The 10 Minute Bike Test
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The test is a shortened version of a classic cycling protocol. Andy Coggan and Hunter Allen popularized 20-minute and 60-minute power tests in "Training and Racing with a Power Meter (2006)"
Those tests anchor to threshold, the pace you can hold for an hour.We use 10 minutes instead. It is more accessible, it is repeatable, and it anchors to a different number: your VO2 Max Indicator. A 10-minute max effort on the bike pulls oxygen use to near its ceiling. That is the engine we are measuring.
To turn the raw score into a usable training anchor , we take your 10-minute average watts, divide by bodyweight in kilograms, then scale it by 0.85. The result sits below your maximum effort and above your easy pace. That is the number every zone scales from.
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