These rides have too high of a variability to draw any conclusion from the NP other than you probably have a high anaerobic contribution to your FTP.
Try the Ramp Test instead of the 8 minute test and see where it puts you, or go do a TT effort more than 40 minutes.
On the second 8-minute all out effort (in apparently a pretty hot room at 23C) you reach a max HR of 162.
On the outdoor ride you reach 162+ on multiple occasions and even get as high as 174. Something’s not right there.
Try the ramp test like @stevemz suggests, try to make the room cooler, and try not to stop until your heart rate is 174 at least.
On the outdoor rides you are hitting max power numbers that seem unreasonable. The second outdoor ride shows max power of >1400 watts. Those spikes are a problem with the power meter. You could load the file into Golden Cheetah and remove the spikes over 600 w (my ball park estimate for your max power) and see what your NP comes down to.
The TSS numbers do not appear realistic either.
Another way to get at the reasonableness of your outdoor ride numbers would be to get a power file from someone else from the group on those rides and compare it to yours.
How are those spikes unreasonable? He said he was 110kg so that’s totally within reason and doesn’t mean there’s a problem with the power meter.
How would that make any sense? As a 110 kg rider, he’s going to have wildly different power numbers than others on the same ride.
Because they look like power spikes and not real data. Cadence goes from 0 to 117 in 3 seconds with no change in speed or heart rate.
Depending on the power meter (i.e. if its a crank arm model), these types of power spikes are very common when encountering rough road (or if you are on an MTB)
Fair point. That makes sense. Those do look like outliers. I can’t fathom a 110 kg rider having a max wattage of 600 though but you’ve taken the time to actually look at some of the ride files so you’d certainly have a better idea.
Sorry, I missed the 110 kg part. It makes the average power numbers look unreasonably low at that weight.
The relative numbers should be similar to someone doing the same ride. The TSS, the NP relative to the average power. Their should be lots of comparatives for the ride if someone else has some data.
I’ve had power files results skewed with one data spike and their appear to be a number of spikes in these files.
You guys obviously have A LOT more experience than I do…thanks for the valued input. It makes sense as I read it.
I use a Stages Left Side only arm, and our (South African) roads do have some rough bits so its possible that those spike may be as I transfer power and knock a rough patch in the road?
Lots of comments I agree with:
Again, thank you for everyone’s input and time taken. I appreciate it.
