Accumulating time in zone (power) - what to shoot for
I was looking back through my event rides since I got a Powertap in the summer of '19 and noticing the time-in-zone distributions. When i do an event ride, I TT it, trying to get my ET as low as I can. Of course I ride some solo, some with others, moving in an out of groups as the ride goes on. I think my distribution is not unlike what one sees on a long race. On one particular ride, using the 5-zone model, my distribution in zones 1 through 5 was of the pattern 4-3-2.5-1-1.
I'm now far enough into my October-August schedule to see some accumulated time in zone. I wasn't consciously planning on it, but my accumulated times just happens look about like the above event distribution, which might be auspicious. .
Does anyone watch this and if so, what do you look/strive for if anything?
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