My bike leg power from triathlons is always lower than I think I should be able to sustain

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With a FTP around 260 that would mean racing around 240-245 but I usually come in around 220 or less.

How is your FTP derived and how long are you holding it in training?

A number is a just a number, what you can actually regularly do is all that what matters when it comes to the event.

Re: what you should be able to hold in a Sprint its normally higher than you’ve stated imo.

See table…

FTP Racing percentage for Olympic Distance Tri and Time Trials

Hi Jo! Here’s a generally agreed upon table of percent of FTP that you should target for the below distances: Race distance % of FTP Sprint 90–105% Olympic 85–95% Half-Ironman 75–85% Ironman 65–80% A Sprint Distance Tri would have a 20km TT, and the Olympic Tri would fit your 40km TT well. For the 34km TT, you’ll want to target somewhere around 90-95% FTP. I hope this helps!

If you cant or a don’t do 20 minutes or over close to FTP then you aren’t going to in a race (in fact in race shape I suggest you should be able to do 2x 20 at 97-100% of FTP)

Muscular endurance might be your main problem or 260 simply isnt your FTP or your pacing is off, the up hills should slightly offset the coasting, and coasting should be minimal.

^ Good advice about longer threshold and sst intervals.

What are you PLs, without knowing what you are doing in training and what you power durantion curve looks like its hard to know if there is an issue or its unrealistic expectations.

Hope you can give some feedback, I’m intrigued.