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[OJ]

"the seven deadly sins....

...er, ways of determining your functional threshold power (roughly in order of increasing certainty):

1) from inspection of a ride file.
2) from power distribution profile from multiple rides.
3) from blood lactate measurements (better or worse, depending on how it is done).
4) based on normalized power from a hard ~1 h race.
5) using critical power testing and analysis.
6) from the power that you can routinely generate during long intervals done in training.
7) from the average power during a ~1 h tt (the best predictor of performance is performance itself).

note the key words "hard", "routinely", and "average" in methods 4, 6 and 7..."

Seitsemän kuolemansyntiä on hyvä pitää mielessä. Jos ei pysty vahvistamaan FTP arviota millään muulla kuin sillä 20min testillä, niin arviota on ehkä parempi muuttaa suuntaan tai toiseen.