How did you 5w/kg+ riders make it there?

I think some have mentioned but I will mention it again. As a XC Mtb’r there are plenty of riders who have bigger FTP than me and I fluctuate between 150-153lbs and 287-310 FTP.

Your ability to over FTP repeatedly and your time to exhaustion is arguably more important on many courses. I know plenty of guys that can ride away from me at a steady state effort but as soon we surge over and over again, they will get spit out the back.

Focus on different measures of fitness outside of just FTP.

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