I’m curious about how some people can have very different power profiles: I can do a steady climb quite well but i have the sprint of a 5 year old girl, for instance. So as a bit of fun it would be interesting to see what is the typical TR athlete’s fastest time up the Alpe du Zwift and what was your FTP or W/Kg at the time you did it?
I’ll start:
I did it recently in 43:54 @ 332W average. At the time my FTP was 317 @ 74Kg.
I just tried to check on strava and it looks like all my times have been wiped out (or the segment changed or something). I went under 50m in 2021 right before leadville. I can’t recall exact time but it was 305 watts at ~74kg. I think it was ~48minutes. It’s a solid route to do a fitness test and cofirm your ~1hour power.
41:25 at 397 W/85 kg which did hurt a lot. I had maybe the best legs of the season as I had break from hard training after the last race. Now I am a bit lighter, but I won’t try it before the season is done.
59:40 but I’ve never done it not doing a TrainerRoad workout. I got this time doing Leconte which had a couple five minute rest intervals where you’re pretty much going nowhere.
Noys. Gone are the days of keeping it to yourself. I did it, I will talk about it.
I never done an isolated full gas Alpe. But we rode it as a part of FRR world tour series on Zwift. Best stage racing on Zwift. I expect it to get only more popular.
It was a time trial starting far from alpe so a 25min effort before hitting the climb.
39:57 340w(5.23) w at 65kg
Ftp was around 350w or 5.4 or so.
41:44 322W - 16.2.20 FTP probably 310-315 at about 65-66kg.
I’d give my right arm for legs that good now. . I do think I could have got that under 40 minutes about 3-5 months later. I did 298w for two hours around that time.