I’m curious how fast cyclists are relative to each other. What’s the “average” power of us all? Do we need a poll or can this be pulled from the TR data? I’m a long time TR user and i’m in that middle ground of it all feeling like i’m going quite fast, but how fast is “fast” and how much faster i…

There are still several disciplines where raw power trumps w/kg. Some MTB courses with short climbs, crits, and some CX courses. So while it is probably better for the majority of riding, those with really high FTP but not as high of W/kg can still be extremely fast.

Flat TT course too. Power and aero win every day.

I was wondering if there were ANY women on the TR forum?! :thinking::man_shrugging:

Look at how FTP numbers tend to cluster around round values: 200W, 250W, 300W. [image]

Yeah, I noticed that. Clear sign of people hitting landmark values.

I sure know that if i got to 395 I’d tell people 400 :smiley:

You see the same thing in many areas. If you take marathon finishing times for example there are clear clusters just before the hour markers, half hour markers and gradually smaller peaks at the 15’s 10’s and 5’s. The powerful mix of the central governor and significant numbers. After all there’s n…

Well, one of them allows you to say you can run a sub-3 hour marathon, which makes you sound fast.

Very true. But in terms of a 1 second differential over that length of time you’d be hard pushed to argue that the performances are significantly different. In psychological terms though thats a different matter…:open_mouth:

The clustering around round numbers might not just be ‘ego’ numbers… I often round down to the hundred after i’ve been sick or injured to get back in the swing of things, before starting to up it again to the previous value once I’ve recovered.

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I sure know that if i got to 395 I’d tell people 400

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