Finally, some power data from an elite PowerCranks cycist

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Marco Pinotti blogged about about his effort on a long break-away last week. He gives his normalized power for a 4’ 20" effort, 330 watts. Not sure what he could have done before but he states it is a marked improvement for him and he did it at the end of a stage race, when he was tired. And, he is a relative newcomer to the cranks.

This power should equate to about a 4 hour IM bike split on a flat course according to Analytic cycling.

Anyhow, thought some of you would enjoy seeing this and, of course, some of you would hate seeing it. Please, no DH0 comments.

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“Please, no DH0 comments.” That’s like saying the plate is hot don’t touch. :wink:

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  1. What was his **average **power for this ride? Please let us know.
  2. “Published today” isn’t very informative, for those who want to see what race this might have been
  3. Why do you have a watermarked photograph of this guy? Is that a copyrighted photo?
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Ahh, boy, here we go!

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  1. What was his **average **power for this ride? Please let us know.
  2. “Published today” isn’t very informative, for those who want to see what race this might have been
  3. Why do you have a watermarked photograph of this guy? Is that a copyrighted photo?
    All we have is what he blogged, which showed up today. (edit: we are going to try to get the power file from him)
    The race was the 8th Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali I believe, 5th stage March 29th. Turns out 1-2 in the GC happens to be another pair of PC’ers.
    The photo we have is the photo he submitted.
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  1. “Published today” isn’t very informative, for those who want to see what race this might have been

    Found this report on the race. Sounds like the same race he describes in the blog.

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Ahh, boy, here we go!

No, we’re not going. I’m sure people want to see the data. I suspect that this was a kind of NP-busting ride, with lots of hard efforts going up hills and the like. Such a ride can present a normalized power that the rider cannot maintain as an average for the duration (I did a 3h20m ride at an NP of 273 (and an average of 226), which was what I could maintain for an all out 40km for an hour), hence the request for the average power.

Yes, we’d like to see the file to check things like if zeros were included.

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Ahh, boy, here we go!

No, we’re not going. I’m sure people want to see the data. I suspect that this was a kind of NP-busting ride, with lots of hard efforts going up hills and the like. Such a ride can present a normalized power that the rider cannot maintain as an average for the duration (I did a 3h20m ride at an NP of 273 (and an average of 226), which was what I could maintain for an all out 40km for an hour), hence the request for the average power.

Yes, we’d like to see the file to check things like if zeros were included.
Actually, I would tend to agree with you now that I have seen the course profile. It would appear there had to be large numbers of downhill coasting segments. I am sure the average was much lower than 330. Such an effort is much more suited to IM Canada than IM FLA. If we take 40 watts off this as something he could sustain on the flats then we are talking 290 watts, just a little above with what Steve Larsen attempted to sustain at IM FLA a few years back. Reading the blog though it would appear that what impressed him most was the improvement in his climbing power. He was already the Italian TT champion before PC’s. Now, it seems, he sees he no longer has to fear losing big time during the climbs. That is what he focuses his comments on.