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MishMash

2y↑7

Fun video! For estimating how long efforts above threshold can be held, you can use critical power which represents the anaerobic contribution above your threshold. The crude estimate is to take a known time zone e.g your 2 min @ 505w, (which from your video looked more like 545 as zero time was included ) and calculate anaerobic capacity which is
AC (W’ J) = (watts-CP)*time(s)
CP ~ threshold, so 320w for yourself.

(545-320)*120 = 27,000 J

Then with your anaerobic work capacity figure, you can reverse the calculation. So divide it by 440-320 to figure out how long you could hold 440w.

27000/(440w-320w) = 225s (3:45) which isn’t far off. Your likely anaerobic capacity is 28kJ or your FTP is higher.

These calculations model the anaerobic energy system contribution on too of your aerobic system, given it’s not linear as anaerobic power production only ramps up at the high end.

Rahel Wijeyekoon

2y↑1

W/kg is certainly less of an issue on the flat, but not so much for a challenge like this where the power target (440W) is a muscular rather than aerobic or anaerobic test for the vast majority of non-elite athletes.

For this sort of challenge, greater muscle mass and strength is undoubtedly an advantage relative to someone of similar conventional cardiovascular fitness but lower strength/muscle mass. I suppose I actually serve as a decent example of this, as I have running PR's that are slightly better than Mark's (18:30 5k, 39:45 10k, 1:28:3x HM) and equivalent to maybe slightly inferior cycling fitness (assuming Mark's FTP is somewhere in the region of the 3.2W/kg he said he does Alpe de Zwift at) as I doubt I could hold 440W for longer than 90s before my legs give out because I weigh ~60% what Mark does and simply turning the pedals over at 440W causes much more muscular fatigue for me relative to Mark.

Basically, this is a test of muscular endurance and strength with a high absolute load. If the load is absolute and strength and muscular endurance are the primary determinants of performance, the person with greater strength and muscle mass is going to perform better most of the time.

A technically more "fair" comparison would still be to scale a challenge like this to W/kg, but as Mark points out in the video it doesn't really work for someone like him as he's carrying a lot more muscle mass than the average person, and certainly a lot more than the average cyclist. Wiggins' 6-6.2W/kg is based on a super lean weight with no upper body muscle mass to speak of, whereas Mark is easily carrying 10+ kg of "excess" upper body muscle mass that skews his W/kg against him.

There's really no perfect way to make something like this comparable, and if anything this demonstrates how insane 6-6.2W/kg for a full hour on a track bike is as a guy of above average fitness in an upright riding position who weighs ~30kg more physically can't turn over the pedals after 4 minutes. The fitness required to make that a threshold effort that can be held in an extreme TT position remains incomprehensible.

Xavier Montet

2y↑3

Hi Mark.

Last year's best 5k row on a Concept2, for a male heavyweight 40-49 years, is 16'14''.
Maybe try to match it?
That's a 1'37'' /500m pace.

Or just try a 2k or 5k and see how you compare to your age group? (#aboveaverage)

It would be a good benchmark for your future Hyrox events ☺️

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Mark Lewis

2y↑169

Me V Sir Bradley V GCN at 440W … sick bucket at the ready 🤢 😂

chickenpoodl GMS

The silly reason why they had to hide the pro rider's identity was due to him being freshly signed as a presenter for their show. and they wished to keep him secret for the time being. He's Connor Dunne. His height gave it away haha.
But I've watched a number of your related videos to these challenges over the last few days, and its just great fun. Its always refreshing to see someone create content that is tough, challenging, humble, and most importantly, fun and entertaining at the same time.

Geartronics

@Edward H 2 minutes! At 440w I’d be finished at 45s according to Garmin power curve. Then again, I’m 59kg so much better up the hills.

Geartronics

@TheWoogeroo absolutely, that’s why racing on the flat is only for the big guys who can turn more watts. At 59kg I’ll have to stick to the hillclimbing 😂

Chris Wren

@Dan Cyclo could he still produce the same wattage, whilst holding that aero position.

It becomes a different challange all together.

Chris Wren

2y↑1

@Daniel Pinto also, of we put time trials aside, riding in the real world, with wind hills etc, he is not gonna be even close.

Still a great effort tho, mark is an exercise guy, not a cyclist.

