Originally Posted by
calhoun1
Interesting, I hate to hijack, but oh well. I just input some numbers from the race I did last night into the calculator. And using a 0 slope and the average speed, I got 260-275 wattage for the race. I assume you just divide that by your body weight to get the weight/kg ratio?
Unless the race was a timetrail, that won't work unfortunately. The calculator assumes no drafting, so in the pack your average wattage would be lower than its numbers. On the other hand, if this race was fairly spurty, like a crit, then average wattage isn't a good measure of your ability anyway. Your body pays a penalty for the inconsistent pace, so the more variable the pace, the lower average wattage you can achieve. That's why "normalized power" was invented, but that's a whole 'nuther topic.