Fair enough, but what I was looking for was not a mine is bigger than yours event. There are a number of reasons I'm not thinking about throwing down in a competitive sense, not least of which is I ride one-handed, which greatly limits my ability to ride/sprint out of the saddle and I suspect would scare the **** out of someone caught along side me in a crit. That leaves time trials (no one to hurt except myself), but that's a bit of a stretch, literally and figuratively.

I came here mostly to learn what bodies approaching their seventh decade are capable of doing with focused training, nutrition, and drive, none of which I've applied to date. I just ride.

That said, the test was run on my personal bike on a trainer wearing a mask. Following about a 10 minute warm up, we started at 100w resistance and added 20w at every 2 min. interval. I went anaerobic at about 18 minutes and lasted another 7. If one of my kids was at risk, I might have been able to go on, but it sucked nonetheless. The experience gave me a whole new appreciation of what real racers do on a steady basis.

At the end of the day, the VO2 max calculated to the low 60s. I figure with some interval training, I could run it up a bit from there, but I guess that means RacerEx is not going to coach me for free.