Just started riding with a Quarq and while I should probably ignore the data other than for casual reference at this point who can really do that?
Went out to ride a couple hill repeats today and as it happens they take me about 20 mins. There was about a 25 min warm up with the occasional hard short effort to get there and the two climbs came in at:
#1: 21:13 mins | 13.4 mph | 160 bpm | 216 watts | 88 rpm
#2: 21:35 mins | 13.2 mph | 160 bpm | 209 watts | 88 rpm
I only have three rides in there (totalling about 7 hours of riding) but Golden Cheetah seems to think my CP number is 250 (which I thought was high). However, if I touch the graph where the 20m mark is the value there is 180 watts, and at the 1hr mark it goes down to 170 watts.
If you asked if I could have gone faster with a gun to my head perhaps but I think they represented pretty maximal efforts. Can I assume from these that my FTP number (which I want simply to set training zones for indoor workouts this fall/winter) is somewhere in the 200 watt range at this point? Aside from having the power output of a cocker spaniel (compared to most public ST numbers) is my logic here sound?
Can someone help me make sense of these (admittedly limited) numbers?
Went out to ride a couple hill repeats today and as it happens they take me about 20 mins. There was about a 25 min warm up with the occasional hard short effort to get there and the two climbs came in at:
#1: 21:13 mins | 13.4 mph | 160 bpm | 216 watts | 88 rpm
#2: 21:35 mins | 13.2 mph | 160 bpm | 209 watts | 88 rpm
I only have three rides in there (totalling about 7 hours of riding) but Golden Cheetah seems to think my CP number is 250 (which I thought was high). However, if I touch the graph where the 20m mark is the value there is 180 watts, and at the 1hr mark it goes down to 170 watts.
If you asked if I could have gone faster with a gun to my head perhaps but I think they represented pretty maximal efforts. Can I assume from these that my FTP number (which I want simply to set training zones for indoor workouts this fall/winter) is somewhere in the 200 watt range at this point? Aside from having the power output of a cocker spaniel (compared to most public ST numbers) is my logic here sound?
Can someone help me make sense of these (admittedly limited) numbers?