IIRC, which is asking a lot given the number of threads, I don’t see these things adding up:
Avg. Power of 358
Time at La Morcuera that is a minute (or roughly 3% slower) than his PB.
A CP30 of 5.77 is certainly very impressive, but that should, I think, have resulted in a significantly faster time than he’d ever done before. It’s also almost exactly 5.8, which is, conveniently, the number he thought he could hit. Tiltheend lives in the area and holds a PB up that climb of ~30 min weighing ~64kg and putting out 301watts.
I’m waiting to see the actual power file. Though, after all of this, it makes me think, simply put that the dudes powermeter is miscalibrated. That could explain a lot. 5.8w/kg, based on what was covered in the liar, liar encyclopedia (too long to be a thread), should have resulted in a vast PB.
This from the PezCycling interview: “The first really big thing I can document was when I climbed La Marcourera in September. My personal best for this climb was 29’47" done 14 years earlier when I was 24 years old and 4 kg lighter than I am now. In 2005 I was able to do this climb in 30’14". This year when I did it my time was 27’40", 90 seconds faster than my previous best. My PowerTap data for this climb averaged 340 watts, compared to 280 the year before.”
280w = 30:14
340w = 29:47
358w = ~31:00???
THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE… (even the 280->340 time drop does not compute). My guess? Either he “thought” he averaged 358w (I don’t know enough about the powertap to know how intervals work, so maybe he didn’t hit the interval button, just guessed off the number he saw? Is there an interval button?). Or his powertap is broken. Or he is lying. Or the definitions of the physical world have changed…
EDIT: tiltheend does not live in the area, but those numbers were from a cyclist who does, and who posted that comment on the wattage forum on google.