450 gives you ~5watts/kg for 3 minute power. you can decide where you’re at on this table: http://www.truesport.com/...druber/druber15.html
That table is less than meaningless for a Triathlete. It only has meaning for a Competitive cyclist. Now, if someone created a chart like that for Triathletes it would be pretty cool to see.
No offense( really), but a Triathlete gains zero competitive insight comparing themselves with a competitive cyclist, who is essentially (as a group) focusing their entire training load and recovery on the bike (maybe some reinforcement training in the gym, whatever), whereas a Triathlete is focusing on 3 separate disciplines within any given phase of their training.
Additionally, …20mins is the cap on this chart, but do you honestly think anyone training for a full distance Ironman has anything more than a passing interest in any of their critical power values (during the regular season) below CP120? I can see how those 20min or less values could be fun to know during the preseason, but they certainly wouldn’t guide training unless it was specifically for an oly or less, and/or it was a very hilly course.
Someone needs to produce a chart of this type for Triathletes, so we can start comparing apples to apples. Not that looking at this chart isnt potentially flattering, since my #'s are 17.6/8.1/5.4/4.2 , but who cares? I need to be able to swim 2.4, before, and 26.2 afterward.
somebody build a TRIATHLETES wkg chart.