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I suspected this may be the case, what a waste of money that was.

In other news, and in stark contrast to TTM, my ftp via 20 minute extrapolation is a low low 247W which at 67kg puts me at 3.69 W/kg.

Although I suspect my test was flawed as I did it in the real world on a real hill with real gravel and real bumps.

#Excuses

Functional Threshold. So 1 hour.

3.69 W/kg

If it's anti-willy-waving then I'll chime in with my highest recent FTP (by similar methods of extrapolation of 20 minute figure) is currently 2.23W/kg.

You don't need big W/kg for long distance stuff.

349587934534534532492345325239582347523 W/kg

In theory Your FTP should be higher outdoors. Its easier to engage the upper body. And theres air. Which is Nice.

In practice. Flat bits, and bumps make it tricky to maintain high watts. So you'd need a Nice smooth hill ideally.

:-)

If you're mainly a mile muncher. You're not going to Train 20 min smashes. So you're probably not going to do great in a 20min test.

At least thats my excuse.

My FTP is, after a fair amount of work, back to a uninspiring 280w. Thats at 80kg. So even less inspiring /kg. Looking at my curve, I fall apart at 30 seconds.

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Possibly, but my SRMs disagree.

FTP test on a turbo / static bike is not going to yield results IMHO.

You need a ventoux or something

So you have two power graphs for the effort? Was the PT higher for the whole thing?

What is it's calibration value? See: http://www.cyclepowermeters.com/powertap-garmin-calibration-check-76-c.asp

Sadly no, I'm not DC rainmaker.

I'm basing it on similar efforts on the SRM bike at similar stages in training, at similar RPE / HR.

All this is flawed, I know, but it felt too easy for an FTP type effort.

Either that or suddenly this training malarky IS ACTUALLY WORKING.

If you weren't running them at the same time and see the much higher values in one over the other than all bets are off. HR and RPE >>> (unless you're elite level and have previously been shown able to id load)

Check the PT calibration using instructions in the link above. If it's ok then check SRMs. If it's ok then maybe you were just fresh and your FTP is wrong.

I raise your 9000

It that 5sec power an anomaly or do you actually have a world class sprint?

This is better than Ventoux. Our local FTP testing site. 5.5km at a smooth 6%. My pb is 22:10 at 163 BPM. As my FTHR is more like 167 for cycling. I should be able to beat that in theory. The reason its better than ventoux. Is because at 6% you can basically Select cadence, and at 5.5km you can smash it without popping half way up.

https://www.strava.com/segments/4385139?filter=overall

I have made a decent effort to rid my back data of PowerCal peaks. But I did have a lot of them, and that does look high cough.

1000w for 10 Seconds is probably accurate though*.

(* on a Nice striaght hill, with a nice little rise, after a Nice little warm up.)

Turns out I hit 2000w for 5 Seconds while pushing 240bpm.........

......which may not of actually happened.

(more fecking back data cleaning).

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Haz Stages so can't play on this other than to say my left right imbalance (musculature) is visible to the naked eye from calf to quad. Had assumed that as weaker looking side is on the left that I was pumping out more watts than being measured. Don't want to hear that danb!

Stages may have been a poor choice for you...

Thanks!

Ok, that looks a bit more realistic. I was wondering why you were bothering with FTP when you could just destroy match sprints instead.

Not enough gadgets and fiddling with/ agonising over components on a track bike for @Smallfurry :)