Bert
08/07/2026 (Fri) 09:33
No.111549
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08/07/2026 (Fri) 09:33
No.111549
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>>111548
Well I dunno really, I guess I am just looking at different watts/cda calculators online as well as some recent TT races here in Finland and what the winners/podium finishers had for speed and power (if visible on Strava). Like the most aero Finnish TT/track specialist, Severi Savukoski, has a functional CdA of under 0.20, he's crazy slippery, did a 10km TT in just over 12min with 365W power. In comparison, Matias Ahtosalo won the TT nationals with 410W for 36min, and his CdA can be calculated to be around 0.23. I don't quite have that 410-420W engine of top TT specialists, but I think around 380W for 40min is definitely doable for me. So to win the nationals with that power, I would need to get my CdA closer to 0.20. Right now it's probably around 0.23 when I'm really locked in (of course it will get worse when I fatigue etc). So needs a lot more practice, some velodrome testing of different positions and so on. Maybe if I get into the weeds of it I will fly to Britain and do some wind tunnel testing with Wattshop, it's a paypig discipline after all.
Well I dunno really, I guess I am just looking at different watts/cda calculators online as well as some recent TT races here in Finland and what the winners/podium finishers had for speed and power (if visible on Strava). Like the most aero Finnish TT/track specialist, Severi Savukoski, has a functional CdA of under 0.20, he's crazy slippery, did a 10km TT in just over 12min with 365W power. In comparison, Matias Ahtosalo won the TT nationals with 410W for 36min, and his CdA can be calculated to be around 0.23. I don't quite have that 410-420W engine of top TT specialists, but I think around 380W for 40min is definitely doable for me. So to win the nationals with that power, I would need to get my CdA closer to 0.20. Right now it's probably around 0.23 when I'm really locked in (of course it will get worse when I fatigue etc). So needs a lot more practice, some velodrome testing of different positions and so on. Maybe if I get into the weeds of it I will fly to Britain and do some wind tunnel testing with Wattshop, it's a paypig discipline after all.