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Cheers. It's not really giving me anything that a meanmax power curve isn't giving me anyway, I just thought it might be interesting. VAM x gradient might be an interesting chart though, to see if there's a drop off anywhere. But then that wouldn't consider interval time... ah fuck it. I'm just bored waiting for my next uni semester to start so am filling my non-cycling time with nonsense.
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I'd say it's meaningless unless all of that data came from the same climb. As you say, your mean max curve is what tells you what you have produced at every point in time. That's a far better measure of performance gains over time (assuming you have ridden at max effort for the durations you are interested in comparing).
If you are determined to use VAM, find a climb that you can test on repeatedly and just use those data Setswana create a chart (using tags).