-
meh, fitness comes and goes, fatigue plus so many factors, you arent racing or chasing segments like @andyp so why bother with ftp.
just exercise
-
Change something.
Are you tired? Are you not pushing as hard in tests? Have you done so much SS you've blunted your top end? Are you just sick of sitting on a bike inside every day? Etc
Last year in lockdown I raised my indoor FTP above what I'd done outside and then it progressively declined before the Breckland 12hr. Could I explain it? Maybe it was just trainer fatigued. Maybe there was a physiological reason but if there was I don't know what it was.
Sometimes you just need to do something else.
why do you care about the ftp? (as a metric)