My T100 re-rides got in the way again. Did four this afternoon.Nope, wasnt happening - bailed again - need more recovery time!!
. But by heck did it 
. Still going in the right direction performance wise 
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Great race to watch. You two were both pushing crazy watts.sorry about that, honestly didn't bail.New laptop ran out of juice. Note to self-don't believe battery run times.
absolutely spent. Could feel Bill bearing down on me all the time. Tried to keep him at bay but who am I kidding!
No reason why not, but I expect your weight would climb a little, as you would have to put on more muscle to increase power and it doesn't sound like you have much fat to lose!
Many of us "oldies" on here quickly trained up to somewhere between 3 and 4 watts per Kg, some, like me, after a lifetime of little exercise. No reason why you shouldn't be able to do the same, so sustained averages over 200W should be well within your capability, health and fitness allowing.
This is assuming you are of the male persuasion, if not I would expect slightly less watts/kg, but still no reason why you should not get up there.
On flat'ish races I would expect you to have a harder time, as straight power is an advantage and weight less critical, but on courses like the mountain goat leagues your weight will be a positive advantage, and you will not need anywhere near as much power to keep up with most of us, who tend to be around 80Kg or more.
Last winter I went from struggling to average 200W over a 20 minute FTP test to managing just over 300W for the same 20 minute FTP test. We have all seen similar improvements in many chain gang and mount goat contestants from last winter to this.
Repeatedly sweating up the long Mountain Goat climbs as hard as I could seemed the quickest way to increase sustained power outputs ...
Just take care not to over do it, it be quite a strain on your body!
Geoff
back at you) I took forever to catch you then I think I got lucky on a slingshot manoeuvre which you didn't catch. I had hoped to wear you out but it didn't seem to be working. When you disappeared I thought it was your connection gone and you'd appear again, but I had other worries having to defend from LB not too far behind me. You seemed to come back again but I didn't know where you were. Then I got a message that you'd left the session again and that I was in 2nd place so I don't know what was going on there.
.What it seems to be saying is, if you keep the power at your current watts then this is how much time you have left. It seems to 'look forward' to the rest of the course, and extrapolate your current power to the hills, flats etc that is coming up.
I suppose, in some ways, it depends what each person wants out of the sessions. I'm not looking to win (it's a good job really!!!!) but what I am looking at is how I am doing compared to my previous rides, and compared to others whose rides are of a similar speed/time. For me it's all about relatives - not the ones that turn up unexpected at Xmas and you haven't bought them a present, but the relative times compared to my previous rides. But that's just me
No point going too fast ... you miss those nice vistasI'm looking to make the indoor rides a bit more fun which to me looks like it will be near the back at a pace I like to ride looking at the scenery occasionally
Wow that was so hard. Bob, you seem to have jumped up in fitness lately.(
Great race and very tough though. Thanks for the comments from people watching
