Many will be familiar with the power profiles that you can use to compare yourself with other riders and allow you to determine your phenotype.
Do similar tables exist but adjusted to take account of age. e.g. for 40-50 50-60 etc.?
The data is out there for sure, there must be plenty on the Trainerroad itself, just wonder if anyone has collected it.
Have a look at Nateās posts in the āBell Curveā thread. He provides some charts for ftp by age (for TR users) which is quite enlightening.
WKO5 has some decent age adjusted charts - obviously you need to be a subscriber to access.
In my age bracket on intervals.icu there are just short of 700 users and they also have charts. Will only tell you where you are within this group though.
Do you mean the WAC chart? If so Iām afraid thatās a red herring. If you look at the config itās just a rough adjustment on the basic WAC which as far as Iām aware has no evidential basis.
This feature is available on intervals.icu. Almost 5k athletes across gender and age ranges as well as plotting your W/Kg on the coggan classification charts
Thanks thatās the best data I have found so far.
But itās not quite what I am after. FTP is a very blunt tool and even more so when it is self reported (as I think these numbers are)
The enlightening thing about power profiles is that they allow you to determine your phenotype.
My guess would be that the shape of these phenotype curves would change with age, specifically the sprint one flattening at a greater rate than the time trial.
Great, just taken a look and it seems the sort of thing I mean. But will have to boot up my other computer to check it out, this one has a terrible FTP
From memory some of it is self-reported but TR has a high proportion of users with PMs. Thereās a bigger risk of selection bias imho as itās data from just one platform.
Enlightening nonetheless.
Turned out to be what I was after. Itās a great site, wish I had discovered it earlier