Dave thanks, that was kinda my concern that it was not calibrated correctly. Looked online on how to calibrate the Garmin310XT, so hopefully that may resolve my issue.
Moved into the house yesterday, got my stuff delivered was finally able to do the bike FTP test. This was the first ride on a bike that's mine (i.e. not a fitness bike from the local gym) in 7 weeks. and I used my TT bike since that's my favorite.
- warmup: Felt OK, got into a rhythm pretty quickly - 5' VO2 Max test: I was hoping to end up around 350 Watts but somehow I averaged 384. It was not fun but my effort was pretty consistent. Positively surprised. - 10' rest after that were short, my recovery took quite a long time - 20' FTP test: I started off thinking the result from the 5' test would be around 120% of FTP, which would mean my 1h FTP should be just over 300 watts. Which also meant my 20' power should be near 315-320. So I started off shooting for that but it took less than a minute to realize that would be way off. Had to lower the numbers quite a bit. My pacing seemed all over the place, I'd have trouble maintaining power, then I'd have to shift to an easier gear, then start pushing harder, shift to a bigger gear based on how I felt... To my surprise, my VI is still exactly 1.00. Average power for the 20' was 284 watts, which gives an FTP of 270 watts.
FTP is basically where I thought it was gonna be, but still a disappointing result. It's my worst threshold power of the last 3 years, and the result of minimal activity the last few months.
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Dave thanks, that was kinda my concern that it was not calibrated correctly. Looked online on how to calibrate the Garmin310XT, so hopefully that may resolve my issue.
- warmup: Felt OK, got into a rhythm pretty quickly
- 5' VO2 Max test: I was hoping to end up around 350 Watts but somehow I averaged 384. It was not fun but my effort was pretty consistent. Positively surprised.
- 10' rest after that were short, my recovery took quite a long time
- 20' FTP test: I started off thinking the result from the 5' test would be around 120% of FTP, which would mean my 1h FTP should be just over 300 watts. Which also meant my 20' power should be near 315-320. So I started off shooting for that but it took less than a minute to realize that would be way off. Had to lower the numbers quite a bit. My pacing seemed all over the place, I'd have trouble maintaining power, then I'd have to shift to an easier gear, then start pushing harder, shift to a bigger gear based on how I felt... To my surprise, my VI is still exactly 1.00. Average power for the 20' was 284 watts, which gives an FTP of 270 watts.
FTP is basically where I thought it was gonna be, but still a disappointing result. It's my worst threshold power of the last 3 years, and the result of minimal activity the last few months.