Originally Posted by
bostongarden
Good stuff JKS, and, good luck!
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Thanks! It was just a gorgeous day here in Franklin, TN. My lovely wife agreed to let me take an hour this afternoon and get one more ride in before surgery tomorrow. So what does a sane person do on such a nice day? Go enjoy a nice ride and scenery? Or go hurt himself? Hmmmm...how about a 60 minute TT to determine FTP before being off for 6-8 weeks?
I had estimated my FTP at 225 after one ride with the powertap. I had my LTHR estimated at 164 for training previously. Well, here's the result. It's a little short of an hour as I actually finished faster than I expected (personal best). But it looks like my estimates were dead nuts on. Plus I got to practice pacing for an hour TT. I think I did a pretty good job. I felt like I might blow up about 2/3 in but kept pushing. In fact, I negative split the ride (219w vs 227w). I'm very happy with that considering I'm so new with the powertap. Plus a personal best over this route. Good way to have a last ride for a while. Avg. power - 223, Norm power - 224, avg hr 164. So here it is. I get to post fancy graphs.