I have been reading Allen and Coggan's book "Training and Racing with a Power Meter"
While nearly finished reading, and having most of the testing done I ran in to a question today. I'm a new rider so please don't laugh at my numbers...
I believe my FTP to be 165 (based on the 95% of 20 minute TT criteria)
My historical Power data, along with current data seem to support this number as being accurate. Then today I rode a pretty good effort for about an hour and a half. However, I was doing intervals that worked out to about 30 minutes each (3 intervals - but lost the data to one due to setup) None the less, the hour I recorded gave me a Normalized Power of 165W.
If normalized power takes into consideration uphill, downhill, coasting, etc., and I have an exact hour of data (64 minutes actually) then it should be a true FTP. I'm not looking to prove my FTP, I can test for that. I just think this seems like a fairy simple way to VERIFY my FTP. Provided of course you have a 1 hour segment to look at.
Can anyone confirm this?
While nearly finished reading, and having most of the testing done I ran in to a question today. I'm a new rider so please don't laugh at my numbers...
I believe my FTP to be 165 (based on the 95% of 20 minute TT criteria)
My historical Power data, along with current data seem to support this number as being accurate. Then today I rode a pretty good effort for about an hour and a half. However, I was doing intervals that worked out to about 30 minutes each (3 intervals - but lost the data to one due to setup) None the less, the hour I recorded gave me a Normalized Power of 165W.
If normalized power takes into consideration uphill, downhill, coasting, etc., and I have an exact hour of data (64 minutes actually) then it should be a true FTP. I'm not looking to prove my FTP, I can test for that. I just think this seems like a fairy simple way to VERIFY my FTP. Provided of course you have a 1 hour segment to look at.
Can anyone confirm this?