Originally Posted by
gregf83
It's not perfect but the W' component of the critical power model of Monod Scherrer provides a reasonably close estimation of Anaerobic Work Capacity (AWC) measured in kJ. To measure requires a couple all-out efforts of different durations and you'll get your Critical Power, CP, and AWC values. If you ride all-out for one hour the AWC component gets spread out over the full hour and added to CP. If you sprint all-out for 30 Seconds the total power available is roughly CP + AWC/30.
You can read a little more here:
Modeling the Expenditure and Recovery of Anaerobic Work Capacity in Cycling
Golden Cheetah will provide an estimate of AWC based on recent hard efforts.
You may find this interesting. It's an analysis of MVDP that relates to this (IIRC).