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Ohh.. That's what it's for. Weird
What's wrong with 6 mins progressive effort, and a couple of activation sprints?
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Beats me! Or a MAP test and just take a % off the end of it - much easier as there's no pacing involved, you can do it blind if you've got someone to help you and it's not as affected by residual fatigue.
Having said that when you get enough data and a better feel for things you don't even need to do them - NP over a ~20min duration will get you most of the way there if you're doing intervals on the turbo or something, or a 25 mile TT, 1hr chaingang, etc.
xavierdisley
I really disagree with this 5min "blowout" effort before a 20min test. It's very difficult to standardise, no-one knows or explains how hard you should go (because if you do a proper 5min max then your 20min effort will be ridiculously low) and just do a normal warm up instead.
For people that really worry about the 20min/60min relationship then do a 20min test, and within a week or so do a 60min test without whinging about it and work out the % difference so that you know for sure.