Confirmation

I haven't done a maximal effort longer than a couple minutes in the last 6 weeks or so (in fact January 28th was the last time I did a full gas effort up my local 17 ish minute field testing venue - Couser Canyon for you N. San Diego County folk!), and the last time I went up couser it was a pretty fast effort - 310W +/- while setting a PR for that climb. My training lately has pretty much been focused on one day a week of drilling 20 minutes at 325w+ in 5 minute chunks, i.e, "classic" vo2's:

http://www.biketechreview.com/op_ed/stripped_down_2.htm

Well, today, I think I have confirmation that my focusing on losing kilograms last fall helped me go up hills faster, as I was within a handful of seconds of that PR of 6 weeks ago. I've added these last two confirming data points to my alternate uses of a power meter plot featured on the BTR home page:



It doesn't seem as if losing 7kgs or so has effected my ability to make power for 17 minutes or so, does it? :-)