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Giorgio Coppola Cycling

2y↑382

When you realised how hard 440w was, absolutely cracked me up 😂 The commentary while doing it was absolutely mega "o thats spicy" 😂

Runar Johansen

2y↑3

@Mark Lewis Mark, this was awsome! Laughing out loud. Great content :)

Mark Lewis

2y↑53

That’s my kids fault. They are pathetic when it comes to eating hot food and whenever they are served something remotely spicy that’s what they say. It’s become something of a house term for anything that catches you off guard and is a bit outside your comfort zone. 😁

Michael Kaplan

2y↑295

I’m 6’6” 240. My ftp is currently 364. I only offer that as credibility to say this: your cadence has to come up to survive efforts like that. I was a slow churner too and my legs would burn out so fast. Once I could comfortably hold over 85 and now toward 100rpm, my cycling efforts at high wattage got a lot easier. The work on cadence will pay off.

Ash Shield

Exactly aerobic over anaerobic you save getting into those lactate thresholds and also saves burning glycogen stores

Michael Kaplan

2y↑1

@Frank The Tank ftp = functional threshold power. Theoretically, it’s a measure of the power a cyclist can hold over an hour. It’s a metric they use to evaluate their fitness/prowess. Cadence is just the measure of how fast you pedal. Usually expressed in revolutions per minute on a bike.

Andy Rogers

2y↑2

@Frank The Tank FTP = Functional Threshold Power. This is one way of measuring your cycling power. It’s measured in Watts, and is a figure that you could theoretically maintain for an hour (before collapsing exhausted in a heap on the floor). So if you have an FTP of 300, you should be able to cycle at 300 Watts for an hour. Cadence is simply how fast you’re turning the pedals over while cycling. High cadence (say 90-120) sees your legs spinning like crazy, while low cadence (say 50-80) sees your legs turn more slowly, but usually requires more force on each “stroke”.

Frank The Tank

What are ftp and cadence? Sorry I know nothing about cycling racing

Colin Tainter

Kadence is king!

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MrEcted

1y↑3

I've never been an "elite" level cyclist, but the closest I've come to your effort was on a Strava segment - I did 473W for 4:30 and I literally thought I was going to die at the end of it (got the KOM at least!). It was a segment I had been working on for a couple months. What was almost as hard was coming back home! The segment was about 20 miles from my house and that 20 mile ride back was brutal, my legs were basically Jello, hah.

Leslie Reissner

2y↑45

Great video, Mark! I tried the 440W thing a few years ago and pretty much blew up under 2 minutes. Ollie Bridgewood, the "enthusiast" on GCN, is a very good cyclist but being a lot lighter than you certainly could not put out the same wattage. However, if you would really like to challenge him, I suggest getting onto Rouvy for a day and seeing if you can drop him! on his challenge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bdPLoPjLo

Rosie Green

2y↑73

As a rower I’d love to see you try and maintain the 2k pace for however long you can - or maybe set your own 2k time? I think WR is 5:35 ish but definitely a good challenge! Or a 5K time for more endurance based! Also works toward the HYROX!

Gareth

@J W true that, I used to stick the rower up to 10 didn't realise that 17 stone Olympic rowers have it on 5 or 6.

J W

2y↑8

@blaneysiktube resistance set at 10 is crazy. Drop it to 5 and set your drag factor to about 130

blaneysiktube

My most recent on a concept 2, resistance set at 10 was 6.5km in 29 minutes, it was my 3rd time doing it. Have been addicted to the wattbike since and not been back to rower yet haha

Andrew Brown

2y↑38

You are the master of understatement- “harder than it looks”. My “sprint” isn’t that far north of 440w! Always good to understand how superhuman pro athletes really are so thanks for subjecting yourself to the agony for us all Mark. Consistently great content so thanks for continuing to post these extraordinary feats.

Sebastian Thorsen

Man it must be so much fun to be able to push 3-400 watts without big effort. Must be a freeing feeling.

Graeme Tough

2y↑18

Great video again. A couple of comments on your GCN critique: Oli Bridgwood (their 'enthusiast') has actually had a proper go at the hour record. On a track. He is also fairly light. Their 'beginner' has gone on to massively improve his cycling and his story, told in a Mallorca long ride video, is actually very very inspiring. Those two GCN videos are worth a watch. Much of the rest of their content I'd not bother with.

Michael Blue

2y↑14

On a setup like this with no wind resistance, i would think weight of rider means quite a lot. If we made a twin of you and shrunk him 20% it would be impossible for him to keep the same power output.

Daz555

2y↑5

I was there at the velodrome to watch his hour record. It was completely gripping from start to finish. The only bad part was the conditions. Sir Wiggo was incredibly unlucky with the weather that day. The air pressure was insanely high. In an effort to counteract the high pressure the heat was turned up in the velodrome and it was like a furnace in there. It's hard to say excactly how many metres Wiggo was denied due to the awful conditions but I've read anywhere from 500 to 900m.

DC

2y↑67

Awesome adventure! Loved it as always.

