Feature Request: xPower

I’d like to request the option to use Skiba’s xPower metric as an alternative to Normalized Power.

xPower is what Strava uses for its Weighted Average, and I personally think it’s a better way of estimating the physiological cost of a ride. As someone relatively stronger at 30 second efforts, I find Normalized Power tends to overestimate the intensity and variability (and training load) of some of my rides.

So it would be nice if xPower was an option.

Thanks for all your great work.

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Thats quite an interesting concept. I had heard of xPower before but never looked it up. I could certainly add it as an extra stat displayed for a ride but making it possible to swap out NP everywhere in Intervals.icu would be quite a bit of work.

This is quite a nice comparison of xPower vs NP (normalised watts in Intervals.icu) and the better fit of xPower with HR is very big plus IMO:

https://science4performance.com/tag/xpower/

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Can we bump this request up the list? :slight_smile:

anyone had a go at making this? might have a go when I have time as should be possible in the custom scripts

I share with you a google colab script so that you can see the xPower throughout a session