Raceplan Coaching & Racing: TOC time trial power numbers

It always fascinates me what pro riders' power numbers look like...not to mention an interesting way to compare. I weight 30 pounds more than Pou and produce 75 watts less power!!!

http://www.velonews.com/train/articles/11806.0.html

The Solvang time trial - at 23km - served as an ideal venue to collect maximum critical power values. This TT saw only two riders break the 30-minute barrier. Remarkably, both Jufre Pou and Aerts opted to forego their disc wheels in favor of racing with a power meter to gain the data. In Jufre Pou's case, that decision probably cost him a top-15 final classification, but in return, he now has data that can be used to help him objectively train for his major goal of the year, the Giro d'Italia.

Jufre Pou, who weighs 147 pounds, averaged 388 watts for 32-minutes. His maximum 10-minute value was an astonishing 400 watts. This is some very valuable data as he starts to prepare for the Giro since the Italian race has a 13km uphill time trial and a 42km flat time trial. He can now use this data to design specific, objective intervals to prepare him for both. The time trial data from California also reaffirms that Jufre Pou's functional threshold power (FTP) is somewhere between 380-390 watts at the time of the Tour of California.