cheers Jack.
so I managed to get on the watt bike for a solid half hour session last night.
Averaged 220 watts, which was passable, slightly lower than last time but a much more consistent level of effort than last time as I had started too hard and really faded last time. this time I held the effort well until the last few minutes where I started to fade. I weigh 80.5kgs so that was an average of 2.7watts/kg which is ok. But I want to get that up to nearer 4 watts/kg which will bring me to a much better place on the table towards the bottom of this page:
https://www.cyclinganalytics.com/blog/2012/06/watts-kg-on-the-power-curveI put in one effort of about a minute and held about 620 watts for that, which is also not great (7.7w/kg) and needs to be improved
in short I am roughly a bottom end cat 4 level rider. this needs to be changed.
On the plus side. I have been injured lately (and still rehab work being done) so this isn't as bleak as it could be. I will see how quickly I come on over the next month or so.
i'm now going to start looking for a new turbo with power so that I can start to get some decent results - how much are those pedal based power meters...bugger this is going tog et expensive again