I watch GCN fairly often as I'm learning to cycle. Their "enthusiast" (Ollie) is someone that I enjoy watching for much of the same reasons I enjoy watching your content. He's one of their only presenters that isn't a former pro cyclist, but he seems to take on hard challenges with regularity, and takes getting beaten by his coworkers with good humor.

DC

2y↑4

@Boba Fett Ollie's great. TONS of fun to watch and I'd be thrilled to be half the athlete he is.

Boba Fett

2y↑8

Ollie also has over a 5 watt/kg ftp and beat all of the other presenters in Zwift WTRL, and almost won a stage on zwift wtrl too. He's actually ridiculously good

DC

@Martin Jarc nah the hour thing was my thought from whole cloth. I'm not suggesting he try to set the record, just see what he could do in an hour - as an alternate form of challenge to ones like these. I just thought it would be interesting, and maybe fun for Mark, and maybe fit reasonably well into his overall training once he's back to training for Ironman. Obviously only he can tell us for sure :)

Martin Jarc

2y↑1

@DC I guess i was misunderstood. I was only pointing out that Ollie the enthusiast also did an hour attempt. Not suggesting Mark should do it. It goes against his mantra of enjoying the sport not searching for super small details to improve his 1h performance. Better for him to focus on lying down and standing up hehe I guess he is too good at spartan to really train those burpies 😂

DC

2y↑6

Also, PS - Ollie's post-bonk completion of that ride where he dropped Contador is one of the most inspiring things I've seen on youtube. I have a deep well of respect for anyone that is willing to go outside their comfort zone, and dig deep to finish the task even when things go sideways.

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Liam Chalmers

2y↑61

I definitely think setting off at a lower cadence made it as painful for the legs as it was. For a ramp test or time trial I will always set out at 100+ and look to hold that throughout, dropping only right at the end

MrPhillian

2y↑7

@Mark Lewis The trick is to be at the cadence you want the interval to be before it starts. So the 5 seconds before, ensure you are at cadence or slightly higher.

Mark Lewis

2y↑9

Good point-I normally do cycle between 85 and 95 but that watts increase caught me by surprise and I never recovered

Bob Yates

2y↑12

Mark, I love your posts. It’s hugely encouraging to see a mid 40’s ordinary guy doing extraordinary things.I’m 57 & I’ve signed up for the 2025 Ratrace LeJog when I’m 60. It’s channels like yours (ok, only yours) that gives me the confidence to try👍 What other legacy will we leave?

Mark Lewis

Rat race events are awesome-you will have an amazing time!

Brandon

Rocky IV Training Montage NEVER gets old.
Any time I feel like I didn't work out hard enough it pushes me to the next level.

Veronica I

2y↑3

Things that make the hour record harder: it's on a track bike (fixed gear), so you have to know what cadence you're going to ride and you can't deviate much at all. You were in high 70s whereas you'd need to be up over 100 on the track.

Alan Johnson

Great video Mark - thanks for putting yourself through these challenges to show us what fantastic athletes these guys really are. Nice Lake shoes btw

Richie L

Great effort, really inspiring to see you push yourself to your limits without giving up 👍

Nathan Wallis

2y↑5

I saw an interview with a velodrome coach at the Olympics once and when asked about power to weight ratio he stated it's more about power to wind resistance. So a large upper body is a disadvantage.

Drew Robbins

2y↑1

Fairly new subscriber here and steadily working my way through your back catalogue of videos, all of which are funny and informative. Really enjoyed both this video and the previous one as they really do highlight just how super human these elite athletes are. Hopefully you find another challenge that can be attempted, perhaps something rowing related? Anyway keep the content coming and thanks for the hard work you put into it, it genuinely is inspiring.

MishMash

2y↑7

Colin Swan

2y↑1

Great effort Mark! Always cracking content. Really is amazing that he did that for an hour...

Simon Block

2y↑4

Discovered your videos this week. Love the combination of elements you bring to a crowded arena - and the fact you take the trouble to write a pithy, witty script (I assume - your eyes keep moving left to right at a regular reading speed, but that could be nystagmus) and don't simply "freestyle" repetitively. What I enjoy as much as your challenges are the ways you adapt to the environment and to yourself as you're experiencing each event. Last summer I decided to see if I could ride 200miles in one day on the road having never ridden more than 100miles in one day on the road, and failed to factor in that it would leave me riding country lanes towards the end for 3 hours, in darkness, with a very small front light that died with ten miles to go. I managed 200 miles (no choice, as the route took me back to my house) and resolved to buy a bigger light (adapted to my stupidity so as to be less stupid next time if I'm stupid enough to do it again). As you said in a previous vid, overcoming obstacles unseen at the start are as satisfying as the finish itself. Thanks for the infotainment. Much appreciated.

