What's Your Wattage?

So, is a lumbering Giant performing as well as a spritely un-giant? Long a tool of cyclist, wattage is one way of measuring output. For cyclist they use special hubs that give them their wattage for a given effort. For a runner its not so easy. Enter the RAST test. For giants it gets interesting here.

If you are a 150 lb un-giant running 35 meters in 5 seconds you produce 668 watts. If you are solidly in the Giant category like me at 233 and do the same 35 meters in 5 seconds the wattage is 1033. To match the power output I'd have to run nearly a second slower.

We are currently working to develop a formula that will estimate power output for runs of any length. This may be in the form of a Pace Calculator iPhone App.