Reading through the past couple of pages makes me feel like the Conor Dunne of the OCUK peleton!
Anyway, my first ever power test with a proper PM:
Username - #Chri5#
Age - 40 and a bit (too many youngsters around here!)
Height - 6'1
Weight - 84kg (Mrs Chris's mince pies are just too damn good)
5 second - 998w; 11.88w/kg
1 minute - 453w; 5.39w/kg
5 minute - 325w; 3.86w/kg
20 minute - 262w; 3.11w/kg
Gear - Assioma Duo PM pedals, Garmin 800, Kinetic Road Machine
Test - Sufferfest Full Frontal 4DP (will link a Strava workout once I've synced my Edge though I only share with followers by default). Have previous Full Frontal test results from 2018 but they are all virtual power so not sure of the relevance in comparing them.
Five second power surprised me with a figure that high. Weight will come down (though we've not even started the Christmas Cake yet!). Best I got to last summer was 80.3kg, so targeting 80kg again.
I had a crack at the new Sufferfest ramp test called Half Monty on Sunday. Compared back to 7th January above:
Weight - 80.7kg last Tuesday, 81.6 today - hopefully that's water retention, not cake retention!
5 second - 998w; 11.88w/kg (no change - not tested)
1 minute - 453w; 5.39w/kg (no change - not tested)
5 minute - was 325w, now 350w (4.32w/kg)
20 minute - was 262w, now 285w (3.5w/kg)
All the morning TT sessions during lockdown are obviously helping. Not sure if I got the ramp test protocol correct - are you meant to stop as soon as you can't hold the target? Even if you could surge back up and hold it for another a short window?