All the time, doing it now. Whilst sipping a Martini.

I stand, sort of, corrected. Wiggins apparently averaged 440watts over his hour record.

Only the one time and it was on a climb, which always over-estimates the power for me. Around 6.5w/kg. Not sure I’d get close on a trainer or want to even try. I’ve done plenty of 450-500w 5 minutes though so I would have thought that 500w wouldn’t be hard for any decent hill climbers or racers.

To be clear I don’t have one 500w effort in me but i understand it’s not the ability to do one which is exceptional it’s the ability to recover very quickly and do 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. in a race situation which sets MVDP apart as a bit of a freak. Others can put out more but not repeat it close together.

I’d say it was a fairly tall order for mere mortals.

I did go off and check zwiftpower. Most of the top riders were high 400s for 5 minutes but didn’t see any with 20W of 500.

A friend of mine is a continental pro for Ribble. Fairly handy on the hills. He was 8th at the Nationals and must be 75ish Kg.

I checked some of his number and he has 476W for a 6minute climb.

About 20 seconds for me 😥

Just the once ~13 months ago, when my 4iiii’s battery was practically dead and decided I did a world class ride. 😆

It depends what you mean by ‘watt’ and ‘minute’.

That’s impressive.

The chart may not scale well but realistically someone 100kg is not in the right ball park.

I way for me. That’s right in my weak spot of my power profile. My PB puts me in the “good” spot. That was recorded a while ago though, as my current 20 min power is only 20w lower, so maybe if I tried again I’d improve.

My FTP is around 4.25W/kg at 72kg and I can do about 3mins at 500W or 5mins at 375-390W. My average across a 2-3hour ride is 225W.

500W for 5 mins would be a killer for me. I’d need a lung transplant at around 3.5mins.

5.53W/kg according to Strava. Not convinced by that chart.

No, 5.53W/kg for five minutes 😭

My best’s are something like 606w for 1 minute and 389w for 5 minutes, from about 5 years ago when I paid a lot more attention to my numbers and actually trained, thats with a 20 min best of about 312w.

Peak power was around 1320w IIRC and did 5 second max of about 1100w.

Those values got me to 2nd cat, winning 4 out of the 5 crits I entered that season, including a 2/3/4. I didnt get any top 10’s in road races though, always survived the cut but tended to dip out on the final climb. Thats all at about 72kg.

I reckon I know a couple who could do 500w for 5 mins, but they are big guys. On the return to Pollenca last year it felt like I did 500w for 5 minutes just trying to sit on the wheel of one guy!

506w for 3 minutes is seriously good too, assuming of course your exercise bike is accurate, which is a big assumption.