Originally Posted by
Hermes
I think BTS’s original post was pretty good and generated an interesting thread. Threads wander around as others discuss point and counter point. All good.
IMO, one has to have the capability, opportunity and motivation to clear/achieve the 300 watt bar. Many have the capability but the opportunity i.e. course and format do not offer the distance or amount of time to generate the result and why press oneself if there is no reward.
Concur. I'm just surprised that 300w for an hour is viewed as a high bar. The cyclinganalytics chart
furiousferret shared makes a lot of sense - there is a pretty high n and seems likely to be representative of the population of interest (racers). Within that context, top 80-90% seems like a perfectly reasonable ballpark for people that can do 300w for at least an hour.