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It updates whenever I add a workout, so I get some satisfaction on weeks like this when I see that I've posted a few top-10 numbers. Especially since the peaks aren't necessarily where you'd expect them to be (Tuesday's Polo Fields final lap sprint was the 60s peak, but the 5s and 10s numbers were a later sprint out at Lake Merced).
It's also a reminder to me that real-world riding includes a whole range of hard efforts. Sometimes a very intense 1 minute is decisive (usually at the end of a race), but often a hard 5 minute climb or 20 minute section is what creates the selection. It's rare that real-world efforts happen in exactly 1m, 5m, 20m increments, so I find that even exceptional non-time trial events rarely produce predictable PBs. If the effort doesn't match the length of the benchmark, it's not going to look as good as an intentional test effort at a given time.
I haven't done too many hard 60+ minute efforts. The Mt. Hamilton climb today is the obvious exception.
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