Sunday, September 13, 2009

Working out the work out - part 1

Take one temperature sensor -


Clip it to your turbo trainer's cooling fin. Pictured, a Phonak-tastic CycleOps Fluid2. Notice how the sophisticated clamping device has been fashioned to resemble a clothes peg - genius.





and measure -



(A) background temperature, (B) warm up (literally!) and (C) first interval session.

The serial buffer maxed out after 250 data-points, but the initial results are promising. Cafevelo reckons that the jewels are buried in the area under the curve.

Any thoughts readers?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What do you mean by jewels?

Hopefully I can help you find the info you're after (keen cyclist & physics graduate).