Originally Posted by echappist

You may think you can be your own lexicographer, but that doesn't make you correct. An anaerobic effort has a standard definition, full stop.

A true anaerobic effort doesn't go much further than 2 minutes, maybe 2.5 if you are really anaerobically gifted. That you are conflating a 4 min effort to be anaerobic suggests that you have no idea what anaerobic means. FYI, a 4.5 min effort at 120%+ is still, by definition, an aerobic effort; it's known as individual pursuit in some circles.

Last year in one crit i did 110% AP (115% NP) for the last 10 minutes to get in the break that stayed away in a very tough crit. The first 3.3 min of the move was at 123%. Guess what, that's still an aerobic effort because had it been truly anaerobic, i'd have blown the gasket by the 4th minute and probably would have been too shattered to even latch onto the field.