39kph on 206 watts. Drafting = fun

don't even have to draft to do that. see "abu" in the 40k results thread!

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
Aeroweenie.com -Compendium of Aero Data and Knowledge
Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

No kidding? That must be one slickendy position and attention to detail.

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No choice, but to be aero when you have an engine as small as mine.

I went sub-hour for a 40K TT on 205 watts - it does help if the course is at 5000 feet...

wow, i'm surprised that they are showing the data of a premier rider as opposed to that of a domestique

anyways, those number, per se, are nothing special. Gerros dialed it up to 1300W (being 20lbs lighter) at the end of a nearly 7-hr long race to win the MSR. I think in the last 2:20 of MSR, he did 400W. Albasini did ~550W for 3 minutes for the final ascent of the Mur de Huuy.

what that really shows is how hard the last 10-15km must have been quite hard if this was all the riders got. sustaining 500W for 2 minutes shouldn't be too hard, yet only a few were able to follow Cancellara's wheel. A lot of matches must have been burned during the run-in

the talent at Tdf is on another level!

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The entire event (IM) is like "death by 1000 cuts" and the best race is minimizing all those cuts and losing less blood than the other guy. - Dev

this.

500w for 2 minutes should be a cake walk for any cat 1 rider let alone a pro. And a 12xx watt sprint at the end of any race is quite low. Must have been a brutal day.

I'd bet there are plenty of guys on ST that could do those numbers...after a 20 min warm up :)

keep in mind the body mass, though it looks like sagan is 160lbs.

I might be able to do 500watts for 2 minutes at 175lbs. I can definitely do the 1,200 watt peak.

But I never ever ever in my life would have been there at the end of the day to try =)

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
Aeroweenie.com -Compendium of Aero Data and Knowledge
Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

Gonna have to DevPaul you there.

awesome, I love an internet challenge!
my best so far is 446 powertap watts, golden cheetah thinks I should be able to do 489.

I will give it a try this week!

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
Aeroweenie.com -Compendium of Aero Data and Knowledge
Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

All in good fun plus, given your love of strava-ing I know you're more than up to the challenge.

I sure wish I could do what golden cheetah *thinks* i can do!

I can when its less than 10 minutes

I can not when it is more!

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
Aeroweenie.com -Compendium of Aero Data and Knowledge
Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

How do you see your cp below 2 minutes? My little dotted line stops about 2 minutes.

Mine stops at 1:22. Not sure how it is plotted.

Don't forget to ride for 5 hrs before doing the test :)

Not part of the challenge. It's obvious none of us could do that after 5 hrs of hard riding. I just said, do 500 watts for 2 minutes. Boom, challenge criteria established.

LOL! I can average 900 watts for about 1 second.... These kids are animals....

That was a wild finish, for sure. I couldn't believe Cancellara was dragging his big butt up that hill that fast. He's, what, about 175 to 180 lbs?

-Robert

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Sounds painful. Turns out my best two minutes came by accident and included a 1min test up a hill. I wouldn't enjoy extending my 1min test for another minute.

The easiest way would be to use some ridiculous slope number on an SRM....then everyone can become a 1000W for 2 minutes internet hero....just don't let anyone know what the slope number was.....or just go to another planet where gravity no longer presents that 9.8 m/s^^2 (like going to a small planet like Mercury)....suddenly you'll can have a new definiton of Newtons (in your new frame of reference) in the N-m/s part of definition of power....now you're laughing. You can be a stud on Mercury and claim hero status on Earth as long as no one knew you did it on Mercury :-)....just don't tell anyone that the acceleration due to gravity is 3.7 m/s^^s rather than 9.8.

Should we derate all numbers posted on ST by the Mercury normalization factor to get the real amount....or should we go with the 8.87 number of Venus....how honest are ST'ers. I'd like to be believe that no one is doing a Neil Armstrong 1. 624 m/s^^s moonwalk around here :-)

OK, carry on with the Sagan thing....