Originally Posted by
absoludicrous
I looked at a couple of segments from a race a few weeks back that involved a cat 3 climb in which it took 13 min to complete and my avg heart rate during that time was 188 bpm. I don't have a power meter, so I can only go off virtual power through Strava which had it at 115% of my FTP.
Perhaps something around the 180-185 mark is closer to my real LTHR.
Thoughts?
i think your real LTHR is off(low). The problem with the 8 min LTHR is that it is hard to get right, do the 20x2 or 30 min TT LTHR test outside to confirm.