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This. It's the Wrongness of it that's annoying me now.
FWIW that "98w" effort left me properly shaking with exertion afterwards in the kind of way that doesn't ever seem to happen during hill climbs on the road. I was trying to maintain the power that trainerroad was telling me to maintain, but obviously couldn't sustain it as it seems to be calculating my actual power output far too low.
Here is my session: http://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/rides/348150
That's based on the starting FTP of 200 before anything is calculated. You can see from the start that I began by maintaining the power demanded of me, but as it started to ramp up to about 120W I wasn't able to sustain it. In the middle of the first high cadence effort I just thought "fuck it" and started ignoring the numbers it was giving me as targets. The two max effort spikes of about "156W" were me really giving it the beans. Which, again, seems like a very low wattage for perceived exertion.
The whole thing is giving me OCD rage.