David Voss

The first time I rode more than 40 miles, I rode 140 (West Houston to Galveston Beach & back — yes, I know it’s illegal on a bike — this was the 90s!).

I did it about 10 times; the last time I had such a tailwind on the way out, I did it in 2:45…but then I had to come back…over 6 hours fighting a constant 20-25 mph headwind (it had worsened a bit).

Since I lived in Houston, I had put a 13-19 corncob on my Trek 1200, and never made it out of first gear (42/19) the whole way, often struggling to maintain 60 RPM!

Did I learn anything? Probably, but I’m not sure what.

Giordano Stramare - Photo

2y↑5

Mark, great effort and video!! It’s always great and inspiring see someone die right after an effort it reminds me on ski or swimming comp.
Question: why that insane slow cadence??

Mattia Murianni

2y↑3

Recently found this channel and I'm loving it. To better understand the greatness of Wiggins or Ganna, you need to know that while in an aero position, your power heavily decreases (but the air resistance decreases more, so you still go faster). This means that wiggins would have been able to produce much higher watts if he stayed in an upright position like you did (but would have gone less far because of drag).
Also to "defend" Capenaerts' hour record, although cycling at altitude it provides much less air resistance so you'll go faster with the same power, the heavy decrease in oxygen makes it way harder to produce that power. This means that his 330W is actually comparable to wiggins' 40. And your assumption on weight not being correlated with speed is correct, if there is no climbing weight won't make you faster or slower.

HkFinn83

On balance though the high altitude increase speed more than impacts oxygen levels for the negative, obviously or it wouldn’t be used.

Mark Stephen Phillips

2y↑6

Love the videos Mark, thanks for the motivation!

Brian Harris

Mark I love the challenges you put on yourself and for sure the humor buddy. Great job and shows! Keep suffering and peace be with you
🚴💯🥵

Luigi Santilli

2y↑15

I can’t tell if you’re talking about how seriously you’re taking this to convince us how seriously you’re taking it or to convince yourself lol.

Great job, love your stuff.

Gareth Kelly

Fantastic video Mark, only found your channel 2 weeks ago and the content is excellent just listened to the podcast you did and you came across brilliantly. Keep the videos coming mate.

Btw I love the 80s/90s movie references/cut scenes.

kuritsuke

Mark, this was by far the best video I have watched in a long time! Your comments during the test were fantastic… I am still laughing while I write this! Fantastic job!

edwardjcoad

do enjoy the dry turn of phrase! You have inspired me to get back on my bike - but on Zwift. Done a lot of road cycling in the US, UK and now NZ but now over 50, 95kg and need to get back to sub 90kg for the ski season. Winter (in NZ) approaching and looking forward to getting on the virtual road. Thanks for the videos, the info and the entertainment.

Gerard Leahy

2y↑3

Unreal Mark, fair play. I wouldn't get close to a minute at the moment, but getting better overall so it's all good 🚲👍

Lee Hyson

Epic effort Mark. You vids are always great viewing. How were you able to hold exactly 440w all the time though? Normally on Zwift the wattage fluctuates 5-10watts all the time.

Man in the north

2y↑1

As previously said, cadence... get it to around 100.
Do some runs at 90, 95, 100, 105, 110, at your preferred gearing (power) you will find the best distance is the one to stick at.

Also just as a bit of fun, do the 1 hour at that cadence with 1/2 the power. Most will still fail.

Philip Barker

2y↑1

GCN's enthusiast had a crack at Eddie Merckx's hour record, be curious to see how you'd get on in comparison. He managed just over 29.5 miles at considerably less than 440W.

Harald Doedee

I would surely go with the higher cadence, but that's how I always cycled. This is the first challenge that seems doable for a couple of minutes (to me) . The running is really bonkers, although a treadmill is easier than real life running. The rower was crazy. I could get anywhere close.

Huub Munstege

2y↑3

Great video and interesting challenge. You're right about the 'Watts/kg-thing'. That really starts to matter when you have a considerable vertical component (so in climbs). Otherwise aero-drag is the major resistance. And I guess that maybe with a higher cadence you even get further. Than you shift more to your aerobic system than pure muscle power in your legs.

David Nicholson

Disagree. Being a larger person inarguably offers a huge physiological advantage in terms of raw power output. I think it's clear Mark is rejecting this argument with his tongue firmly in his cheek.

V.M. Varga

2y↑38

Great video well done and love the humour. Feel free not to speak during the efforts!! Time to get on the concept 2 and hold the 2k world record split for as long as you can. The record is 5:35.8 so you need to hold a split of 1:24 (technical 1:23.95). It was set by an Australian rower named Josh Dunkley-Smith. He weighed about 92kgs at the time and weight is a huge factor on the rowing machine so if you are lighter let me know and I can provide some data on power to weight so you can come up with a comparable split

Mark Lewis

2y↑8

@Ivor Wrench 2km challenge is happening! VERY soon!

