Originally Posted by
patentcad
You have just discovered one of the major benefits of doing TTs with a PM. It reminds you to keep the watts cranked on downgrades. As you noticed, they watts naturally drop off quite a bit unless you focus on sustaining them, and this can cost you quite a bit of speed in a TT.
+1 Once you get your FTP you may take it down a notch on the climbs to keep from exceeding FTP for too long and crank it on the descents, when everyone else is letting up. GL