Smoothing power spikes on Golden Cheetah

[Tinea Pedis]

I have three rides with some mental power spikes (courtesy of my new 810) and trying to smooth them on GC. Looked at a Google Groups thread on it, and they were more concerned on the 'why', not the 'how to smooth'.

If there's a more simple explanation of how to get it done that would be great. Ta guys.

[claus]

GC 3 offers at least two possibilities:
- Tools -> Fix Power Spikes
or
- Edit -> Find, specify which values you are trying to find; you can then override those by hand.

[Tinea Pedis]

Done the first, nothing was fixed. The fact there's also two variables you can alter doesn't help.

The second I tried also (in Excel format), but GC would not accept the file to re-upload.


Is there a step-by-step that someone knows of, please?

[Giant DK]

You can edit the ride data second by second in GC. Just find the spikes and edit them to the value they should have had.

[Tinea Pedis]

Got it. Fantastic.

Ta.

[Machinenoise]

It would be great if the power spike tool would just clip everything above a certain wattage, like it suggests it might do. I've never had any luck getting it to do anything either! one of the few aspects of a brilliant tool that annoys me.

[Rick]

I can't get the Fix Power Spike Tool to work in either V2 or V3. And the explanation for the "variance" parameter doesn't make sense.

So I manually edited the peak a few times to the average of the surrounding (lower) numbers.

It seems odd that the tool has apparently no effect at all.