Ivor Wrench

@Mark Lewis loving the channel. I've just recently gotten into erging on the C2..i saw your 500m time with your son. Man i wish i had either of your power. i can't get below 1.34 (we're the same age). On many sites i see ..add 5 secs to your split for double the distance....well..you mentioned what challenges should you try......2km erg around 6'30? That would make you extremely above average!

Xavier Montet

2y↑1

@T.E.R. Sven 2.0 vs. das kälteste aller Ungeheuer weight is important because more weight = more muscle 😁 and if you're tall you have more amplitude.
@69kg you're in the lightweight category (<75kg).
The heavyweight record is 5'35'' but the lightweight is "only" (😅) 5'56''.
On the Concept2 website you can see how you rank in your weight category and age group on various distances or times (100m, 1', 500m, 2000m...).

Mark Lewis

2y↑8

@Xavier Montet I reckon I could drag that out for 503 m now 😂

Xavier Montet

2y↑2

Mark has already done a 1'24'' 500m row vs. his son, so he should be able to maintain WR pace for... around 500m 😉

Farmer Paddy

320 w for 60 minutes is phenomenal..so well done. Going to 440 is a whole diff ball game as you have discovered . I think you did excellent.. Just shows you how good wiggins is. I think you can increase your time.. you seemed shocked when you started 440. So I'd say a better warm up and loads of training intervals at 400 w . But it's a commendable effort . V strong 💪

Peter Berg

Great channel. Celebrating athletic achievements in a different angle. Love the humor. Keep up the good work

stewart featherstone

2y↑6

I will take a stab in the dark here and say that challenge really hurt. Great video Mark and if its ok by you i wont try that for myself.

Mark Philip

Amazing effort. Will need to try this myself although with a FTP of 213 I suspect I'll be lucky to make a minute! What about a fastest known time (FKT) attempt for the next challenge? Lots of runnimg FKTs to have a crack at!

Jasper Squire

2y↑1

How about the 'Vitor Belfort Challenge'? Vitor was one of the many athletes in the UFC who had to stop taking TRT under the new UFC drug rules. Despite his physique melting away he still got back in the Octagon. So rather than competing in MMA (a bit dangerous), you could do an Ultra or some such in a race held under WADA rules. BTW: I’m enjoying your content - you’ve inspired me to do a Park Run.

Matthew Benger

As I was (one of at least) the people to mention watts/kg I appreciate the shout out! 😄 You are 100% right about it on the flat, so it wasnt really a relevent point. Its compared all the time for cycling uphill as its obviously a big component. Class effort and just shows how insane Brad's effort was. I think the comment you made about his aero position just intensifies the craziest of the effort.

David Nicholson

Terrific stuff. It's great to see you put yourself out there with good humor.

Josef Angeria

Hey Mark, have you done the 20 min effort ftp-test in zwift? I think that warmup is the best ive seen so far. Its quite tough but you get some minutes before your 20min effort, and by then you hit high Watts and get surprised by the light feeling in your legs. Cheers from Sweden

Rachael Shaw

You raise a really good point about the running. There would be a way to measure body mass vs pace as a metric surely, & then apply it to yourself. Even if it's just a ongoing goal.. right?
I think that would make a good video

Eoin Kelly

2y↑47

Wiggins weighed 69Kg and held a pretty aggressive position on the pursuit bars, by all accounts it's much harder to attain the same power numbers in that position than road drop bars

Eoin Kelly

2y↑2

@Daz555 thank you for this, I completely forgot to consider that.

Daz555

Wiggins weighed 69kg in his Tour winning form where it was all about not losing to the climbers in the mountains. He was a a lot heavier by the time he did the hour record in 2015 - well on his way to the 83kg he was by the time he won gold in the Team Pursuit in 2016.

The Tiny Moss Beetle

2y↑1

Moving an object of 69kg with 440 watts is completely different than moving a 100kg object with the same amount of watts. I normally weigh 78-80 kg, when I weigh 85 i'm faster on the stationary bike. But definitely not on the road.

Muc McMuco

Not too sure, the UCI banned Tri bars in the track team sprint. Those boys were banging out well over 1KW in the aero bar position because it was faster and could put more power down.

jamieab13

2y↑12

@ynotnilknarf39 that’s not what his comment was getting at… having your body lower in a more aero position makes it harder to pedal efficiently given the angle at your hips.

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Chuck

2y↑1

Never lose that sense of humor mate. Like Greg Lemond said, cycling doesn't get any easier you just go faster.

Richard Mocnik

Hey Mark! May I ask you what your P-max during an incremental stress test is?

