Challenge completed!
Ride now open for analysis:
https://www.trainerroad.com/career/captain%20doughnutman/rides/73597582-hour-record
I have my own thoughts about it but I’ll wait for the peanut gallery to calm down first. 
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Oh that was totally planned. As well as the jump at 50min.
Was riding the last half mostly on HR data/theoretically calculated zones.
At 30min I tried to hold around 145bpm, then at 50min up to 150-155bpm.
No scientific protocol or anything behind that decision, just a hunch at pacing.
Pretty sure my FTP is totally wrong.
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(edit: looking at this now, the choice is obvious. I’ll leave this up for the rubber neckers but don’t read this post! Apologies for wasting your precious time. 
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Help me make up my FTP mind:
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the “hour”/55min interval was 235w NP (could have been 240 but I was really d*ckin’ around for a while there in the middle
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the last 20min was 255w NP/av:
Very recent 20min test was 230w NP/av which put me at ~220w FTP.
What would be a more realistic choice:
The ‘Hour’ FTP @ 235w or the ‘Tired 20’ FTP @ ~240-245w (using the standard 95% of 20min test)?
My 4hrs of Tempo training this month really paid off! 
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Hang on guys, this thread is to challenge the myth that FTP is hour power, not reaffirm it!
If you can hold or exceed your established FTP for an hour, I say your FTP is likely…but not definitely…higher than you think.
Use your judgement and additional testing as you see fit to establish a new FTP.
In TR’s version of the 20min test, the 5min “all out” is @ 110%; not so anaerobic. Doing 35min @ 100% could put a “tired” spin on the last 20min of the hour ride, especially in my current state of ‘how low can you go’ fitness.
After consulting with both HR and RPE, I’m going to go with a new 240 FTP.
(which is weird after such a prolonged period of inactivity…
oh well…take the money & run!)
I suspect you’re a bit higher, but you can’t spend your whole time testing 
That would mean my ‘off the couch/out of the coffin’ FTP would be ~250. Logically, I just can’t accept that. 
Mine pretty much flatlined around 250 kind of in a good way, last year. Put in a bunch of training, only got up to 253, took 8 weeks off, 252, some training, then 6 weeks illness…251. Made me wonder about my FTP and eventually start this thread.
250 is also what I came in at when I started TR in 2018 after about 6 weeks off. Not sure if I should be excited that my floor is 250 or depressed that after 6 months of training I went up to only 300. 
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My SO (who is coming up on her first year anniversary of using TR) decided she wanted to do the Hour Record for her FTP tests going forward since she had seen me doing the longer FTP tests. She just finished a training block so I bumped her target up 20w and was curious to see how long she would last.
She did the whole thing! I think she PR’d her entire power curve from like 3 minutes onwards
(The last 5 minutes were filled with lots of expletives aimed at Coach Chad )
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that is so awesome! 
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Pro tip: the best synonym for “stubborn” is “motivated”
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Id almost forgotten about this thread, I havent done the TR Hour of Power, but I did take part in a 40km simulation, and carried 250W for 59:28 off an FTP of 258.
I think a smoother effort might mean I can get those remaining 8W but the race scenario really helped with motivation.
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This is the most awesome thing I’ve seen on this forum to-date!
Absolutely crushed it 
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I’ve done a couple:
March 31st - 51 minutes at 243W on a 243W FTP (WKO5 mFTP of 242W). This one felt like pacing was good:
And another on Saturday May 23 - 65 minutes at 230W on a rising FTP but coming off a week of “allergy sick” and a hard Wed/Thur 2-day block. Didn’t feel particularly strong that day, and was somewhat conservative on pacing.
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Hour Record looks very similar to Unicorn +1. I completed that last weekend. Looks the same work portion, but with a different warm up. I wasn’t well rested, so was really pleased to get through and break a load of my old power curve. I did 334w (98%) for 60 mins. Kolie Morre FTP test up once I’m rested - hoping for the hallowed 350w!!
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