Originally Posted by himespau

IF you can have your 1-3 minute power a LOT higher than your 12 minute power (they use a variation of the traditional CP calculation for zFTP) you can end up in your pen with a lot higher 20 minute power and a LOT higher 1 minute power than your opponents. Just never doing long climbs or races that require a huge 12 minute effort will accomplish much the same goal. I guess it's not sandbagging in the traditional sense, but it is manipulating your power so I have seen people with 3.7-3.8 W/kg 20 minute power riding in the Cs because their 1-3 minute power is so high even in Cat enforcement races.