Aerobic Power for Pursuit training

[Steve_B]

Well for starters, it's helpful to know/realize what is plotted month-by-month is Angie's mean maximal normalized power for 60 min, i.e., what she actually did, which isn't necessarily the most that she could actually do. ... so I simply used 1 h normalized power as an estimate of changes in her functional threshold power over the course of the year.

Anyway, while I'm 100% confident that she could have laid down 270 W for 1 h earlier that year ..., when longer intervals were the emphasis of her training, I don't know if she could have sustained 290 W for 60 min when peaking for the pursuit.

Got it. I know that if I don't do steady threshold work for a month or two, my ability to do it suffers greatly, of course. Enough months pass and I have to start all over again. But yet, I can still generate some good NP numbers for similar durations even without the longer steady work. Nothing surprising in saying that, just noting it.