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The local Trek Store had a fluid trainer set up with Zwift, and I asked if I could do a power test to satisfy my curiosity, but I didn’t want to suffer for an hour. There was a quick test mode that started at 50 W and stepped up 10 W every minute, to a max of 250 W. I was guessing I’d fail around 200 W.
Well, I got through the whole test and it wasn’t bad at all. I couldn’t have kept up 250 W indefinitely, but I could have done 5-10 minutes. I could talk the whole time, but not continuously at the end. A message on the screen told me I was too strong for the test.
Based on how I felt, my FTP is somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 W, or 2.7 W/kg.
I’ll do another test sometime that goes to higher power, but for now I’ll keep riding outside all winter. I’m still never buying an indoor trainer.
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