Get a professional coaches big picture overview of your training with recommendations that will help you optimize your own training plans for the next 3 months. We'll do an intake of your current fitness based on the power files we review, and then make recommendations based on the goals that you discuss with us. This is basically a double check to make sure you're on the right path with your own training.

Power File Analysis Steps

Create your personal TrainingPeaks (TP) account (if you don't already have one). This can be either a premium or free account.
Import your power data into your TP account from wherever you currently organize it. Pro tip: A bulk .gpx file export from Strava will include ALL of your power & heartrate data.
Click “Start Power File Analysis” button below. That will allow you to connect your Training Peaks account to Evoq.
One of our coaches from the EVOQ team will reach out to you via email to send our athlete questionnaire for you to fill out and return. The questions help to frame you as a complete athlete and are necessary to provide a meaningful analysis.
We will then email you a private link to your PFA video. You then watch the video and become faster! If you're interested in pursuing some coaching - great. But there is no obligation.

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Why a Power File Analysis?

The main goals of the analysis are to:

Benchmark your performance level versus your peers
Compare yourself to your theoretical self using the software’s algorithms
Look at your Performance Manager and see how you build and prepare for events
Circle back after reviewing the training to see if it will actually help you reach your goals

You Versus Your Peers, Power Duration Curve Profile

Taking a look at yourself versus your peers based on watts/kg. This simply give you a rough estimate of some weaknesses to consider, but at the end of the day, you want to make sure you’re not only training weaknesses, but addressing the demands of your A-priority races.

This athlete has a great kick for up to 10s, but then starts to fade from 30s to 1m30s to a Category 4 level. But, her watts for VO2Max efforts of 3m to 8m are at a Cat 2 level!!

She levels out around Cat 3 for 25 minutes out to 2 hours.

If she wants to be a crit racer, she’ll need to bump up that 30s to 1m30s power, in terms of raw watts, but also repeatability. It’s great if she can get the watts up for one effort, but she’ll need them higher overall.

Using this chart lets us find out where you are weakest, and then compare that to your training.

Are you addressing your Achille’s heel?

You Versus Yourself, The Power Duration Curve

This graph will nitpick, but it’s these small details that reconfirm our findings above on some clear weaknesses to get after immediately.

The red line is the Modeled Power Duration Curve; said differently, it’s what wattages the computer algorithms think you should be able to produce at different durations.

The yellow line is the Measured Power Duration Curve, or what you’ve done within the past 90 days (or whatever time period you select, but 90 days is the gold standard right now. Occasionally we’ll look at 30 days but that’s a different blog post.)

Where the yellow line is below the red line is areas to quickly go after. As you perform better than the yellow, the red model will change. You constantly can find new places to improve; but, don’t chase the rabbit that isn’t headed to the podium. Always come back to training physiological systems that are applicable to your race. If you’re trying to win the State Time Trial but your weakness is sprinting, don’t do just sprints to chase that red line!

Makes sense, right?

This athlete need to really hone into the 40-60s area and event specific/rider style specific 20m plus.

Cycling Performance Manager Chart

Lastly, the Performance Manager Chart. I was hesitant to include this, so make sure you read this blog about not obsessing over CTL, here and here.

While there is more to riding and racing than just the metrics, taking a look at how the athlete builds fitness is a good indicator of what types of rides they are doing, as well as giving us a look at whether they are resting enough.

I’m a big fan of 3 weeks on, 1 week off, so that you can build your CTL up, and then allow it to dip back under the ATL while you are resting. This is “coming up for air”, and your TSB becomes positive.

This will change if you have a race, since you won’t be building up right to the race. You need to reduce the training for a few days (intensity and/or duration) which allows the Fatigue (ATL) to drop (increasing your Freshness), along with a slight drop in CTL (Fitness), but not so much that you lose a ton of fitness and capability to perform at your best.

This rider has a solid build (Blue Arrow) where you see a nice ATL above the CTL and Fitness is rising. A rest period follows so that the training can be absorbed; great!

The green arrow could be something like an extended vacation away from the bike. While coming into the 40’s for TSB is not ideal, if you go away for a couple weeks and can’t ride, it is what it is. You’ll come back, ease into the training, and you’ll be crushing it again in a week or so.

It’s also a good habit to get out of the trees and see the forest. Take a look at your current Year To Date. It will help tell some more story. Are there peaks and valleys? You can’t aways just be ripping it. In the same way that you need to go slow to go fast in a microcycle, you need to ease up and let the body rejuvenate season to season, and truly GROW.

Want To Get Faster?

Accomplish the following by taking advantage of our Power File Analysis:

Better understand your strengths and weaknesses
See How You Compare To Your Peers
See How You Compare to Your Theoretical Self
See If You Are Building Fitness Properly
Have A Clearer Roadmap To Your Goals

Power File Analysis Testimonials

“Brendan, thanks for the feedback! You've gone above and beyond what I had expected by reaching out to you and I'm really grateful. Everything you had to say was very helpful and I will certainly use these tips as key points in my training in the coming months. I agree with you that more endurance rides will certainly do me some good and will definitely implement that into my plan. -Brian

That was awesome. I think you told me more about what I need to focus on in 20 minutes then I've learned in the last 5 years of on/off training and reading articles. It makes me feel reassured that we can tailor a program that is focused on improving weaknesses and optimizing my time on the bike.

This is all gold, seriously thank you for taking the time to do this. I will definitely incorporate this into my training plan with the variance in intervals and bringing the lifting back. I know that's only going to make my training more focused. It's awesome hearing your insight into these races here since you have direct experience with them. I'm planning to continue to do as many of them as I can this summer. I can keep you updated with how they go!

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