TL/DR: I’ve had an issue with a power imbalance (60/40 to 68/32) on a new pair of Assioma duos and have been trying to suss out the source both by myself and with the nice folk at Favero but recently came to the conclusion that my laparoscopic appendectomy at the end of last year might have something to do with it.
Long version:
In need of a new power meter I decided on the Duos and bought them over thanksgiving/black friday week unaware that the following Monday my appendix would decide to go all alien on me and try to escape my body. I had about as good of an experience as one could have with a ct scan in the morning leading to surgery that evening and was sleeping in my own bed that same night. The surgery pain and recovery wise was about as good as it gets and I was doing Dans workouts about 2.5-3 weeks later very gingerly (with doctors approval of course). In that time my black friday purchases of a new saddle and said Assiomas came rolling in and I was eager to begin using them. I’ve been a 4iiii non-drive power user ever since I started training with power and this one was my basis for comparison. Everything was trending low power-wise in Trainerroad and when paired to my Wahoo I was getting power imbalances of 60-68 left 40-32 right depending on the ride. I’ve been in contact with the people at Favero and since nothing happened to my leg amidst all this I assumed that it was a software in the pedal issue. As stated the surgery was the last week of November, I recovered over December and was back pretty close to full restarting SSB1 at the beginning of January at a lower FTP. Body weight exercises and abdominal work also recommenced at that time which I hadn’t noticed any issues doing those exercises. I tend to neglect the legs as I feel I get that work on the bike and don’t want to hinder recovery with excess fatigue. However on the bike it’s been a different story to some degree. My left leg has had its IT band tightness issues return in spite of diligent stretching that helped the first time and the left quad does tend to fatigue faster. I had been blaming a bit of it on trying to get my saddle position right as I have had some issues with that with a previous iteration. I have almost the same saddle on my road bike and it took a while and quite a bit of tweaking till I got it just right and since I did it’s the most comfortable saddle yet to the point a barely need chamois so I figured that to be a big part of the problem but not a 60/40 L/R discrepancy problem. I feel that it may have been masking or even encouraging some poor form at the same time that I may have been babying my right side in the immediate post recovery and months to follow. But at the same time being a fan of Goddard for form work I haven’t noticed much difference during the ILT drills so that’s been a bit confusing. Has anybody else had or discovered similar issues post-op? I’m looking to finally figure out this power discrepancy issue as all my left side only power meters be it my old faithful 4iiii, my wife’s new 4iiii on her R8000 crank and using my Duos in single left side Uno form all read about the same which has had me blaming the 2 sided Duo for this issue.
Thoughts?