>>1980107You specifically said you need to "increase your FTP", which strongly implies taking a quantitative approach to training for your commute, and the only way to do that is a power meter. Which is completely ridiculous.
Perhaps I should have specified "an average cyclist level of fitness" but I thought that was understood. If you're a commuter, that implies that you commute, that implies riding that route as a matter of routine. Just doing it is enough. First couple weeks will be tough. Then your noob gains conclude and you're fine. Then over a few more months it feels routine, wa la. No power meters, no masks, as a certain washed up weeb likes to say, "just ride".
I'm starting to think maybe the other anon has a point, and you just start these threads trolling with an absurd contrarian position and then randomly taking different sides to strawman increasingly ridiculous opposing views to death in order to get people to argue for the lulz.
