Originally Posted by gerundium

protocol used is start the first block at 1.6 w/kg and add 0.4 w/kg every 6 minutes. This is a very slow protocol so quite good to dermine your base pace, tempo and threshold zones but you will probably not reach high max values on it. I found it a lot less mentally draining because it's basically a long tempo session with a short supra treshold effort at the end. And it has been very useful for guiding my training in the base period focussing on tempo and endurance rides mostly.


EDIT: oh and the results have intermediate values as well. basically they take the fraction of the time you held the latest block and interpolate between two. so if you fail 4 minutes into the 5.6 w/kg block your result would be 5.2 + (4/6)*0.4 = 5.466