Power meter book redux
Training and racing with a power meter, 2nd edition ..
I'm a book junkie, really ... Can't get enough. On the bedside table (ok, my floor...) is "Supertraining" by Mel Siff and a pile of other training books and novels etc. My latest bit of bedtime reading is the second edition of "Training and Racing with a power meter" which arrived in the mail yesterday. Not that it matters but this was one of the first copies published and it has the author's signatures in it. Uhuh ... Someone else scribbled in my book! Anyway ...
I've got two copies of the first edition (don't ask ...) and one of the second. Hopefully I won't get another copy of it soon. A very quick summary; this remains THE book on power training for enduros. It's not quite totally useless for sprinters, there's a chapter that talks about track for about two pages and doesn't (in my quick scan last night) mention sprint, but there's a page or two on BMX, which is very similar to track sprint. Hopefully I'll get a chance to read it soon and try to glean something useful from it. Dr Dan from the VIS and I have been looking at data from some of the VIS sprinters and power is a great tool, but 95% of the book is about endurance thresholds etc which we just don't care about!
I also got another power meter today for aboc, another Powertap, it's the Pro +, and will be used by Nathan with his enduro riders.