Originally Posted by flythebike
Well I suppose you're right, but I don't know about OTB in a 5 race. I don't really train with watts, though I have had a fitness test. My max wattage at exhaustion was like 420 or something, so 430 didn't sound bad to me - but the test started at 100 watts and went up 20 watts every minute, so by the time I was a max wattage I had been over threshold for 6 minutes. I mean, I'm a cat 3 with the points to cat up to 2 so I realize among racers he isn't like Lance but those numbers aren't that bad if he kept going 290 for a lot longer, anyway - but at that point he had dusted the guy.
Everybody just loves to pick on R600DA. I personally think it is annoying as heck when other people start racing you when you're just doing your thing. So that is why I took his side.
Flythebike, that would indicate to me that your LT watts are somewhere in the mid 300's, consistent with an average sized Cat 3. I'd bet your 30 second critical power would be more like 600 to 700 watts. Way above R600's 290 for 5 minutes, and 430 for 30 seconds.
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