Welcome to the podcast that's dedicated to making a faster cyclist the Ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

I'm coach Jonathan Lee and here with me as usual is coach Chad Timmerman

Hey everybody and CEO of trainer road Nate Pearson. Hello

And we're gonna give you more answers to more of your coaching questions today

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We've got a bunch of questions to get through so we're gonna kick it off this this time with Mike's question

He says guys great podcast been using trainer over about seven months and got through my Ironman distance race with the

Direct help from Nathan Chad so good stuff good to hear good job you to for helping him out

He says I don't have a smart trainer. I use a Kurt kinetic robe machine and virtual power

When I'm doing any intervals it's hard for me to maintain perfect on target power

There's some fluctuation so his first question is it safe to assume that's normal

Yeah, that's totally normal people aren't machine so

When we it's kind of cool. We just did a test

Chad did it about a few a few days ago and we had a Kirk kinetic robe machine hooked up with an in-ride one an in-ride two a

power tap P1 pedals and a power two max and we're just testing the accuracy of all those power meters along with virtual power and

It's crazy you if you see the raw data the P1

pedals

It's very sporadic so it still averages the same but it goes up and down a lot and that makes sense because you're measuring the power

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