I've since purchased a powermeter and found the KK road machine equation to be pretty darn close to the same readings.
really? interesting to me. anyone else have thoughts on this? my watts were significantly higher with the KK equation vs. a couple of tests i did on a WattBike and a CycleOps stationary bike, and i was never sure which to trust. it'd be cool if KK was right, though...haha.
OP - don't mean to hijack the thread. as jmX said, 20 min is probably most common. 1 hour is most accurate for determining threshold, though, since functional threshold power - FTP - is actually supposed to be max sustained power for 1 hour.