27th September ‘25: FTP round 2

It’s been a couple (three?) months since my first FTP test – I wrote a post about it back then, but headline was an FTP of 216 watts.

So round two earlier today….. 🥁🥁🥁

227 watts.

Not sure how I feel about that.. yep, it’s an improvement; pretty much by around 5%. At that same rate of improvement, by May next year I might get to a further 15% – so an ftp of maybe 250-260 watts. Let’s just do some rough calcs…:

My current weight is 73kg; so as of today my ftp watts/kg is 3.11

If I make no further ftp improvement but bring my weight down to 70kg, that’s 3.24 w/kg

And if I hit the 260 watt ftp, that’s:

• 3.56 w/kg at current weight
• 3.71 w/kg at 70kg

So there’s some hope. And a couple of rides this week also showed some positive, albeit modest improvements – averaging around 17.5mph over a couple of hours

But a long, long, long way to go