Tuft averaged 415W for the last hour to win US Open

velobob

I just spotted this in an article on the team web site for Svein Tuft winner of the US Open last weekend. He averaged 415W for the last hour of the US Open Champs this weekend:

http://www.symmetricscycling.com/ra...7/04_07_07.aspx

Pretty incredible!

doctorSpoc

Ouch!

Hunter w/kg

Wonder if that is in the download or just from his powercontrol. The powercontrol doesn't average zeroes. Either way, it's impressive. Guess we know what his threshold is now though. ;-)

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cclarke

Great ride. Anybody know how big he is?

I'd like to borrow his SRM and see what it shows my threshold is.

doctorSpoc

from the symetrics page...

Name: Svein Tuft
Date of Birth: May 9, 1977
Height: 175 cm
Weight (In Season): 77 kg
Currently Resides: Langley, British Columbia

~5.4 W/kg FTP

rmur17

cool. I wonder what his NP was for that time-frame?

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kclw

I can guarentee that nobody in the pro peleton trains like Tuft.

For the last couple of years his winter training has consisted primarily of Ultimate fighting. (Yes I am serious)

Although this year he did spend some time on the track. Maybe that is why he has had a better spring.

zaskar

5.4 is great. Makes me wonder how many of the numbrs are BS in the"whats your FTP" thread.

BullGod

too right.

although bear in mind this is the last hour of a 4 hr race. Most people do a totally fresh hour after a few days rest (or 20 min x 0.95) to get FTP.....and i reckon if you want your FTP to be a certain number you can devise a test to get to there.

it does surprise me though that there are so many forum members with FTP's above 4 w/kg though......but reading the posts here it seems lots of guys tend to be quite old, or in the lower categories.

vadiver

And from what was said on TV and in the writeups, a very hard race at that. It was just around 50 people that actually finished the race.

EpicriderGMAC

415 watts is a very strong ride for the last hour of the US Open. But I wouldn't take that number as Tuft's FT power, since as was stated earlier he was not recovered before the 1 hour effort.

Over on BTR it was estimated that Tuft averaged 6.8 watts/kilo at Redlands for around 10 minutes....so I'm quite confident that his FT is at 5.4 watts/kilo or above.

Moral of the story--Sven Tuft is one badass powerful horse on the bike.

cclarke

I didn't realize he was so burley. 415 w and 5.4 w/kg makes sense. I agree his FTP would probably be somewhat higher as well.

rayhuang

wow-for me to have a 5.4w/kg ftp I'd need to average 363 watts. I dont think thats coming anytime in the near future considering I can only hold 363 for about 4 minutes-lol! But hey-I could hang with Tuft for about 2 miles.......


I am always amazed at the power of the true bad@$$es that race bikes!!

acoggan

Hey, watch who you're calling "quite old"!

FWIW, when I was in my mid-20's I could sustain 5.2 W/kg for 1 h (75 min, actually). To only be able to generate 4.4 W/kg now (at age 48, and at the same body mass) is therefore a significant (but completely expected) fall off.