I was having a discussion with one my off-road athletes this morning about the type of power required for mountain bike and cyclocross races. With her focus in these disciplines, we're working on not only bring up her steady-state power, but also her ability to repeatedly 'punch it' with hard anaerobic efforts and short recovery in between. The timing of this works out nicely because I have some fresh data from a race that really demonstrates what's required for success in of