Originally Posted by
lambo_vt
Hardly an assertion; it's simple physics. Further, I never said "I think".
For someone who rides regularly, their power output is mostly as good as it's going to get. Say I can put out an average of 150 W over a certain time period... that equates to a certain speed over a given course. If I add drag through more weight, worse aerodynamics, whatever, my power output doesn't change - I'm still producing 150 W - but I go slower.
Adding weight doesn't change your exertion level (if you're giving it 100% in a training sense anyway), it just makes you go slower. You can go slower with more weight or go faster with less - you get the same workout.
If you don't believe me or any of the others here, go pose this same question in the Road forum... they'll be sure to educate you.
Let me be clear- I don't think people understood my point, with perhaps the exception of UKE, I did not say that riding with 10 pounds will make you faster with 10 pounds, but that after you remove the 10 pounds, having trained with it for so long, you will have more power. That’s my point. No one said anything about 10 pounds making you more powerful and faster while it’s on. You have to take it off and then do the Triathlon. Also, your point still remains just as much of an assertion as mine. The difference is that I am willing to admit it.
Respectfully
Jack