Originally Posted by
Hill160881
Man that final climb is nothing to the one 2/3 the way in. It was 20% and rutted up and just kept going with little pause. Basically once you start that climb it on till the end and it’s the other side than last year. It was a rude awakening since I have ridden last years rout twice now.
I highly recommend anyone riding it this year relax on the first half as it’s pretty easy compared to the last half.
What would be a good guess on my normalized FTP wastage? I feel my steady state ftp to be somewhere around 200-210 and my normalized on this corse is around 250w? Is that way off? If I can do 230 for 2 hours and 18 min then wouldn’t my 1 hour be a little higher?
For me, the climb itself wasn't so hard, just that I was thrashed after nearly 5 hours of racing. On the XL, there was a single track climb near the beginning of the loop that was much more difficult than the final climb, but that came at around miles 10ish and 40ish...so a different beast than at mile 65.
If you have a 230 normalized for more than 2 hours, I'd assume your FTP to be higher than 210. However, the caveat to this is, you being a punchy rider may skew the numbers. Some coaches will use the best 1 hour normalized for an estimate on FTP, but like I said, the numbers might be skewed a bit.
Me personally, I use the Intervals.icu site to analyze power data. One of the functions of it, is that it gives a FTP estimate, that I find close to the number that I can achieve via typical FTP testing. I typically don't even do FTP tests anymore, I'll just train off the estimate as well as feel.