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That’s interesting!
Would go part of the way of explaining why I seem to have nothing left after 40 seconds.
Perhaps my aerobic contribution is letting me down.I’m aiming to push 30s power to 900w+ and 60s to 700w+.
Current at 800w / 600w.From the sounds of it, I would need to approach these with different methods?
Acliff
I can’t remember the details but iirc there was a study that looked at this in runners. Essentially they measured the proportional contribution of aerobic and anaerobic energy systems at different distances. By 400m (duration of c. 45-50seconds) the effort was predominantly (maybe 60-70%) aerobic.
So maybe you could say 30s efforts are at least substantially anaerobic, but I think 60s would be dominated by aerobic systems.