Originally Posted by
torque cyclist
at higher speeds though, doesn't aero provide more of a challenge then weight?
Yeah, but you spend more time going slow. Like up a hill, where weight really matters.
Let's say I lose 1 min on a climb up a 10% hill to a good climber. Yeah, I'll go a lot faster than him on the descent. But because we're both going a lot faster, I'll only make up 15 sec of the minute I lost on the climb.
Another thing that's IMO more important than hitting huge anaerobic power numbers is being able to hit decent ones a whole lot of times and recover quickly after doing so.