Average watts/kilo for elite AGers in Ironman

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For elite AG and pro racers for Ironman distance what is your average watts/kilo for the race, how does that correspond to your % of threshold? Thanks

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for the elites i would assume >5 watts/kg being raced at ~80% of their FTP
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For AGers it’s more like 4 W/kg. (EDIT: That’s FTP, not IM output.) I may not be all that “elite”, but at 160 lbs and with a threshold somewhere under 300 W I’ve had the fastest bike split in my AG at IMLP on 205 W average and ridden 2:10 at the Boulder 70.3 on 240 W average.

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I’d say a pretty good w/kg for an AG’er for IM would be around 3.0. My FTP/CP is around 330 watts and around 4.3 w/kg, and I’ve had near top bike splits in most of my races up to HIM this year. Hoping it’ll carry over to Beach2Battleship for me in about two months.

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For AGers it’s more like 4 W/kg. (EDIT: That’s FTP, not IM output.) I may not be all that “elite”, but at 160 lbs and with a threshold somewhere under 300 W I’ve had the fastest bike split in my AG at IMLP on 205 W average and ridden 2:10 at the Boulder 70.3 on 240 W average.

I’d agree w/ all of the above, FTP north of 4 w/kg and a good position on a fast bike can get you around an IM course w/ an AG FOP bike split.

I rode “only” .70 of FTP and had a top-10 AG bike split at LP this year. YMMV.

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4.4-4.933 watts/kg dependent on shape @75kg.
To ride front group or second in the are group race 3.75w/kg for the first 60k then it settles to 3.25-3.5. This puts you around 5 hours on slow bike courses like NZ or port max.