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But why are you training 1m? Presumably you've raced 'something' for 1m or with a 1m max component and want to improve it? There's your 1m value. Otherwise you're picking arbitrary time frames to improve which seems a bit weird. If you have no power data you could test but most people recommend just riding with a PM for a while to collect some data and familiarise yourself with everything.
If you're training with power, get WKO/TrainingPeaks. You still need to test.
hippy-
I picked 1m for two reasons: my power profile in TP shows it's significantly below the other values that it has picked out from racing this season, and secondly it's probably the most useful interval to improve for bridging, breakaways, longer-range sprints etc for the racing I am doing.
Maybe you could go through all your power files and see that it's actually 90 seconds, or 100 seconds, or 86.52 seconds that is the average max period in a given race, but 1m is what TP uses so I want a protocol to test this regularly, in the same way last year I was doing regular 20 minute tests for FTP. NB I don't really care about FTP this year other than for training zones, but probably should...
onyerbike
I see your point, but I think we train in different ways.
I wouldn't try to improve 1m power by just going out and doing successive 1m intervals at max effort until exhaustion - it's hard mentally/boring, and hard to be specific/repeatable when you are just doing fatigued max efforts, which will be lower than the first effort.