Originally Posted by grolby

Team training session (indoors). Tonight was a "race," one hour of various cadences and jumps according to the instructor, while trying to do the best average W/kg for the session possible. We had a bit of a contest going, $2 in the pot, beer to the winner. I didn't win, but I did average 3.5 W/kg for the hour. Not my true FTP, but if anything slightly lower thanks to all the accelerations we did. I tested at 3.25 for 20 minutes in January, so I'm pretty damn pleased. And not just for this coming season, that's a foundation to build on for the future. For context: that's at least 20 W added to all my zones as determined in January, and when you're starting at 189, that's a fair amount of increase. Very happy.