Originally Posted by oboeguy
BTW, IIRC, Lance's "sustainable" wattage is like 470+ as computed by Dr. Ferrari. The doc would have him ride this 1km 10% climb at different wattages, prick his finger to get a blood lactate reading, and then some kind of data fit to compute the sustainable wattage (presumably a linear least squares fit or something like that). I read this in either "23 Days in July" or "Lance Armstrong's War". I can't remember which because I read them one after the other.
I read that in Lance Armstrong's War too, pretty good book. I've never tested my peak wattage, but now I'm curious to know. How did you guys test yours? Lab? Powertap?