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Friday, April 18, 2008

A few more thoughts on the data I've collected so far. I've gotten through the first 6 chapters of the Training and Racing with Power book and I'm coming across all sorts of interesting tidbits. One of those is looking at my average power over various time intervals in the form of Watts/kg or how much power I produce for my weight. When I look at the data for intervals longer than 10-20 minutes I find that I am a strong Cat 3 rider. When I look at my averages for a 5 second and 1 minute sprint, I barely show up on the chart. Now I expect that some of that is coming from the fact that I did the sprint parts of my test at the end when my legs were a little fried so I need to go back and do a test that's a little more friendly to figuring out what my sprint power is, but this does confirm my thesis that I have a complete total of about 4 fast twitch muscles in my entire body.

With some focused training I will probably be able to improve those numbers to some degree over the course of the next year but I won't be winning any flat races soon and I probably need to resign myself to either only racing time trials and road races with longer climbs or working as a super-domestique for some powerful sprinter or explosive climber on a team somewhere (Are you listening Security Bank guys? I can pull like a diesel for miles and miles if you need me to...be happy to do it...have bike, will travel...).

So, time to get to class. Have a great weekend and I'll try to post an update sometime over the weekend (this could be the kiss of death and I won't write for another three months).

Thanks for Reading.

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