What metric am I missing

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@grwoolf

One of my favorite fitness tests is a “tired 20” where you do a 20 minute max effort after doing ~2500kjs of hard work prior.

That was one of the additional metrics suggested to me as well as workouts to improve this metric (basically sweet spot intervals after 2,000+ kJ of work).

@grwoolf

I’ve never seen a power curve of NP vs. time in any tool, so I assume it’s either not interesting to others or the math is hard. I just track it informally by comparing past races and training rides an see what my NP is for various durations and types of efforts. As an example for a 100+ mile gravel race, I’ll often look at NP for the first hour, the last hour, and for the entire duration of the race (which often tells the story of how I performed in the race).

That’s a good observation, very curious. It indeed sounds like a good fatigue meter.