Re: Let's go Dynamic

Two days later i made a series of timed 500m pieces.
My aim was to establish whether results of timed pieces made on three different types of C2 ergs can be compared directly.

So i've put three machines side by side. After a long and thorough warmup i made 12 x 500 m on fixed, dynamic and on slides, 4 rounds. I tried to keep the same *subjective* level of intensity, about my 2k pace. I tried not to look at the display readings, i would only look up my HR, if anything. After each 500m trial there was 2 minutes AR and one minute for a change -- start every 5 minutes. All results were stored on a memory card and analyzed later at home.

All 12 trials returned *very* *similar* results: almost the same times and the same heart rates, with one parameter varying consistently -- the cadence.
My average cadence on fixed head was 30,5, on dynamic 27,5 and on slides 27,75.

Frankly, I find it counter intuitive and don't know what to make of it.
My coach has the complete spreadsheet with these results, maybe he will find out. That was made a week ago and I moved on already.

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Virtually Yours, Zibi

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