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Ten Minute Tips #24: You Are Not Your CTL

Empirical Cycling Podcast

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Is TSS a Pitfall for New Riders?

TSS comes from normalized power, right? So what is intensity factor squared is your TSS for the day, I believe. And so that's how you get your normalized power and that's why normalized power is not always equal to average power when you have a really stochastic ride or an intense sprint. Because you're raising that number to the fourth power and then summing it up and then taking the square root,. those two operations don't commute so it's actually emphasizing those really big spikes. It leads to fun workouts like TSS busters where I can crank out 200 TSS in like an hour and 15 minutes and then lie on the side of the road. If I

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