This is what I wanted to know. I wanted a flat course so I could more freely do intervals (20 min power test, max power, etc)... but the guy didn't set it up for that. It wasn't calibrated in any way, so I suppose the number itself isn't a good reference at all.

Clearly alot more goes into an actual race, I just wanted to have an idea of the power I was putting out and I have a general reference now - although the downhills skew the average as I ran out of gear/got out of my optimal cadence range for extended periods of time and generally put out less power on them.

My goal is to do a 40k in less than an hour - so this is working toward that goal. I have a 3.6 mile loop I love to ride out in Matteson that I will attempt a real hour test next week. Overall all I care about is what the stopwatch says and what the race results are (this is my first year)