I made up a few Mean Maximal Power curves. The first set of waves from June 1 to July 10. I had a couple really solid rides in there. The second set is from July 11 to 13, during Cascade. There’s a pair of Average Power lines and a pair of Normalized Power lines.
Galen brought up a good point- what if those aren’t maximal efforts? What does this mean? I’m sure the Cascade MMP Curves aren’t maximal all the time, but considering that I got dropped in both road stages, I’d expect my effort to be near-maximal. The efforts that show up on the MMP Curve are likely hanging in the pack, getting dropped from the pack, or riding solo. All of those situations would tend to have high power outputs, I’d guess.
This figure shows the difference in Normalized Power on the MMP Curves. If both MMP Curves are truly maximal (which they probably aren’t), this shows the ‘power loss’ while at Cascade, whatever that means. 60 watts is about 20% of my FTP (300w)… which is huge. Again, I’m not sure what this really means.
One more: the same thing, but for short durations. Time axes in seconds.
