A thirteen minute 1 in 20
Ever wondered what it takes to ride a thirteen minute 1 in 20?
In 2002, one of our Aussie pros, Trent Lowe, did just that, clocking 13:02 before going on to win a Junior World Mountain Bike XC Championship title.
Now, with the help of a video of the ride, a bit of physics and a lot of guesswork, I've had a go at reconstructing the ride.
My approach to generating the data for this ride was to:
- Ride the 1 in 20 myself with a helmet camera and a GPS
- Find places where both rides were in the same position, thus providing checkpoints for Trent's ride (i.e., after 2:12, he had gone 1.142km)
- Use a physics model to work out what constant power output would be needed to get to the each checkpoint in the required time (speed data was generated here)
Read more about this, including some caveats, in this blog post.
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Duration: 13:02 Time riding: 13:02 (100%) Distance: 6.8km Climbing: 276m Work: 309kJ | |||||||||
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Effective power: 400W?Like average power, but taking into account the way higher powers are disproportionally harder. The idea is that the ride would be just as hard if this was the average power for the entire ride. This number is calculated using a method developed by Andrew Coggan. |
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power data given a video, but who knows what it will be able to do in the future…