Using Power Curve to Identify Strengths & Weaknesses

Well, the title of the thread is that you want to identify your strengths and weaknesses, and my point is that you can’t tell whether an ability of yours is a strength without having a purpose in mind.

The only thing you can do at this point is look at power charts that tell you where your relative strengths lie. But that only tells you about your abilities, not whether your abilities are actual strengths, that depends on the type of events and riding that you do. Like I said, a strong sprint doesn’t tell you whether you’ll be good at a TT.

Your power is all over the place, I don’t think this will be a good test for maximizing your power over a given time. The best you can do is a single, long, sustained climb. 1-hour climbs are rare in most places, where I live we have one that is 45-50 km away. Even then, I don’t think you’d necessarily pace such a climb at roughly constant power, you’d pace to maximize momentum and ultimately, speed.