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Originally Posted by sshakari
I appreciate this post. I recently, last month got the same pedals. The most important lesson for me as you said to keep the power "engaged" on hills and flats. There have been many times I thought Im doing great and working hard, but once I look at the power numbers its easy to see that the opposite was true. Im still glad I go my pm pedals.

it’s a useful tool training to climb where you don’t have hills. As noted, climbing intrinsically requires you to put out a high level of power. It’s harder to keep that level up on flats. A power meter allows you to train on the flats maintaining the power needed to climb, where you might tend to slack without the reinforcement of the power meter. However,
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