I had a work trip to France and have ridden when I can to keep up with training. There’s longer ascents here than back home.
I’ve got lots of rides in the book and different grades and climbs. VAM is what it is, how long and how far up. There’s the magical formula to get w/kg from that.
Now, when it does that, does it include everything with you (bike/crap)? Or does it assume some kind of bike weight?
Reason I’m asking, is WRT heart rate and those figures…I’d like to guess at what the 8 and 20ish min powers were for some of the climbs.
I will say, it’s humbling where some hard efforts wind up on the boards on these longer climbs end up.
Just want to know for tracking training over a 2 week gap without having the meter on this bike with me.
Formula would have to take bike weight into account. Personally I wouldn’t worry about it, just enjoy riding without numbers for a change. VAM is far from perfect as a measure, it’s easier to achieve higher VAM numbers on steeper slopes, and wind, road condition, rolling resistance, etc all still have a part to play. Just try to go quicker up the climbs, then you know you’re getting stronger…
Cool. Makes sense. Just that the VAM was looking pretty darn good on some 8min and 20+min stuff, wind or not. Meaning the combo of weight and recent training were working.
I had a work trip to France and have ridden when I can to keep up with training. There’s longer ascents here than back home.
I’ve got lots of rides in the book and different grades and climbs. VAM is what it is, how long and how far up. There’s the magical formula to get w/kg from that.
Now, when it does that, does it include everything with you (bike/crap)? Or does it assume some kind of bike weight?
Reason I’m asking, is WRT heart rate and those figures…I’d like to guess at what the 8 and 20ish min powers were for some of the climbs.
I will say, it’s humbling where some hard efforts wind up on the boards on these longer climbs end up.
Just want to know for tracking training over a 2 week gap without having the meter on this bike with me.
The physics requires inclusion of the bike/equipment mass to equate ascension rates with the power demand, but the estimation of W/kg is for the rider only and an estimate of bike/equipment mass to remove is used.
There are better ways to estimate W/kg than from VAM formula. VAM is a bit of a quick and dirty way to estimate W/kg: