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  • Well I suppose it's all subjective, isn't it...? I would describe 'comfortable' as pushing hard but not breathing hard/hanging on for dear life/wishing for death. I've only ever done one 10 mile TT effort and I've not come close to that level of effort in a long time. Confession: I haven't tested FTP in a while, I just use the WKO4 mFTP, so it may be a bit lower than it ought to be.

    Last two weeks have been:
    63 miles, 4000ft, 0.84 IF;
    40 miles, 1500ft, 0.9 (pushing hard on the way back);
    75 miles, 4000ft, 0.85 (felt hard because I was still tired from the previous one);
    45 miles, 2000ft, 0.91

    • a few odd 25-30 miles at 0.9ish (with intervals).

    Based on how I've felt on the longer rides, I don't think my performance would drop much over another 25 miles. I'm hopefully riding a 40 mile chaingang later today, which may give me an idea of whether my IF/FTP is accurate...

  • Be wary of mFTP, unless you're being careful to feed the model good data, regularly. That is, giving it maximum power data at FRC, FTP/FRC, FTP etc.

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