Hey everyone, I was fortunate to have borrowed my friends powertap. I've been playing with the 1minute, 5minute, 20 minute efforts. It's frckin hard to keep that wattage up!!!
I was reading some of the numbers Fabian can hit, and other top pros, how crazy is that. I think one report was Cancellara at the Lndon Prologue averaged like 566 watts!!! I can't even do that for a minute, he rode that course in 8' 51". That's mind blowing power!
Anyway, I was just curious as to what are the kind of numbers are other people were reaching on their power meters. Let me know, I think it'd be kind of neat. Oh, and put your catgory down too.
Here are my numbers from this year. I'm a CAT 3 racer who concentrates mostly on TT's, but have a descent sprint. Also, take into account I'm a larger rider (190 in race shape) so my numbers are not as high when you take a w/kg aspect to power.
Most of these numbers are taken either from races or group rides and I've never done a full on 30 sec, 1 min, 5 min, 10 min, etc...interval to find my actual max. The closest was probably during my 20 minute power number since that was an all out climb...but was actually longer than 20 minutes...I held 390 watts for 22:30 on that effort.
My goal next year is to get my 20 minute power into the 420 watt range since I'm going to concentrate on TT's more than road racing, and do a little MTB racing on the side as well.
Just to put things in a real world context, here are the average power numbers from Dan Schmatz that he generated winning the Gateway Cup Pro overall including three of the four races this year:
Generating big wattage is fun for bragging, but it seems to me races are mostly won by smart riding and unfortunately that's not something most folks spend much time working on.
Just to put things in a real world context, here are the average power numbers from Dan Schmatz that he generated winning the Gateway Cup Pro overall including three of the four races this year:
Generating big wattage is fun for bragging, but it seems to me races are mostly won by smart riding and unfortunately that's not something most folks spend much time working on.
Actually, that just shows the power of drafting :idea: and are average not peak power outputs.
Most road races I compete in my average wattage is usually in the 240 - 260 watt range, because I spend a lot of time drafting other riders, thus saving energy for when it's needed. However if a riders peak output is only 246 watts...they are not going to win any races...well, maybe kiddie races.
To win a race, you need to be able to generate large wattage outputs at the "Right" times, which does require some racing knowlede...but if you can't put out those high numbers, chances are you're not going to be able to hold the wheel when the pack takes off...and you are off the back rather quickly and out of the race.
i dont have a PT.....tried my friends wheel on a tour we did once. I was pretty sore and tired, I have no idea how or what these numbers suggest. I would like to try it again when I'm feeling a little fresher.
10 second power - pretty high, for 5 seconds
1 minute power - enough to stay in a breakaway.... for 30 seconds
5 minute power - garbage
20 minute power - who can turn the cranks for 20 minutes?
Anyone know FOR SURE how the cyclingpeaks style software measures the 20min -60efforts? Does it search that particular file and find the highest numbers and then average them all based on the 20min selection (in other words does it line all your samples up from highest to lowest and then aversage them based on the length of sample you want to show 'peak power' for?
1sec: 1423 w/kg: 20.04
5 sec: 1365 w/kg: 19.22
10 sec: 1249
20 sec: 1024
30 sec: 902
1 min: 709 w/kg: 10
5 min: 464 w/kg 6.5
10 min: 400
20 min: 369 w/kg: 5.2
1 hour: 327 w/kg: 4.6 (really hard for me to commit to a full one hour test, so I don't have a good number for this)
I weight from 70-72 kg throughout the season, depending on how lazy I get with me diet and I'm a cat 2, though I set most of these numbers earlier in the year when I was a 3, and the sprint numbers were from last season when I was a 5. This season my sprint numbers are down about 4-5% because I've been focusing on threshold stuff. Got my Vo2 tested last year and I was in the low 70s from what I remember.
Edit: Opps, 5 min is actually 434, i was looking at a different number. Comes out to 6.11 w/kg
I changed up my profile, now it says racer :thumbsup:
Vo2 measured about 2 weeks ago was 83 ml/kg/min at altitude, with a VO2 wattage of 500.
This past season was my 3rd year racing, I started when I was 16. I will be racing with a pro team next season and hopefully I will be able to make it to the protour level someday .
Anyone know FOR SURE how the cyclingpeaks style software measures the 20min -60efforts? Does it search that particular file and find the highest numbers and then average them all based on the 20min selection (in other words does it line all your samples up from highest to lowest and then aversage them based on the length of sample you want to show 'peak power' for?
It takes your highest 20 minute (or 1, 5, 10, 30, 60 minute) continuous power output...where ever that takes place during your ride.
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