Originally Posted by
Dunbar
25w distribution from an interval session vs an easy ride. It should be pretty clear from looking at the two I'm not grossly overestimating my FTP.
Gotta take issue with this....no it's not. It's is actually meaningless in a vacuum. We don't have any information on the length/duration or consistency of the intervals. I can easily product histograms with that much power in each bucket and still have an ftp of roughly 200. Seriously. I don't think you're clear on what FTP really stands for. It's not CP or critical power at a duration (outside of 60 min of course).
In other words you can easily have an FTP of 200 but still be able to do 10x3 minutes at 300 in a 2 hour ride for 30 minutes at 300 ...but averaging 200 over 2 hours.....
Honestly that looks eerily like a lot of my rides and while my ftp has ranged from 210-270 over the years....I'd call your FTP more like 220 reviewing this file.
Hell my FTP is 210 right now but I can crank out 1300W for 15 seconds. Peak power at a given time interval (CP) outside of 60 minutes is not FTP.