How many hours do you put in per week?

[Crownan]

@Power13

@zerozorro

To me, all the w/kg stuffs doesn’t make as much sense as raw absolute power IRL

As always, it depends, there are several guys I ride with who blow me away in terms of raw watts in FTP (by ~50w), but I drop them regularly either because I am lighter, I have a longer TTE or I am way more aero……or some combination of all 3, depending on the situation.

There are more variable than pure watts or W/KG.

Climbing and W/Kg

I have a question about climbing and W/kg. At what gradient does W/kg dominate over absolute watts? There must be some physics answer of course tho it’s out of my depth. I used to just assume it always matters, but I know big power riders can climb w the best of them (like WVA) on single digit gradients but featherweights take the cake when it’s double digit. Does anyone have a link to some article that sheds light on this question: when does it really matter?

[Bbt67]

I tried to put in 170 hours this week but I failed by a couple. I’ll try again next week.

[GoLongThenGoHome]

Slacker

[schmidt]

@zerozorro @ArHu74

Maybe a bit off topic - boys still grow beyond the age of 18, but 5 cm would be quite uncommon; https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41c021.pdf (CDC growth chart)

[WindWarrior]

@Bbt67

tried to put in 170 hours this week but I failed by a couple. I’ll try again next week.

I’m already seeing base rides like this one tomorrow

For those of you looking to fill up the week

[Trash_Panda]

So far this year I’ve averaged 12 hours a week on the bike. Up from 8.96 hours/week in 2022. Also try and lift x3 a week for an hour.

3.08w/kg per TR AI

[Elliot88]

2023
Averaged 4h 14m p/w Traineroad Aiftp has me at 4.04 w/kg or 299w

[KWcycling]

My average hours per week over the last few years
2019. 5.9 hrs/wk
2020. 8.6 hrs/wk
2021. 8.4 hrs/wk
2022. 8.1 hrs/wk
2023. 8.7 hrs/wk

[Cravery]

This is so accurate. I do feel the effects of been tall (195cm) and larger (87kg) in real life. However I rode group rides and races with IRL friends who I am stronger than outside and they destroy me when the pace Ramps up even on Zwift flats. The penalty for height and weight seem to much for edge case who are both tall and heavier in Zwift

[HLaB]

Currently:

which is

That’s a long way back from my peak (although an unstructured one)

I think this was my first structured year.