2026 Hour of Power

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Does anyone fancy a little challenge?

  • Record a target a set number of watts (using average power) for an hour.
  • No extra points for going harder than target but you can if you want
  • You can do intervals or steady state,
  • Provide evidence of at least hitting the target power, Interval icu, Strava ‘power skills’, hour lap on Garmin/Wahoo etc.
  • set period, maybe a month, to make it through to next round where the target watts increase.
  • Last person standing wins the challenge

For example, monthly targets

In March do 200w for an hour
In April - 210w
In May - 220w
In June - 230w

Could be smaller or bigger jumps, depends if anyone wants to give it a go Etc.

Anyone in? or am I on my own.

Start at 200w, thats 21 days remaining to achieve the March target.

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:wink:

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W used to do “the hour of power” at the tri club 15-20 years ago once a week before work, meet at 6am, ride in and do an hour chainy round regents park (usually fixed) and then 7:30 ride back to the office. it was dead back then but died a death eventually as it got too busy with idiots.

anyway march goal 90watts

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I think I got up the Alpe a couple of weeks ago in 260w, wasn’t flat out but certainly hurt! That was about 56 minutes I think.

Going to try and do it again a few times but more for pacing and training than improving it!

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Would W/Kg be more inclusive for a challenge?

Said the skinny guy :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Only if you’re skinny !

Lol

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The only problem is this involves riding a bike for a whole hour

(I’m in for 230W some time this year)

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Sounds like you are in :slightly_smiling_face:

You could freewheel down and let the average drop and still make through rounds 1-3

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Indoor or outdoor, it all counts.

3x 18’, r2’
3x 16’ r4’ etc

Average power though no NP busters

You only need 200w for round one :wink:

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Maybe, but there are plenty of ‘light’ people putting out a silly amount of watts :wink: (not me btw, as you can see, :laughing: Although thats the idea, a stepped improvement over a few months, starting at an achievable target.)

I like the idea of the purity of a simple raw number.

Plus the bigger people have to work much harder on the run so fairs fair.

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I certainly don’t fall into the light category like fruity and doon :joy:

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Not strictly an hour but I averaged around 290w up the Alpe du Zwift on the weekend - would like another 10 watts. I’m heavy at the moment though so watts per kilo is well down…

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My PB on the Alp is 56:37 243w (Jan 2021)

Edit, it was an interval session by the look of it. 4x 13’ 269w

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Hour PB is 260w (Jun 2020)
2h 240w
3h 230w

It seems I like round numbers.

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Sounds like you can do it at Z1 / Z2 watts. :+1:

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See you in June

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Defo approved as a pass. :slight_smile:

April. You’ve gotta do each round :wink:

I can see this was a silly idea. :slight_smile:

Maybe I’ll put a poll up with choices for the April power target, nothing too crazy, I need to make it through two rounds at least.

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:sweat_smile:

Are you still browsing the TR forums? I dredged up a 2020 thread on this last week.

I’m planning to do an Olympic distance so I will have a number, won’t be impressive unless I decide not to pace it and go all out. Iirc I’m around 233W in olys.

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267W to beat!

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Not far off so far this year….

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What is the average power non NP number for Kennedy -1?

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Words can be hurtful you know.

194W

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Arrh.

A bit of a shame, I consulted the rule book and Gandalf, that didn’t pass sorry. ‘you shall not pass.’

(Think the book is ‘you cannot pass’ but you have got to please the kids these days)