Originally Posted by
DaveWC
I can only tell you what I did & why. I don't understand the relevance of you stating what I should have been able to do. I can state what I will try & do next time, and I've already stated that.
Here's last Saturday's workout:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/211996665
There are 4 instances where my cadence dropped for seconds because of lights or slowing down for brutal railroad tracks over a span of 2 hours 54 minutes, average wattage 247w, NP 273w, average HR 153, overall max HR 180, max HR during ride 169. You tell me.
That ride looks nothing like what I expected from the way you described your FTP test.
From that, I'd think that you wouldn't have had any problems holding steady power in your test, although to be complete, connect.garmin.com really isn't detailed enough to look at really short data intervals. For that, ridewithgps.com is better IMO - you can zoom down to as short a segment as your device records - usually 1 sec.
As stated by another poster, if you really want to get deeper into this, get a coach.