Average Power Including Zeros

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Hi David,

Firstly congratulations on your product, stumbled across it by chance and love it.

I have a question regarding average power including zeros.

When I do a ride on the trainer, and don’t ‘stop’, my average power including zeros appears to be correct. When doing a ride outside though, the average power including zeros, appears to not exclude “time stopped”, or when my Garmin auto pauses, hence dragging the avg power through the floor.

Is there a fix for this that I’ve missed or can’t find?

Thanks in advance

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Tx. The average power including zeros numbers just take the total energy for the time period (sum of all the watts) / elapsed time in seconds. So it will reduce for stops.

The “Avg Power” field that excludes zeros is meant for intervals where any zeros are drop outs and so on that is why they don’t count.

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What power averaging do you recommend to set on a Garmin device, to include zeros or not?

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Which device do you have?
Some devices allows you to include zeros for power and or cadence.

There’s no logical reason to exclude the zeros for power. Your normalised power accounts for the highs, lows and zeros.

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The default for power is to include zeroes. For cadence, the default is to exclude them.
Analyzing power while excluding zeroes does’t make sense. And for cadence it’s the other way round.