Keep in mind that a ramp test assumes a correlation between the max level you can hit in a ramped effort and your FTP - sorta like measuring your tibia length to figure out how tall you are (not saying the correlation is the same, better or worse). Even a 20-min FTP test assumes a correlation between your 20-min max effort and your 60-min one. At the end of the day, what’s important is to get threshold training to be very demanding but still feasible. Being off a Watt up or down is irrelevant - your ability day-to-day varies a lot more than that anyway.
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