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Whilst tonight’s ride wasn’t anything spectacular – just a base miles session – the big win was in getting MyWhoosh connected up properly to my pedals. For once, and I don’t know why, it found a different connect to my pedals and it tracked the wattage perfectly.
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I’ve never seen anything other than Zwift do this, so I was very happy to have it accurately recording my stats. Usually it involves me knocking my in-game FTP down by 20 watts to account for the 20 watt discrepancy it throws at me.
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About the only downside to this was that it seemed to be connected via BlueTooth rather than ANT+, and whenever I put my hands near the Garmin head unit, it seemed to lose the cadence reading for a few seconds. No actual detriment to my workout, but it played havoc with my on-screen rider.
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It will be interesting to properly test this again (tomorrow?) and see if it continues to play ball. The only thing I did differently tonight was go through the menus and skip the initial phase of connection as I wasn’t ready to ride, but wanted to get the game up and running ahead of time.
Then when it was time to connect, I got the additional option.
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I think if I don’t connect my head unit for cadence, I might have the best of all worlds. If this does work, I would actually love to try the Wahoo SYSTM (or whatever it’s called nowadays) once more, as for me, they have the best workout library by far.
But one step at a time.