Help me conquer my nemesis

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You can also compare your TR max 5min power to that calculated MAP for another metric to help zero in. Your zones are going to be set to %FTP or %MAP, training to either or, not both. If you are presumably training to %FTP, then MAP is just giving you a general VO2max power number to shoot for.

As we should all know by now, barely anything in the cycling world is rigidly precise or perfectly exact. Don’t worry about it too much.

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But as we all also know, shooting for that precision gold at the end of the muddled cycling rainbow is what forums are for!

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Already great advice here, I have a similar goal after my last A race. I have a 5:30 minute climb (my best time might be 5:20 with an average power right under 400w). To break through to a PR and a strava trophy (what else matters?) I’ll need to average over 420w - it’s doable but it’s gonna hurt. My plan is to do a run when I’m fresh and see how far off I am. If I think it’s doable I’ll give it another go. I thought this might be a “nice” distraction from the longer sub/Supra ftp efforts I’m focusing on now. Good luck!

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@Tkingo you may be able to make a big improvement over your next two rides. Personally I think we are over complicating this by estimating what power you should be able to do.

  1. Go out there next time and ride the climb as hard as you can, aiming for a PR. Inevitably you will have paced it a bit off.
  2. Note down the average watts for the segment.
  3. Go back another day and from the start of the segment aim to hold 20 watts more than your average from last time. As you probably went out too hard (most of us do that) you may be surprised how easy it feels. Tell yourself to do everything you can to hold that number and you may be suprised.

Good luck!

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