Originally Posted by spectastic

i also noticed that when i'm doing an interval, the lap average power is higher than the lap normalized power. that's impossible. that's another red flag for my garmin's np readout.

when i keep on going though, and the average power comes back down, the normalized power stays up. I noticed that even I coast for an extended period of time, and the average power absolutely tanks, the np stays up.. now I really want to know how that number is calculated..


when doing ftp tests and intervals, is the average power more useful than np?