XC Power Profiles

Hi,
Does anyone know what a good power profile should look like for an XC racer? I've invested in a power meter for training this winter and just completed my power profile as detailed in the Coggan/Allen book. The profiles they give are designed more for road racers and track racers.
My wattage ranked notably lower for my 5 second and 1 minute power compared to my 5 minute + FTP readings. Is this normal for XC? I appreciate given the time of year I've likely lost more top end than bottom end since racing finished in early August, but it still seems a big gap. Are those short sprint durations critical in XC, and will working on them give noticeable gains to race performance?
Thanks for any info and advice which will be gratefully received!
Does anyone know what a good power profile should look like for an XC racer? I've invested in a power meter for training this winter and just completed my power profile as detailed in the Coggan/Allen book. The profiles they give are designed more for road racers and track racers.
My wattage ranked notably lower for my 5 second and 1 minute power compared to my 5 minute + FTP readings. Is this normal for XC? I appreciate given the time of year I've likely lost more top end than bottom end since racing finished in early August, but it still seems a big gap. Are those short sprint durations critical in XC, and will working on them give noticeable gains to race performance?
Thanks for any info and advice which will be gratefully received!
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Of course having a big engine will help too, I know an elite MTB rider, he's a decent time trialist too, so not that you can't have decent engine AND ability in XC but I should imagine his repeatable short duration ability is very good.
If so, probably not much of a weak sport, if you are not, then why not? And if you're getting dropped badly, when does that happen?
I would imagine it would be fairly flat as a profile, in that they're unlikely to be knocking out 1500w peak, but probably have decent short term stuff, and a decent overall engine, the guy I know has an FTP around 380W.
While it may not feel like the longer term numbers mean as much in the context of a race, the bigger the capacity, the less those efforts tax you. Obviously that's fairly top line, but I've managed to brute my way around some pretty horrible sprinty crits where my cornering has meant I've been using much more energy than others to stay with, but just by being able to sprint again and again as I can recover quick enough I've been there at the end to sprint still.
I use TrainingPeaks to keep track of that info with the riders on power meters that I coach.
Feel free to send a power file from a race you've done with a few details I.e. Age, category, track to me and I'll see if I can provide a bit of feedback for you.
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