rubik wrote:
You guys have some seriously strange notions of "not awesome" and the like. 4300+ kJ on one day of a 3 week tour, during the course of a 5 hour, 4.6 w/kg onslaught. That's an insane workload. Utterly insane. No one here could even remotely come close to something like that on the best day of their life.
I feel that should be brazenly obvious, yet two different posters...
Just that given the focus on watts/kg and the limits of a non-juiced human, I thought 5 watts/kg in the tour seemed relatively mild compared to the 6+ from the Giro and Vielta. Either this year's Giro was a much harder race or the Tour is being ridden more conservatively with more riders focusing on a top 10 place.
It is not like Rolland's ride on stage 17 of the Giro wasn't further into a grand tour, he won the first 2 KOMs, made the 20 rider split, and put out 400+ watts for the last 8K
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grumpier.mike: Jul 12, 17 16:45