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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
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Yeh, I did wonder if that's a factor; i've got around 7-8 weeks worth of data and CTL probably only starts being really meaningful after 3-4 months at a guess.
Will have a butchers at the FTP blog. I find it hard to do a meaningful test, as I find turbo a bit unrealistic when I ride on it (my heart rate is practically negative indoors for instance), and it's not particularly feasible outdoors due to cars / lights etc
jim1985
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.