I've Never had to try. The only time I've had a HRM issue was when I forgot to pair it at the start of the race - I got about 25% of the race completed before I took a quick pit stop to get it paired. I didn't get a DQ.
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alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
It was paired in the warm up and I didn’t notice it hadn’t paired in the pen until just before the gun. I sent them an email yesterday (cheers though Micheal 👍). I was just wondering if anyone has ever got it turned over.
I think it’s a silly rule anyway to be honest, if I just switch it on and leave it on the shelf it shows a steady 72bpm and zp doesn’t flag it. But that’s a different debate.
Happy Sunday y’all
I think it’s a silly rule anyway to be honest, if I just switch it on and leave it on the shelf it shows a steady 72bpm and zp doesn’t flag it. But that’s a different debate.
Happy Sunday y’all
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
Coming into cycling very recently, I thought that as well. It's unbelievable that you can do an all out 20 min effort and then theoretically do 95% of that for 3x longer... But yeah, seems to work for me as well.
What happens after that? Can you do 95% of 1h for 3h?
Have a look at your Power curve on Zwift.
mjd1988
Guru
On the other end of the scale thought this video was interesting from the NorCal guy (sprinter racing cat 1 in the us)
View: https://youtu.be/HGvpLzC2el4
Thought it was interesting hope much lower his peak sprint was on the turbo (up to 18% difference). @Legs you may be interested.
There is a few factors and a very good comment by gplama underneath about potential reasons other than technique.
Interesting may be overselling it, I have a fair bit of painting to do about the house so anything else is fascinating at the minute
Edit- very recent gcn video on sprinting as it happens as well!
View: https://youtu.be/mEFJwyT9Sp8
View: https://youtu.be/HGvpLzC2el4
Thought it was interesting hope much lower his peak sprint was on the turbo (up to 18% difference). @Legs you may be interested.
There is a few factors and a very good comment by gplama underneath about potential reasons other than technique.
Interesting may be overselling it, I have a fair bit of painting to do about the house so anything else is fascinating at the minute
Edit- very recent gcn video on sprinting as it happens as well!
View: https://youtu.be/mEFJwyT9Sp8
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alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
I may be an outlier, but my FTP is well above 200W (226W in early December Zwift ramp test) but I've not yet managed to sustain more than 194W for an hour either out on the road or indoors.
184W best hour for stage 1 (and I was really hanging on)
169W best hour for stage 2 (but fighting a virus, so probably shouldn't count)
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
@alex_cycles , ramp tests are an entirely different kettle of fish. I did one at the end of August that put my FTP at 318W (I bailed at just gone 420W), but my best 20-minute effort (from a Tempus Fugit TT) is 316W. You could maybe add a watt or two to that to allow for it being part of a 24-minute race rather than a 20-minute trial, but the ramp put my theoretical 20-minute power at 332W. What’s more, 318W at my then-weight of 72.5kg would give an Alpe time of 44:50!
It could be you're a short sprint type rider. Physically and mentally, its tough to hold power for an hour at 95% of FTP. Ive only done it a few times, once setting my PB up the Alpe
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Most people will push harder going up and doing that for best part of an hour probably isnt the same as being able to psh the same numbers on the flat. Not that I am jealous of your time up the Alp...
alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Yeah. Similar here. The week before I did that ramp test I did my first Zwift race. Crit city bell-end course (group C).
I gave it every-bloody-thing I had. I'd had enough after 3 laps but somehow held on for 5 more. Didn't win, but 6s back from the lead.
Anyway - that gave me 224 Watts over 22:53, which means I know I can do that for 20 minutes (and I have done 226 Watts for 20 minutes on the road once).
It strikes me that all tests are flawed. If you want to know what you can do for an hour, the best thing to test is your one-hour performance not your 20 minute performance.
But I appreciate these things are models/estimates which are more practical/easier to do than measure the full thing.I think CXRAndy's comment about the sprinty side of things might be correct though. 20-25 minutes hard effort does seem to be a sweet spot for me. Would be nice if I can train to extend that.
After posting this, I had a quick look at Strava and one of the guys I follow had just put a ride up with the comment "368 mile week.") Put me in my place
