Numbers on Baker RR
Posted on May 12, 2008
Looked at the powertap data and here are some numbers.
1st climb:
346 watts for 19 minutes – 184bpm max HR
Riser after feed zone:
312 watts for 12 minutes – 180bpm max HR
2nd time up the climb
325 watts – 192bpm max HR
TT to the end
283 watts for the last 8 miles
These are all average wattage. After I took a breather I was able to put down some power again… 283 is not much, but after the first 3 efforts it was tough…. freaking wind.
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Jan,
Have you gotten the training peaks software yet? You’ll get a better idea of these numbers if you look at your normalized power for the same durations. It won’t vary that much but for the long efforts avg. watttage isn’t terribly accurate, unless you climb the entire time with no descending or coasting. And you’ll be able to pinpoint the moments when you get dropped during a race of attrition and then train to fill those gaps in your “skill set”.
Ted
No software. Is it a web based app or does it run locally?
The averages were taken from the Excel file… sum up all the cells from the start to the end of the climb and divide by number of recordings…. pretty straightforward. On the flatter parts there were some 0 watt efforts, but thats it.
I can’t remember if I did coast on the hill
, or at least in these efforts.
go to trainingpeaks.com and download the free sample of training peaks WKO. You’ll like it and it is free for a month. It will help you understand the required wattage to say, stay away from the pack at a tuesday night crit or the last lap of a race. Then you can train your intervals to simulate these efforts or greater. The one thing I have learned from looking at race data throughout the year is that you can build your confidence by studying your race data. ie I know what numbers I can hold for a 2 mins. 5 mins. 10 mins. etc.
This helps when you are bridging, riding the break or going it alone at the end of a race.
BTW, my largest cog was a 19. I had to climb in that gear, wish i could have “spinned” a bit more
Good for people to know.