Originally Posted by
Voodoo76
Isn't the W/kg curve you are presenting for cycling a physiological marker vs the running curve being a performance one? Not sure what data is available but wouldn't a better comparison be the spread in TT times or IP times at various levels? Interesting subject.
Yes. But running pace basically correlates to power for a given weight so it's not as different as you'd think at first glance. I think it's interesting that both charts look almost exactly the same, as does the VO2max chart, another physiological metric.
Individual time trial times would be useful, if we had all of them for a large number of races. Surely someone has compiled it, somewhere.