Scott Tacchi

2y↑1

ABSOLUTELY LOVING your posts. Please keep them coming.

Reuben Hollebon

2y↑4

Great fun Mark. You're right watts per kilo are less of an issue on the flat, i'm a bigger guy too, racing with my 65kg friends when I'm 86kg. You might want to give Sufferfest's 4dp test a go to see you're 1m, 5m, 20m and sprint power, also a sickening event to take part in.

Rahel Wijeyekoon

2y↑1

Ediconic1

I’m on holiday watching this on a sun lounger cracking up, loved it!! keep it it up Mark

Darin Horton

2y↑1

It is amazing to see how good elite athletes are - they are totally incredible.

Matthew D

2y↑1

Great effort Mark. Your lactate threshold seems the be the power level at which your legs start towards the burning sensation. 1. If you can figure that out, you can figure out what power you can sustain. 2. I want to hear your "lactate" jokes. 👍😁

Tariq

great job... you did better than i thought you would. i thought 2:30 and you'd be done

David Ho

2y↑1

You absolute hero!!! Well done!! Yes standing is cheating. It only when you see people trying to match these elite athletes that you really appreciate the difference in our level of performance! Didnt see your marathon video but will go and find it.

GCN enthusiast is Ollie Bridgewood, I think he's only 68kg so definitely not big.

P.s. well done for beating Chir Pritchard as he was an Team GB track sprinter so no slouch on a bike!

swites

Great effort getting over 4mins! I'm a much lighter guy at 69kgs and my best looking at my strava power curve is only for 2min15. Only 57min 45 to go! lol Just crazy how strong the top guys are though! Most people have no idea just how hard they're going, because they make it look so easy.

kyle bohannon

I've never paid attention to the power I've generated throughout my workouts on the bike we have here at work, I just try to maintain a 22-23 MPH speed for an hour and after that hour I can tell you I'm pretty gassed lol

Krawallkind

love your videos mark. keep em coming :)

Andy Incognito

Wow, I’m in awe. My indoor cycling bike from Kaiser shows about an 1h average of 150W or so. I might be able to hold for a few minutes in the 250 range but then I need to slow down.

Geoff Woods

Brilliant, loved it! Well done and well above average 👏

Krede

2y↑2

You just have to keep in mind that Wiggins didn’t push 440 watts from start to finish, but averaged 440, by pacing his effort. Pacing is key

Greensky1973

Hi Mark, have you had any injuries you've had to overcome? Any knee trouble such as a torn meniscus?

Rick Jagger

2y↑1

Great video and you’ve no airflow so that’s gonna make it harder for you too! But keep in mind Wiggins being in an aeroplane position, probably makes it 10% harder than sitting upright.

Xavier Montet

2y↑3

Mark Lewis

2y↑2

A row is definitely on the cards

Iron Dan

This is one of the funniest things I’ve watched. Just love your commentary Mark 👍 awesome

H A A

2y↑1

Kudos to you mate, it's a tough challenge and you did remarkably well for a non-cyclist.

On the flat you have a bigger body impacting against the air, that's the major difference between Campenaerts' and Wiggin's hour record, 20cm in height. In your case it's not only the height but the "wide" your body is. Wiggins is much thinner in proportion to his height compared to Campenaerts than you are compared to Wiggins and yet he was doing 30% more watts to achieve close to the same result. If you're 10cm taller than Wiggins, with your complexion, I'd say you'd have to be doing around 550 to 600w to beat them, which is bonkers, and that's using the same bike, kit and having trained your position in a wind tunnel like they had.

Don't judge on appearances, the enthusiast guy from GCN looks like a Fred but he's actually quite fit. Although he is more "specialised" on endurance rides and climbing, he would totally smash you even on the flat hehehe

Mark Evans

2y↑1

Should you try the 24hr zwift ride as also attempted by the GCN presenter Hank? Would be considered an ultra bike ride effort!!!

CrucialCrossout

I found it's easier if you aim for 390 than pick it gradually than do some spikes of 450 for every so often than back down to 400ish. It's more about finding your rhythm.

FUJITRACK10

Did you use similar gearing to wiggins? I think he used 58/14 and let’s not forget he had to slow the bike himself as well.Makes the output even more impressive.

burnsideisback

I'm 3 mins in and I think he's underestimating how hard this is going to be to get even 5 mins of this done.

Ben Donkin

I think this has a lot to do with the fact that once you cross your lactate threshold power (i think you said you did 320Watts) the lactic acid accumulates exponentially. The relationship isn’t linear here, there is a line, and when it is crossed, pain ensues and then…death

Chris Wren

Mark, as a beast on a bike and a great runner, you should deffo have a go a cyclo-cross this winter.

