Dr. Coggan,
I haven't forgotten about your offer, I've just been on vacation and slammed at work the last couple weeks.

Would I need to send you a batch of data from the entire workout, or would I just need to extract the 5s/1min/5min/20min max avg. power numbers from each of my rides for the last couple months and send you an excel chart with that info (sorted by date maybe)?

Confused by this (bold bit). Frontal area scales to mass^0.67-0.75, if VO2max did likewise then the small guys would be as fast on the flat as the big guys (W/CdA the same), give or take that their bike is probably a greater proportion of total drag. If VO2 scales to mass ^1 then the big guys are faster on the flat, but can also climb as well as the, er, climbers (identical W/kg). Somewhere (and it regularly annoys me that I can't find where I've saved it) I have a paper indicating that W/kg scales to mass^~0.9 IIRC, which would explain climbing vs flat speed, assuming drag coefficients of riders are similar regardless of size. Any thoughts?

Of course, the whole concept of power profiling (and it's off-spring, fatigue profiling) has now been made obsolete by the auto-phenotyping made possible by the WKO4 power-duration model.

Have I ever (offered to) modeled your power-duration data? If not, I'd be happy to do it...sounds like you know that you're a sprinter, but it might be interesting to see what an objective analysis shows.

It's odd...mine looks like a bell...

I managed to get a mean max power chart out of Training Peaks. Is there any way to copy this data out of TP or is it only WKO+ 3.0 that will allow a "copy raw" operation?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jEsyQ8LkKkdkIwWjNGNG51cjQ/view?usp=sharing


I haven't seen a way to change the y-axis from W to W/kg, but my weight is ~149 to 150lb.

I meant when looking at where I fit in the table.

I meant when looking at where I fit in the table.

I'm low in the 5secs, and 1min, high in the 5min and lower in the FTP, although, my experience suggests that it's not the case.