workouts would benefit from a smart trainer.
To do an interval session now, I simply decide that my goal is, say, 3 sets of 5 X 1 minutes at 350 watts. I don't have to program anything, I just watch my power during the intervals and adjust my effort. If during the last interval I can't maintain 350 watts, I do what I can - 340 or 330 or....
In truth, I don't even need zwift for this, but watching the scenery go by is a nice distraction and zwift, transferred to Strava, easily produces a nice record of what I've done that I can go back and examine.