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Ten Minute Tips #26: The Case Against Erg Mode

Empirical Cycling Podcast

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The Importance of Intervals

I find more pleasure in seeing a well-executed interval that's not so perfectly consistent and one of the reasons for this is just in practical terms you know if you're going to be racing outside most people who listen to this podcast do some sort of competition. I think it sets up an expectation where or a certain interpretation of power where like if you stray one watt outside zone two you have now ruined all your adaptations, he says. He tells them just go outside and just do the efforts and the efforts look like basically as flawless as you can get outside. They go man I don't know why I couldn’t hold the power I'm looking at it  and they say

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