Average power and normalized power
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Check out GCN. They do a nice job of breaking it down.
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In Excel, you'd calculate average power as avg(all your power data points from the ride).
Normalized power is similar but weights the points differently to approximate how much they "cost" your body. Bigger numbers are found here.
Normalized power is similar but weights the points differently to approximate how much they "cost" your body. Bigger numbers are found here.
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In general NP is a better metric. It's much harder to ride at 400w for 5' then coast for 5' then it is to ride at 200w for 10', even though the work over the duration (and thus AP) is the same.
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