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Just to chip in, though please remember I'm as new to this power thing as you, but your CTL probably won't be right because you've only been collecting data for a short amount of time (6 weeks?). Unless you've seeded it of course.
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Also, see this in regards to testing FTP.
http://alex-cycle.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/sins-of-sins-testing-ftp-2.html?m=1 -
To keep your CTL increasing"safely" for want of a better word, your ATL should be higher than CTL but not too high.
TSB is just the difference between these two and what % you can handle is going to be individual but a 50% diff is probably going to be felt.
TTM
dubtap
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Thanks @dubtap and @skinny.
Am not 100% on my FTP, but I think it's within 5% of being correct from looking at my peak power graph (not sharing it as it's too pathetic for public consumption).
My numbers on Friday were CTL 79 and ATL 120. I know the basics of what these numbers mean having done some reading (primarily of the acrhives on TP) but don't know all this stuff inside out yet. @dubtap, what do you mean when you say my workouts are too hard compared to my CTL?
Apologies, powern00b here.