Pacing Effort for Upcoming Field Test
Ended up doing a 32 minute field test. Felt really good, later into the effort I could feel the breathing/HR tipping point when spending 30-ish seconds above 290-300. Could have easily extended this well past 32 minutes.
Two weeks ago my coach had me pace a 10-min effort at what I thought I could do for 20-min. Turned out 11-min at 290W, and I definitely had locomotive breath on that one so could have suffered out to 20-minutes above threshold. So I figured my FTP was around 275 and so I did a longer TT style effort today to find the tipping point.
This was the 2nd to last workout at the end of a 3 week block. Only reason to go 45+ minutes was to get better estimates from my analysis tools. Garmin awarded me 264, Xert put me at 264, Intervals at 271, WKO at 269. Algorithms shmalgorithms, I was holding steady at 276 and could have pushed this out longer. 275 it is.