Power Meters / Powermeters (SRM, Powertap, Quarq, Ergomo, Vector, Stages, power2max, P2M, 4iii, InPower, Cinch)

W/kg is important for climbing, but there's plenty of flat roads for the bigger engines to play on where W/CdA is more important. Maybe not in Nordicville though.. you best move..

defo more like 283 than 273.

We seem to Climb at a similar rate. Yet Your bike is fat*.

(*sorry)

That's the aim of this training block at the moment, to see if I can drop down to 68kg and still hold the numbers. I got near 69 earlier in the year, so it might be doable. Lots of soup to look forward to :-(

Hope the niggles sort themselves out.

thank fuck for that eh!

Need to get a PM on the road bike. Suspect my ftp is at least 20w higher on one.

Why do you think I don't road race any more? Fucking hills, how do they work?!

How do you manage your appetite if you're training so hard though? Turbo make me hungerz

For some reason theres a lot of flat racing up here. Often With one bastard Climb. So you need a bit of W/Kg. But the guy from my Club that wins everything is a TT master. If you let him og off the front. You wont see him again. He admitts to not being able to compete above 8%.

That said. Hes still lighter than I am.

I've been working on climbing (10 -90 mins), and flat bridging (1 - 3mins, usually to the Group that dropped me on the Climb). Seems to be working. Racing/sportiving is feeling loads easier.

Racing/sportiving

I believe the term in "mamiling".

5s: 776
30s: 750
1min: 522
2min: 425
5min: 389
20min: 346
60min: 282
6 hours: 281
All from 3-6hr MTB racing bar the 20minute.

I don't think you've tried hard enough for an hour!

Indeed, I would expect your 60mins to be at least 90% of your 20min and probably more than 95%

True. XC event on the 28th should sort that out.

Last 3 months:

5s: 708
30s: 509
1min: 388
2min: 323
5min: 305
20min: 263
1 hour: 211
2 hours: 207

1 and 2 hr values are both from this weekend's HIM race but I haven't done any long sustained power efforts in training recently, and no 25 or 50mile TTs.

I normally use 10mile TTs as my benchmark FTP test as I work harder with a number on, and there are enough local events to be easily repeatable. Based on my current TT results I estimate FTP to be around 250w, however I've only been able to race twice so far this year so I suspect that in reality it's a fraction higher but I don't have data to actually support that.

Switching from TTs last year to long distance Tri this year has seen a c. 30w drop off in FTP, but in my limited racing this year, I don't appear to be significantly slower - presumably because of improved aeros.

Same here. My figures were for the last 3 months. Include all figures for the last year, including track time over the winter, and they're:

5s: 1107W
30s: 777W
1m: 564W

Seems like I only really give it the beanz on track.

Me neither. Even though I rather suspect the 283W figure is based on some slightly dodgy numbers produced by a Powertap track hub and a Garmin head unit still busily auto-zeroing when I slowed down at the end of my warm-up...

I haven't done any short efforts ever, and my only races have been 10 and 50 mile TTs which I hope explains why my data looks odd!

5s 991
30s 592
1 minute 468
2 minute 381
5 minute 333
20 minute 298
1 hour 245
2 hour 243

You have to work hard enough to feel sick, without doing a @Smallfurry :-)

I am to road racing, as dressage is to horse racing.

If a snow filled roadside ditch doesnt look like a bed to you. You havent emptied yourself.

Thanks all, that's quite the response! Trying to get an idea of efforts needed for certain hill climbs (2-6 mins).

But because idiot I just realised Strava has a power curve for me to work it out myself!!

Last 6 weeks (commuting and 1 x road race):
20 mins 311w
10 mins 316w
5 mins 347w
1 min 483w
5s 940w

It seems I have sprinter's legs but I do lots of long distance stuff (Audax) where there's simply no need to push hard for a long time and so I quickly go into pootle mode:-

(old data from when I was last in any kind of reasonable shape):-

5s: 1128w
30s: 566w
1min: 397w
2min: 347w
5min: 269w
20min: 228w
60min: 214w
6 hours: 135w
30h 15m 44s: 89w (from the Bryan Chapman 600 on fixed)

Aim is to actually bother to push hard on longer rides, FTP should probably be up around 250W if I bothered to put together a proper training effort.

Sprinters legs with an endurance heart. Ditto.

When MAMILing (cheers TW2). I find my low FTP sees me suffering for the first hour or so. But after a few hours I find myself wondering why everyones slowing down. By then the front group is long gone. So I just sit in before sprinting for 73rd.

have some longer stuff coming up though.

I'm training 10-14hrs a week, depending on time race duration. I don't know what else averages, these are from the last three months.
5, 1160
30, 933
1, 708
5, 460
20, 381
1hr, 355
3hr, 297

Oof!

What do you race?

Part of me is wishing all yo' zero offsets are fooked.