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If you had to lie down for half an hour afterwards because you were completely cooked, averaging close to 95% of your max HR for the race, then the normalised figure might not be too far off.
My race watts are always quite a lot lower than my FTP, as I try and avoid getting anywhere close if possible, so I have the watts needed when in counts (I don’t really do breakaways)
Acliff
Is it reasonable to base my FTP on a hour long race effort? if so, should I be using actual or normalised?