Originally Posted by
Dunbar
You're entitled to your opinion. I'm mainly taking issue with your vehement insistence that my FTP must be 220 (or whatever your latest estimate is) when my data suggests otherwise. There are many ways to estimate FTP:
Andy Coggan's Seven Deadly Sins
How to determine your Functional Threshold Power
In decreasing order of reliability:
- from the average power during a ~1 h TT (the best predictor of performance is performance itself).
- from the power that you can routinely generate during long intervals done in training.
- using critical power testing and analysis.
- based on normalized power from a hard ~1 h race.
- from blood lactate measurements (better or worse, depending on how it is done).
- from power distribution profile from multiple rides.
- from inspection of a ride file.
what is clear is that your FTP seems directly linked to your sense of self. That's the only possible explanation for your vehement stance despite all the evidence to the contrary. Let's start here - if it isn't an over-estimation of your FTP, or some sort of respiratory condition, what else could it possibly be? Why not do the test as suggested and we can put this discussion to bed?