There’s a nice video from GCN about Nibali’s first day at the Giro, and I grabbed a screenshot of the warmup protocol for the opening time trial (the one that was also on Zwift).
According to the image, his FTP is 390.
Here’s the full video.
There’s a nice video from GCN about Nibali’s first day at the Giro, and I grabbed a screenshot of the warmup protocol for the opening time trial (the one that was also on Zwift).
According to the image, his FTP is 390.
Here’s the full video.
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So, his warm up is basically my ramp test to exhaustion with an extra minute on top.
Caveat: road bike FTP might well be a little bit higher than that.
Take heart. My ramp test ends before Nibali even gets out of endurance zone. There’s a reason no one’s paying me to ride a bike.
If I had that FTP, I would never lose another gravel race.