MTM wrote:
Maybe it's just for logistic reasons that you usually come down to low altitude a week or so beforehand - I guess often this week will include travelling to your race.
Never had that problem in planes (though I have only flown overnight a couple of times, so not much statistics in that), but I hope I can even half of your bump in FTP - getting the full 25W would get me stoked.
What do you do regarding the posibility for too low oxygen levels, e.g. at a power outage? Do you have some kind of battery-driven alert to wake you up?
For travel, I leave the tent at home but just get on the plane - no planned period for "coming down", that happens automatically. After two weeks out of the tent I feel the FTP increase is mostly gone.
2 weeks to adapt in the tent :-)
2 weeks to lose the adaptation. :-(
I have no power outage alarm; if the tent stops, then slowly normal air seeps into the tent through the cracks. There is no possibility of too little oxygen.
Remember, it's just a typical tent: ripstop nylon and normal zippers, it's not air tight. In fact, it has to leak a little bit because the incoming low O2 air has to slowly move out the normal (high O2) air during the whole time the generator is operating.
Damon Rinard
Engineering Manager,
CSG Road Engineering Department
Cannondale & GT Bicycles
(ex-Cervelo, ex-Trek, ex-Velomax, ex-Kestrel)