Originally Posted by
dsmyth12
What is actually a better measure of your power, normalised or average? For example, my best 20 minute power done during a ride out on the road is 303 watts but the normalised power for that segment was 335 watts. The terrain could probably be described as rolling hills.
To estimate your FTP you need to take average power. Normalized power is a measure for how much stress you incurred.
If Normalized Power is much higher than average power, it does mean you could have produced a higher average power by being more constant.