I'm amazed at how quickly my form is coming along. A couple of my training partners are really starting to have trouble hanging on.

Today I was working the SST, and found myself in the 350-380W zone enough times that I zeroed the PowerTap in disbelief. I wasn't hitting it too hard, but was getting the power up there.

The ride was just under an hour:
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9894/postqa7.png

Season will be here in April ... and I'm working on getting a little bit faster. It's all about spinning classes this winter!!

Oh hell yes! It's time to move.

That's pretty impressive. I wasn't really going for SST this morning but it kind of had some SST'ish parts to it. I am consistently hitting higher power for longer periods. There is a pretty distinct dropoff at 290 now, which I have been seeing for my last several rides. Movin' on up ;)

http://www.photoscene.com/kimandsteve/images/4423.png

What's the % on the Y axis?

% of ride time in that power bin

My highest bin of 7.8% @ 260-270 represents 3:16

Looks like waterrockets likes to hang out at 100 watts higher than you, umd.

He has about 30 pounds on me too...

Well, not fast, but faster.

Why would I be getting fast now? My A races are still >5 months away.

Right now I am getting base-trained.

+1, this is a big part of it.

I re-did the chart as W/kg, with a 0.1 increment. The last bar before the big drop (360-370W) is 4.7-4.8 W/kg. If I weighed what UMD does, that would put me at 304W. He's doing awesome for a racer with only a couple seasons under his belt, and is above where I was during the 2008 season...

With all of this power data, people will soon create virtual bike races and just stay home on weekends.

That's pretty much what BF is, right? ;)

I'm going to make a chart

I'm getting extremely fast. Its amazing how fast I can go outside straight to the car, and promptly back in sub-30 celsius temperatures.

Alternate with 12oz curls.... tis the season for cross training you know.

im there. lets race right now! i hate winter.

Very nice plot. It looks rather Gaussian.

My wife is getting faster, does that count?

If "foundation" means gaining a bunch of weight, then I'm building a foundation too.

I figure propelling the extra weight will require that much more work, resulting in greater strength, resulting in greater speeds. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I got faster. My legs are also getting stronger and are becoming more toned.

Ya, I'm superfast.

High-speed quad up...
Carving the fall line down.

I added 15 pounds to my ass and commute swaddled in a another 10 pounds of winter gear on 1kg studded tires @45PSi mounted to a 35# MTB. I take the long way home. I'm getting quite slow, but, juts imagine the wattage.