Great thread; big thanks to those sharing their files, flat or otherwise! Very illuminating.
hahaha “I tried riding Z2” (with an IF of .94). Exactly my humour.
I think I can see on the graph the moment where you decided to just go for it! Thanks for sharing!
Ha!
Well you know, sometimes ambition doesn’t match outcome.
Ah yes, the moment of “Argh! The hell with this” is not very well disguised. 
@mcneese.chad – Nice! Yeah I find the same thing. you definitely to use all the gears, and cadence to do it. Including some oddly slow cadence 
- Yuppers! I end up touching into the 40-50 range on some of those climbs once I hit the lowest gear and still aim to hold lower power. It’s out of the saddle and a bit of a fun challenge to hold the lower power while doing it
climbing: 346 meters / 1135’ with some 15% grades, both good and bad roads
I’m usually doing ‘endurance’ which is highlighted in green and target is 66-79% ftp / 180-215W
a little more climbing (442M / 1449’) with some intervals (85% tempo and 4-min above threshold):
definitely easier to hold power on the longer climbs, but it got punchy and a little more challenging around 2:15:00.
Hmmm me thinks erg mode has spoiled me. Maybe time to practice holding power targets without it on the trainer as well as outside!
As a fellow ERG junkie… there is no reason you can’t get it done.
Same here, it’s not even worth finding a power file. Less than 50% of time
In zone.
Its not an issue IMHO, here is a recent Sunday morning group ride on a windy pancake flat route:
you can see my 66-79% ftp target. Just looking at that its pretty easy to say “close enough!” 
am I right?!
but for the “show me some real data” crowd here is time in zone:
- 128 minutes total
- heart rate mostly in low aerobic zones (only 7-min in tempo HR)
- power is a mix of low and high aerobic, heavily weighted (70%) to low aerobic (z1 and z2)
- hit my load target of 90-110 TSS to continue slow ramp of weekly training load
- Garmin gave it 4.0 out of 5 on aerobic, and 0.4 on glycolytic, impacting base
- WKO gave it 5 out of 10 on aerobic impact, and 2 out of 10 on glycolytic
And I can tell you the ride did NOT require any special recovery, which is one of the main goals of all my 2 hour endurance rides.
Mission accomplished!!!
The ride I shared is 2hours 20 mins duration, which was 43% endurance zone or around 1 hour. If I were to do a 1.5 hour indoor ride, I’d massively increase my time in zone. There are other benefits of riding outside but I can’t see myself being able to get close to the 70% time in zone the other posters like Chad have managed.