Old 03-31-09, 01:25 PM
  #388  
chrisvu05
Legs of Steel
 
chrisvu05's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: On my bike
Posts: 1,832

Bikes: Pegoretti Marcelo, Cannondale six13

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by waterrockets
The idea is to find your physiological (and to some extent psychological) limit. Then it's reproducible, and you can track improvements and compare your profile to other profiles.

I test when I'm fresh and testing is my first goal for the ride. I test early in the ride, or I take it really easy until I get to the test site (but get an appropriate warmup).
Yeah I understand the idea of tracking what you are physically capable of (like max bench for example)....I just don't think that is being a true indicator of your power except in the circumstances that you aren't racing before having to do a 1 minute power output. Can you still do 822w for 1 min WR at the end of a long hard race? I would expect you'd be lower than what you can do if you are just doing a 1 minute test. See what I'm saying? How often are you just doing 1 minute (other than in a kilo) and not having a fatigue build up before hand?
chrisvu05 is offline