Try a muddy race, will be a challenge and one hell of a workout.

Rob Sampson

2y↑1

Great video thanks. Armstrong's 30 minute climb up the madone at a average of 500 watts,7 watts a kilo would be good to watch.
Is there going to be a swimming video?

Omnis

300 lbs and I've done 8 spinning sessions about once per week trying to be more fit. The only info we're given is watts and the cadence is set to whatever silly song they play, while they take you through different watt ranges through the song. Doing anything beyond 300 watts is an ass-kicker, can't imagine sustaining 400. I do find it's easier to maintain at 70-80 cadence. Doing it at 30 or 40 is a slog. Haven't managed to go that hard for a whole song. Bravo, Mark. Enjoying your channel.

dew_reg

I suggest looking at your maximum power curve in Garmin. It’s a good way to understand that perceived effort and power output is far from linear. Great video to watch !

Mo

Concerning the heartrate, for me personally I need a really intense warmup for something like Zwift Racing League to even be able to get it to 185 bpm+.

Joseph Dunbar

2y↑1

I just did my bike interval training for the day…..8 zone 7 or max power for 30 seconds with 3 minute recovery’s between efforts. My 30 second wattage was approximately 650 watts per thirty seconds. I thought I’d throw up. But no pain no gain

Boerboel Mummy

Now that looked tough. Great effort though Mark.

W S

Brilliant hahaha... I saw also on GCN where one of their presenters climbed Alp d'Huez and then Alp d'Zwift and compared their times.. which were similar.
How about seeing how far you could get up Alp d'Zwift holding the same power as the KOM for Alp d'Huez. I'd watch that :)

Raymond Hollans

2y↑1

I'd be interested to see how you do on a 20min ftp test. 440 for 16min is crazy!

Trent Clowater

@Raymond Hollans Still more than I could do. I’m about the same size/weight and I tried this after the GCN video came out. Died right at 3:00.

Raymond Hollans

@Trent Clowater oh..... I didn't finish the video

Trent Clowater

Actually it was 440 for 4:06 (as he says in the video). The first 12:00 was warmup/recover.

Glen Borch

I need to be cold to do that. Only for around a minute. 320watt's FTP is the eventual goal (I'm somewhere between 198w and 250w depending how it's measured) , but where running at a HR of 170bpm is easy for an hour, 170bpm is my maximum cycling. It was impressive.

James Belcher

I watched Wiggo do that in 2015. One of the most interesting hours of my life.

Anthony Booth

2y↑1

Great content as always 👍💪

Kaydan music

See how long you can hold Ward Lemmelijn pace for in 2000m row. Yoh could link a concept 2 up to EXR (Zwift for Rowing) as I think Ward uses ghat platform.

The other thing is the GCN enthusiast (Ollie) recorded a time up a long climb on Rouvy (like Zwift but different) you could race him up there!

Hutepi

2y↑2

Great motivation, Great video thanks

sillstars

Great challenge! You want a new one, try do something with Nils Van der Poel's 10000 meter skating record from the Olympics, how hard is it to do sliding for 12 minutes and 30 seconds?

Elliot Green

This is soo good. I’m gonna try this in the summer. It is actually a joke what wiggins did. I almost still don’t believe it.

Randy Huggins

I commented a few months back that a 29 March GCN video pointed me toward the GCN pro being Si Richardson. I just watched a more recent GCN episode where they showed that the pro holding 440W for 45-ish minutes was actually 6'8" Conor Dunne in his first "appearance" on GCN. Either that, or GCN is engaging in a subterfuge campaign to keep the pro's identity an actual secret. [Conor is reportedly 88 kg, so 5 w/kg for 45 minutes - still wow]

MonoPrime

2y↑1

Mark I think the argument about W/KG also involves the aspect that your ‘levers’ are longer as a result of being taller (generally, obviously you have people on either end of the spectrum). Generally longer levers increases the amount of power you can generate (Power being a physical quantity, algebraically, Work = Force * change in Distance and Power = Work/second); I’m sure you’re also aware that Force is the result of Force = Mass * Acceleration. So being taller and heavier provides not just the advantage in Force that results from a greater mass moved at the same speed, but also an advantage in the amount of power that a given force can output as a result of longer levers providing a ‘larger distance vector’.

I don’t necessarily think that this plays nearly as large of a role in cycling as it does for running as in the video you mentioned. We know from scientific analysis of world class runners in short distance categories that there are really 4 major factors involved with top speed: Churn rate (steps/second), stride length (distance/step), force with which the foot is pressed into the ground (Newton’s 3rd law informs us that this results in an equivalent force propelling the runner away from the ground - Force downward/step), and finally, force efficiency (how efficient the force transfer from factor 3 is in propelling the athlete forward). In order of importance, in which elite sprinters distinguish themselves, generally we have: factor 3 (force/step) >> factor 1 (steps/second) > factor 2 (distance/step) >> factor 4 (force efficiency).

