Targeting 200 watts for 1 hour

[Jonnyboy]

@AgingCannon

Yes, if you really subscribe to the idea of FTP as “hour power”. But it seems to be more often described now as the “lactate threshold” between aerobic and anaerobic work (if I understood correctly of course), and thus FTP is a power level which reasonably fit athletes can sustain for 40-70 minutes.

I’m obviously not yet “reasonably fit”. I recently hit 1000W for 7 seconds, but my best-ever 20-minute power is just 179W (two days ago, in fact!). As I said above, I’ve developed some strength/power but my endurance is terrible… and to do a 200W hour as the OP wants to do, or to hold 150W for 2-3 hours which I’d like to do, one needs to train both.

I’m absolutely not having a go at your fitness, we all start somewhere and as someone coming back from an enforced hiatus I have a lot of work to do!

But it does show that regardless of the number, overreaching on an FTP test (as you appear to have) can completely throw your training zones off.

You mentioned that you are training in zone 2 power for endurance, but if you are training at your ‘set’ FTP rather than your ‘achievable’ FTP how do you know you are actually training in the correct zone?

Don’t want to take away from the OPs question or criticise you, but thought your post raise an interesting point for discussion, especially as the OP is specifically looking to train endurance at or close to FTP.

Link to an interesting discussion on this

Ramp Test, Automatic Adjustment to Rider Profile?

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