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ABCD…..FTP: Understanding some training data

I am a numbers junkie…. which is kind of ironic since I am not very good with numbers.  Just add one letter of the alphabet to multiplication and I’m done, not to mention Greek letters and symbols.  And what the heck is an imaginary number??   But, I like data.  Sometimes it makes me sad, but usually it gives me something to work toward.  I don’t plan on being the next Tadej Pogačar but I want to know if I am improving or if I am on the same level as other average old women.   Enter the smart trainer….A few years back, my husband was blessed to win a significant gift card at a bike shop he just happened to stop at when in Cranberry, PA. He put it toward the purchase of a Wahoo Kickr Core ( https://us.zwift.com ). He has spent hours on the trainer, exploring Watopia, an imaginary Zwift world, with a huge amount of other, non-imaginary, people from all over the world.  Recently, we upgraded to the Zwift Cog and Click system which allows us to easily swit...

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