Power quest

serpico7

This week's workouts:
Tuesday:
1x20 @ 191w AP
1x20 @ 194w AP

Today:
1x40 @ 201w AP

Bumping my FTP estimate up to 201.

Piotr

I think your FTP is higher still. Don't be afraid to think that your 1 x 40 min might actually be only 95% of FTP. That makes for a hell of a workout indoors regardless. Remember FTP is your best 1 hr effort when fresh and very motivated. It's pretty much impossible to duplicate best conditions indoors. I never duplicate my bests indoors.

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kopride

You are rocking along. At the suggestion of other posters, I am going to start hitting some longer intervals of 30-45 minute duration as well this month. It will be interesting to see where they fall in relation to my shorter 20 minute ones. Like the other commenters, I think that your estimates are too low and that you are probably well into the 200s if you did a 1 hour tt outdoors under optimum conditions. Grinding indoors is tough. Keep the room cold, use a fan, and find a good distractor. I have been watching the HBO "Wire" series on Comcast on-demand over the past few months and the minutes fly by. It is amazing how much better my sessions are if I can really distract myself with a good program. I will be bumming when there are no more episodes left. I have requested a bunch of those box sets of good series I never had time to watch for X Mas to get me through the winter. Others like ipods or those tour videos. Whatever your gig, the longer you can stay in that mental zone where you mind is right above the pain, the easier it is. When I am watching those seconds tick down in the middle of a hard interval, minutes seem very long.

serpico7

Yeah, I suspect you all are right, but I can't motivate to do a 60m TT, so I use my best performance from the weekend group rides or indoor sessions as my FTP estimate. In any case, I think I'm getting good workouts now.

I ran out of Tour DVDs. I think I'll get a few TV/cable series.

Piotr

If you must, listen to some non-distracting music like a trance mix (www.di.fm) and start using your imagination more (visualizations). That's all you'll have in a time-trial. I get so into my fantasies that sometimes I'll even do a winning salute at the end of a particularly challenging block (if I feel I deserve it). Don't beat yourself up for not wanting to do a 60 minute TT indoors either. The result may not be very accurate or motivating. At least that's the reason I never did one.

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