Originally Posted by
MinnMan
My best 20 minute power efforts are all indoors, because outside I don’t really have the opportunity for 20 minutes of steady hard effort. Maybe it would be different if I lived in a place with long climbs.
Yeah, this was a topic of discussion the other day - between the terrain and the traffic controls in the Twin Cities metro, there's very little opportunity for setting a decent 20 minute power figure. The other day, I managed to average just under my FTP for 20 minutes, but I can certainly do better than that on the trainer.
For that matter, even setting a 3 min figure is tough around here. A website that I use for tracking my workload (intervals.icu) will look at efforts 3 minutes and longer for estimating FTP... so I naturally want to find a 3+ minute hill to hammer on
Still haven't found one within 30 miles, though.