Subject: RE: Ironman cycling cadence and wattage A cadence around 90 is generally a good range for most riders. Wattage targets are based upon your personal threshold. And for a given training ride depend ion what you are working on. I suggest you get the book Training and Racing with a Power Meter. This will help you to better understand how to train with power. One of the things you will want to do is establish your FT (Functional Threshold--think of it as analogous to LTHR) which is the power you can hold for a 60min TT. There are a variety of ways to estimate it without doing a full 60' TT. The same 30' TT many use for HR would probably work OK. And Andrew Coggan (a co-author of the above book) gives this list. Then you can design training sessions based upon this FT. |