After riding today I was looking at the stats on Strava. I got a new
PR on a segment that I've ridden through 2-4 times. It's all well and good, I'm not fast, will never be fast and don't expect to have any KOM's. While looking at the complete leader board (my
PR put me 100 out 111) I noticed how much faster the 2 KOM and QOM are, QOM at 1:52 KOM at 1:57 on the same day compared to my 4:56 for 1 mile at 1% grade. As I said I know I'm not fast but these 2 are so much faster than the fast people and then I notice they are listed at 731 watts for the QOM and 646 watts for KOM. Is that possible, to put out that kind of power for that long? It seems I watched a TDF champion do a power test and he could put out that kind of power for more than a few seconds at a time, averaging like under 500 watts IIRC.