Originally Posted by
spectastic
it was a lot more like climb a hill for 4-5 minutes. z1 for a period of time. stand around waiting for others. rinse repeat. there were 2 sprints.
so basically, the garmin np is pretty much useless for anything that's not a tempo or threshold ride?
If you're using TSS (which is based on NP) and all, the garmin is right. Again, that's cyclingpeaks software.
Strava just uses things differently.
I have no idea why you'd have discrepancies with training peaks, but my Garmin and WKO4 are always exactly the same.
Of course, as mentioned, you can totally fake NP to crazy heights, which is a reason I think it's an archaic and broken method of tracking training stress, but it seems it's all we have at the moment and most are familiar with it.