All of the last paragraph is to suggest that at least in the case of sprinting short distances, which is generally a fairly effective measurement of human power output that is not biased towards anything in particular, likely falling only behind swimming - being taller and heavier is advantageous so long as the losses to churn rate aren’t effected, which is extremely rare. Middle and long distance running is generally opposite way - being taller and heavier are disadvantageous. The longer levers and greater application of force possible and therein required to move a certain speed is completely outweighed by the energy losses from having to apply a greater force and move longer and therefore heavier levers.

The reason for the good-faith flak (if it was in good-faith, i’m sure lots of it wasn’t) might only be because with running it’s very difficult to get a specific Power measurement in something semi-appreciable by the average person, such as Watts (although I’m sure if you wrote it as Joules/second it would cause some confusion). Whereas with cycling it’s literally as easy as measuring the weight and any internal applied resistance of the flywheel that is being moved by the person and then measuring the distance per cycle of the flywheel and counting how many times it goes around in a circle to get the Work being done by the person - then you take that amount and divide it by the number of seconds that the work is being done for and voila you have the specific power output of the person.

Rich Crompton

Lol! Another cracking video. Cadence is key on things like this. Faster is better, but it does require great cardio strength, which you no doubt have. Connor, the GCN Pro is also a tall guy, but he is a bean pole. I’m not sure he’d be lifting anywhere near what you do, but he can pedal efficiently as that is what he was paid to do. How about an indoor rowing challenge? WR 2Km time? How do you stack up? Fairly well probably...

Martin Edward

2y↑5

Your right working in watts/kg is only realy in effect when climbing, apart from being fantastically fit Bradley has a very low CdA from his size and the ability hold a tight aero position for over an hour comfortably while putting out huge numbers, while us mere mortals would probably be crippled for life if we tried that position with those power numbers. Love the content mate, glad it's you and not me trying these things out. 😀😀

Chris Ransome

Was working in Wales recently near Brecon Beacons. Whilst researching hiking routes I came across something called the ‘Fan Dance’. Looks very funky and although I’m nowhere near even the beginnings of being capable, I’m now thinking(dreaming) about training up to have a go at it next year. Sounds like a event that would be right up your alley? Might make for a good series on your channel.

Anvil Airsoft TV

2y↑1

@Mark Lewis would be a good one. It’s part of SAS selection.

Mark Lewis

2y↑2

Going to look it up!

Ash D

2y↑4

Mark Lewis You legend, Keep riding, Keep running, Keep roasting and keep the science coming

Shep Shape

The only advice I would have given you for this test would have been to pick a flat course, such as Tempus Fugit. I say this because trying to maintain a high wattage going downhill is considerably more difficult than on a flat road or going uphill. The only way to negate that effect on Zwift would be to set your trainer to OFF on the hill realism setting (whatever that's actually called on there). Just as in real life, it's much easier to put out watts going uphill than downhill thanks to inertia and gravity. Great effort though.

Kelly Mckenzie

Let's also remember that the hour record is done in a full horizontal tuck.

Jeremy Cross

2y↑1

Extremely great effort! The goal you had was to see how long you could hold 440w; w/kg does matter more when climbing but only in relation to speed. You weren't trying to match his speed only his power, which you achieved. However if you want to match his effort, you'll have to match his w/kg.

David Nicholson

Yup.

Go Humberto!

It was Wiggo's record that led me into Wattbike classes. I had to know what those numbers felt like.
I raised my FTP a lot during those classes over a few years and would be happy with 4 mins at 400Watts.
My 20 minute threshold was 301Watts but, as you say, it's not a linear feeling.
100Watts is nothing, like freewheeling, 200Watts is sustainable, 300Watts is fine for 10 minutes but took me to the point of collapse after 20 mins.
440 watts is something I add into my training as a 10 second spike.
Basically holding onto 440 Watts, in a perfect aero tuck, on a single-speed fixie isn't even human. But then again no world beating athlete is like other humans.

>>>>Try the Long-Jump, or High-Jump. The records for those are just as mind bending.

James&Sylvia Syracuse-Little

If you want to do an update to this video would for you and Jen to do this together and see how long you can jointly keep up with his wattage I.e. how long can (Mark + Jen) > 450 Watts last?

Charles McFarlane

Lololol. Both my very unfit wife and i relating to not feeling legs after a hard cycle from when we were still fit. Well done on a great channel Mark! we appreciate your relatability. Eat more Donuts!

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