For real, I’m going to do it. But not this week.
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-Mark
Yeah, he’s pretty adamant in dispelling that on the message boards. The duration could be from 40mins to over an hour.
When his missus suggested introducing some “50 shades of grey stuff” he really took it the wrong way
Maybe, but that’s another thread. This thread is about accepting the challenge to hold the power number generated by a recent ramp test for as long as possible. Not to exceed 1 hour. Unless you want to.
All this other business about whether or not FTP is an Hour Power or even whether or not FTP is a reasonable estimation of any sort of lactate threshold is some other thread. This thread is more about screwing around for fun.
And also about whether or not Chris21 actually exists.
I have already done it once indoor.
I was more meaning that it has traditionally been perceived by the more lay public as hour power, and often presented as such for simplicity’s sake. I could point to hundreds of articles in on cycling websites and in cycling magazines that have simplified to just say FTP = hour power, even though that’s not really what it is.
well I’m attempting Lamarck today @ 295w as a test after doing SSB2HV based on 285. Pray for me! lol
I’ll probably time it so I can jump on a zwift race and maybe that’ll serve as slight motivation to not crumble!
Think again:
They keep saying that FTP isn’t supposed to be hour power, yet 1 hour at FTP is TSS of 100… All TSS is normalized to doing 1 hour at FTP.
What if I told you that NP and TSS are just metrics built on assumptions?
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This thread is about accepting the challenge to hold the power number generated by a recent ramp test for as long as possible
Put me down for two hours!
How did you find that? What is going on. Nothing is real anymore.
That’s fine and all… just pointing out that the waters were not muddied all on their own. That assumption that 1 hour TT = 100 TSS is a big source of why people would think FTP = hour power.
As for my contribution towards this thread. I don’t ramp test any more, but holding my manually set FTP for 1 hour indoors (on rollers in my case) would be very, very, very hard.
My ego hates the ramp test results, but loves it for this challenge
Global Hour Record day?
- I’m in
- No eff’n way
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I would do this.
But I also haven’t given up alcohol like many of you. And am on my 4th glass of wine this evening.
Check back with me in the morning… or, better yet, don’t.
All of my best cycling commitments started exactly this way.