Book Review: Training and Racing with a Power Meter
Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan release the 2nd Edition of all you need to know
to train and race with a power meter.
Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Edition
If you already know what SRM stands for (Schoberer Rad Messtechnik, naturlich!)
and regularly talk TSS with your other cycling friends, you need a copy of
Training and Racing with a Power Meter.
It should come with pre-established coffee stains, dog-eared pages and pencil
notes in the margins because you will use this book for EVERYTHING; from
reviewing and purchasing a power meter (though most likely you’ve already got
one) to learning the vocabulary of power, to an in-depth analysis and profile of
your own power data and finally how to use all that knowledge to make changes
and hopefully go faster. It’s a dense book that is full of scatter graphs,
equations and words like “circumferential pedal velocity.” Does that excite you?
Then read on.
The first edition came out in 2006, but Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan have
updated this edition with substantial tools about fatigue profiling (which is a
lot more complex than feeling tired or blowing up – silly me!), new software for
power analysis, and use of power meters for triathlons, BMX and cyclocross.
Those are all additions to chapters on understanding power your data, workouts
and developing a power-based training plan and racing with a power meter.
Are you a self-motivated cyclist and perhaps, also self-coached? Or do you
just want to under what goes through a coach’s brain when they look at all those
spiky lines after your workouts? Did you enjoy reading your high school physics
book just for fun? Better make sure you have the ultimate “instruction manual”
for all things power.
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