RChung

I don't pay *that* much attention to V02Max because at the elite level (which is really the only time I see good measurements of it ) the relationship between V02Max and performance isn't terribly strong. I believe there's a selection effect where most elites have V02Max's that are already pretty high so it's no longer useful for differentiating among riders. It's sort of like SAT scores in the US: overall, they tended to do an okay but not stellar job in differentiating who goes to elite schools, but if you look at students at Harvard or Stanford or Berkeley, their scores don't at all predict their grades--SAT scores were used (in part) to select the students so whatever predictive capacity they had is already used up. In cycling, especially in elite racing, V02Max has already been used to winnow the riders so it no longer predicts performance.

Also, my V02Max sucks, so there's that.